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TCB Debriefing 8/2/23: Dreaming Whilst Black, Barbie in Middle East, Reservation Dogs, Caitlin Cook

August 2, 2023

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1. First look at Showtime’s new UK dramedy, Dreaming Whilst Black, from Adjanai Salmon here. If you’ve been dreaming of Insecure with British accents, you might want to get into this starting Sun. Sept. 10th at 10PM on Showtime.

2. Barbie might be banned in the Middle East because, well, it’s probably too queer (and everything) for them (Variety), but actually might surpass that $1 billion mark that Margot Robbie dreamed of at the box office in the next few days (Deadline). That means Barbie might be the most commercially successful Oscar winner since LOTR, even without Middle East box office receipts.

3. A friendly neighborhood reminder that the critically acclaimed, award winning Reservation Dogs is back for its third and final season starting tonight on FX/Hulu.

4. The best show you’ll ever see about bathroom graffiti, The Writing’s on the Stall from Caitlin Cook is set to make it’s Off-Broadway debut at the SoHo Playhouse on Wednesdays-Saturdays in September. You will never look at bathroom art the same way ever again. Go get tix right now right here.

5. Stand-up comedy crowd work needs to evolve past asking “Where are you from?” and “What do you do for a living?”

TCB Debriefing 7/25/23: Comedy Store Paid Regulars, Strange Planet, Rachel Bloom, Poor Things, Craig Ferguson, Sam Bee

July 25, 2023

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1. The Comedy Store just celebrated Names Night, christening their latest round of Paid Regulars. That includes Dulce Sloan, Luke Schwartz, Hormoz Rashidi, Saul Trujillo, Matt Lockwood, Dave Waite, King Congdon, Sara Weinshenk, Bruce Gray, Shapel Lacey, Laura Peek, Amy Miller, and Quincy Weekley.

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2. Strange Planet, the webcomic sensation turned best selling book is now going to be the latest reason that you’ll have to go in on if you don’t already have it. See for yourself with the first official trailer here with what might be the best comic adaptation we’ve seen in quite some time (yes, that does mean shots fired at MCU and DCEU).

3. Rachel Bloom set the TV world ablaze with the beautifully genre-bending, hilarious Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, and is set to do the same with her one-woman musical comedy, Death, Let Me Do My Show at the Lucille Lortel Theatre, Off Broadway (Deadline). Bloom’s time on Broadway or on Off-Broadway is far past due. Previews begin Sept. 6th, so you best watch for tickets on her socials very soon.

4. Poor Things, the latest work from one of the great comedy auteurs of our time, Yorgos Lanthimos, will be an early holiday gift as the release date just got pushed back to Dec. 8th (Collider).

5. A mockumentary feature about producers not getting their act together gets a SAG-AFTRA waiver to move forward with production (Deadline). Can’t imagine this being done without addressing the strike and AMPTP.

6. A brand new podcast for iHeart simply called, Joy, marks the official entry of once late night talk show mainstay Craig Ferguson into the podcast realm (even though he did a SiriusXM radio show that you could listen to like a podcast online). Just a polite reminder here that some of the best interviews and monologues in late night came from Ferguson and CBS barely put any of it on YouTube.

7. Though Full Frontal has been gone from TBS for some time now, Samantha Bee is still front and center with her current live show Your Favorite Woman: The Joys of Sex Education. If you’re just hearing about it for the first time, fret not, as she has just extended her tour by adding 17 more dates in North America (Deadline).

8. Speaking of late night, it’s undeniable that there’s a bit of a void without topical jokes being delivered in some fashion on a nightly basis by someone who isn’t Greg Gutfeld.

Chris Gethard’s Solo Show “Career Suicide”, Now Presented by Judd Apatow, Is Going Off-Broadway

September 6, 2016

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Chris Gethard’s Solo Show “Career Suicide”, Now Presented by Judd Apatow, Is Going Off-Broadway

From UCB in NYC to Edinburgh to Off-Broadway, Chris Gethard’s Career Suicide, is the latest comedian solo show to climb its way up the ladder to Off-Broadway. Apatow’s name being attached here is another sign of the growing trend of comedians hitting Off Broadway (and even actual Broadway in the case of Oh, Hello).

Look for shows to start on October 5th at The Lynn Redgrave Theater.

John Mulaney and Nick Kroll Held an “Oh, Hello” Press Conference as George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon

December 27, 2015

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Odds are that this is the closest you’ll get to seeing Oh, Hello for awhile.

Just as an off-Broadway show, Oh, Hello, with John Mulaney and Nick Kroll as the two mischievous geriatric New Yorkers, has done quite well in its run selling out both at The Cherry Lane Theatre and doing the same at Boston’s Wilbur Theatre.

With all their success, Mulaney and—, St. Geegland and Faizon we should say, taped an entire press conference, which is probably as good as any teaser we could have gotten for the show.

You can catch a solid 5 minutes and change of it here and then watch the whole thing streamed live at MNN on Tues. Dec. 29th 5PM PST and Wed. Dec. 30th at 7PM PST.

John Mulaney and Nick Kroll Go on “Late Night with Seth Meyers” as George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon

December 18, 2015

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John Mulaney and Nick Kroll are keeping some of The Kroll Show’s most enduring characters, George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon, going, which is really a pretty great gift to us all.

Not only do they have an acclaimed off-Broadway show “Oh Hello” running at The Cherry Lane Theatre, but they made probably one of the most memorable late night appearances this year.

Fully in costume and character, St. Geegland and Faizon chatted with Seth Meyers on Late Night and Meyers could barely keep a straight face through the whole conversation.

For those of us unable to see Oh, Hello, for now, this is the next best thing.

Nick Kroll and John Mulaney Are Latest Comedian Production with “Oh, Hello” to Come to Cherry Lane Theatre Off Broadway

October 26, 2015

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The stars of Too Much Tuna (a show within The Kroll Show universe, Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland/Nick Kroll and John Mulaney are bringing their senior citizen, millennial informed antics to off-Broadway with Oh, Hello Live! on (off )Broadway.

They’ll be following the likes of Colin Quinn and The Daily Show’s Hasan Minhaj at the ever-popular-with-comedians off Broadway Cherry Lane Theatre with their run of Oh, Hello going Dec. 1st-20th.

As Oh, Hello is sold out constantly here in LA, get your tickets while you still can here.