We don’t know about you, but we think Party Over Here might serve Fox very well in the coming weeks as a sketch comedy show.
Case in point: this sketch where cast member Alison Rich gives uploading her consciousness online a try only to find that she’s probably not ready for the singularity.
Late Night with Seth Meyers’ Conner O’Malley does his latest and greatest work by playing a throughly troubled man who just happens to be an overly enthusiastic supporter of presidential candidate Donald Trump.
O’Malley has now done this a number of times, but seemingly few Trump supporters, as you might imagine, seem to be keen to what he’s up to.
As the boy band formula continues to be successful throughout the decades, there has been parodies of boy bands right there following along. You might remember Conan’s Dudez-a-Plenti or MTV’s 2Ge+her as some of notable examples.
In 2016, Brett Davis of the subversive, meta, absurdist talk show, The Special Without Brett Davis, writes and stars in a new, similarly toned boy band parody in the IFC web series simply called Boy Band.
NYC comedy folks including Anna Drezen, Jo Firestone, Ana Fabrega, Julio Torres (who also co-wrote a good deal of the series), John Early, and more round out a great cast.
There are six episodes in total and you might not look at boy bands, or any reality show endeavor for that matter, the same way afterwards.
Or, if you have a pretty dark view on the music industry, maybe this would just redouble your feelings about the whole boy band model.
Either way, you should watch the whole series here.
Technology is only making the cost of transportation lower and lower everyday. Whose to say that air fare wouldn’t get to Uber prices eventually so long as you’re willing to put up with Uber Pool standards for flying?
Fox’s late night sketch show Party Over Here dreams up what that might be like with Flyte and why you might (or might not) want to take advantage of it.
The literally game changing halftime speech is a requirement for all sports movie.
When it comes to a satirical series following HS teachers barely getting by, the halftime speech probably doesn’t get a team riled up at all.
Watch such a speech from Those Who Can’t’s Andy Fairbell.
Not Safe with Nikki Glaser continues their run of great, kinky stunts by riffing on Jerry Seinfeld’s award winning Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, but opting for sitting on vibrators instead of sitting in a car.
Nikki’s former Nikki and Sara Live and podcast You Had To Be There co-host Sara Schaefer joins in on the endeavor.
Watch what happens here.
If it was never clear to you before how desperate a situation may be when sending out the very suggestive text message “You up?” to someone that you’re not seeing/dating, Man Seeking Woman hits the point home perfectly.
As hosts of yesterday’s Film Independent Spirit Awards, Kate McKinnon and Kumail Nanjiani engaged in the classic movie awards tradition of ribbing and parodying the movies that were nominated.
Their pedigree of SNL, Portlandia, and Silicon Valley served them well, especially with their great send-up of Carol. Watch it here.
Really, it’s almost inexplicable that Donald Trump keeps winning in the primary election.
Well, that is the case until you watch Andy Haynes present all the other sorts of non-sensical and despicable people that comprise all the segments of Trump’s fanbase.
Watch and understand who wants Trump’s version of making America great again.
The cast of Seeso’s new series Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ stepped aside from playing the various cutthroat people in the world of bajillion dollar real estate to show us all how to truly craft comedy.
Note: the making of craft comedy might differ from the making of comedy that you’re familiar with.
You still get actual, physical mail these days. Thus, you should heed Tony Sam’s warning of why you shouldn’t mess with the person delivering said mail, whether this actually happens frequently or not.
If nothing else, please enjoy how great Tony can be while apathetically delivering letters.
The line between reality and parody keeps getting more and more blurred.
CNN’s Brooke Baldwin sat down and chatted with Donald Trump and Senator Bernie Sanders as played by Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian and was so dazzled by their impressions that she wasn’t quite sure how to go about the interview and whether to talk the characters or the players behind them.
Either way, seeing Trump vs. Bernie on CNN is a pretty solid win for us all.
One of LA’s longest running midnight comedy shows hosted by one of LA’s comedy treasures, Ron Lynch, does a delightfully mutated version of The Dating Game in Hook-Up!
Whether you’re into Valentine’s Day or believe that it’s a corporate mandated holiday that constricts us all into the idea of monogamy, it’s great to see a dating game that pits someone looking for love around a bunch of crazy people.
Catch it this Saturday night at midnight, Feb. 13th at Trepany House @ Steve Allen Theater. $8.
For complete LA comedy show listings and corresponding maps, please visit www.thecomedybureau.com
Honestly, we’re surprised that Carolina Panthers QB Cam Netwon walking out of the post Super Bowl press conference after his defeat isn’t more of a meme that the Internet has reveled in.
Either way, Conan does a pretty great job of sending up Newton and walk out that will probably haunt him forever.
With Larry David hosting last night’s SNL, it’s imperative that the show do something involving Larry’s HBO series Curb Your Enthusiasm and/or Larry as Bernie Sanders, since he was such a hit doing it the first time this season.
