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Watch Latest Episode of Colin Quinn’s Cop Show That Has Michael Che and More Ridiculous Procedural Tropes

March 19, 2015

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Colin Quinn’s Cop Show continues to expertly take on the real culprit in police procedural TV series: tired, hackneyed premises and writing.

This time around he has the help of Michael Che.

Perhaps, like Burning Love got on E!, Cop Show will become a show on a network that will schedule it next to episodes of Law & Order, CSI, NCIS, and all their various spin-offs.

Watch the latest episode here.

If You’re In The World of Fast Food Commercial, What Happens After The Commercials Over?

March 19, 2015

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Imagine a world where you were in a believable apartment with the perfect balance of ethnicity about to chow down on some tasty, affordable fast food.

You’re obviously in a fast food commercial, but what happens after 30 seconds when the duration of the TV spot is over? No one in the universe of CH2 knows until know

Jon Bershad and Ryan Hunter investigate this befuddling and mysterious nightmare scenario that “absolutely could happen” if you’re not careful.

Watch here and beware.

“Ménage à Trois Radio” Makes Some Great Retro Dating Profile Videos That Will Make Modern Dating Seem Slightly Less Awful

March 12, 2015

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Feeling like making an online dating profile is waste of time and are losing faith in finding love? Well, we don’t have a solution for that, but these Ménage à Trois Radio Romance Wranglers retro dating profile videos should make you feel better.

Murf Meyer and Diana Kolsky host a real steamy love and relationship show called Ménage à Trois Radio and, for some fun, they made these old school dating profile videos featuring the likes of Neil Casey, Shannon O’Neill, Connor Ratliff and so many more funny folks.

Like we said, Romance Wranglers won’t cure your troubles with Tinder or OK Cupid, but you’ll definitely will feel better knowing you could be doing worse with whoever you’re matched up with.

Watch it here, here, or more over here.

James Corden and Reggie Watts Make Sure to Soundcheck Everything in Their First Late Late Show Soundcheck

March 11, 2015

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It’s a new era of late night, so it wouldn’t hurt to make sure that every single crevice of the new Late Late Show set sounds pristine.

It’s bits like this that’ll be why the new Late Late Show host James Corden and bandleader Reggie Watts should be having a lot of unabashed silly fun.

The premiere is less than two weeks away on Mon. Mar. 23rd on CBS.

Colin Quinn Gets Cell Phone Endorsements and Jim Gaffigan on The Latest Episode of “Cop Show”

March 6, 2015

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Colin Quinn’s Cop Show continues its march to parody the oversaturation of police procedurals while also being able to poke fun at itself.

This latest episode showcases just that by having a Jim Gaffigan guest star as an African warlord then also trying to bait cell phone endorsements at the same time