Thus SNL checked off two boxes with one Bern Your Enthusiasm.
It definitely plays more like an episode of Curb than a Bernie Sanders sketch, but, ehh, you’re probably ok with that.
The impression that Drew Droege does of renowned actress and model Chloe Sevigny has almost grown into an entire life of its own.
Just see for yourself in this latest transmission from Chloe, “Model”.
Ever the clever trickster of a comedian, the UK’s Peter Serafinowicz has painstakingly dubbed various Trump interview and speech clips with both cockney and posh British accents, showing that he sounds ridiculous no matter how you spin it.
It could be a hardened cockney accent…
…or one that is quite refined sounding and it still sounds like there’s good grounds to ban Trump from the UK.
For those that want a sarcastic geriatric in their greeting cards, Hallmark has kept the sassy and somewhat unfiltered character Maxine going for quite some time.
In the style of a gritty real life adaptation of a comic book, Natalie Palamides and Drew Spears, who continue to keep it delightfully weird in their comedy, have brought Maxine to life and, guess what, she’s still not to jazzed about anything.
Watch nine short episodes of Maxine here.
Man Seeking Woman takes the idea that you would need grit like some hardened detective on a police procedural in order to confidently ask someone out, in person no less, and makes into a reality, complete with all the police procedural trappings.
While this becomes more and more of a reality, the parody of a Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders as played respectively by Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian presidential debate is well on its way to touring across these great United States.
If all that we’ve posted about the duo going head-to-head with pretty much the best impressions of either candidate that we’ve seen hasn’t gotten you hyped up for the tour, watch this trailer.
Then, peruse the dates below and go get your tickets for the Trump vs. Bernie tour.
JANUARY 30TH LOS ANGELES, CA 11:00 PM
FEBRUARY 2ND MADISON, WI 8:30 PM
FEBRUARY 3RD MINNEAPOLIS, MN 8:00 PM
FEBRUARY 4TH CHICAGO, IL 8:00 PM
FEBRUARY 5TH BURLINGTON, VT 9:30 PM
FEBRUARY 6TH BURLINGTON, VT 9:30 PM
FEBRUARY 8TH PORTSMOUTH, NH 7:30 PM
FEBRUARY 8TH MANCHESTER, NH 10:00 PM
FEBRUARY 10TH BOSTON, MA 8:00 PM
FEBRUARY 12TH NEW YORK, NY 8:00 PM
FEBRUARY 15TH PHILADELPHIA, PA 8:00 PM
FEBRUARY 18TH WASHINGTON, DC 8:00 PM
FEBRUARY 29TH AUSTIN, TX 7:30 PM
For probably as long as any of us can remember, the traditional Christmas song “The 12 Days of Christmas” just plays everywhere every December even though the amount of gifts you’d have to give to actually pull off what the song’s lyrics suggest are utterly absurd.
To hit that point home, Reggie Watts, James Corden, and The Late Late Show pulled off this bit.
In 2015, these aren’t just your kids’ Star Wars action figures and the ads for such merchandise should reflect that.
SNL did a pretty great job hitting all the target demos for Star Wars toys for this day and age.
Esteemed film critic Elvis Mitchell has made a name for himself for years through his insights on cinema at NPR and KCRW. With that, his voice, look, and persona capture a certain spirit of dry, high brow film theory discussions.
For Channel 101, DeMorge Brown sent up Elvis Mitchell in a faux interview series called ScreenShots with Elvis Mitchell that is, well, what it’d be like you were watching an Elvis Mitchell interview while tripping on acid.
Even if you’re not familiar with Mitchell or Channel 101, you can agree that more one-on-one interviews should be as otherworldly as they are here.
You’re already out shopping on Black Friday. Adding two comedy albums to whatever else you’re buying will be a bonus.
Both Jon Benjamin’s experimental jazz album, “Jazz Daredevil: Well, I Should Have*” where he doesn’t know how to play piano and attempts to play along side professional jazz musicians and Greg Proops’ latest stand-up album “In The Ball Park” both dropped today.
If anything, they should offer a great soundtrack to wade through the masses as your taking advantage of the leftovers of doorbuster deals today.
Get Jazz Daredevil, Well, I Should Have* from Sub Pop and In The Ball Park on iTunes or on vinyl from AST Records.
While Seeso is a highly anticipated comedy subscription service from NBC, it would also seem that it’s an ancient, very secret society for only the highest order of comedians.
Just watch Thomas Lennon, Robert Ben Garant, Kulap Vilaysack, Cameron Esposito, Rhea Butcher, and Jonah Ray kinda sorta let us all know what’s up with this thing called Seeso.
Don’t forget that a Beta version will be free for us all on December to get us all hooked before we “join in”.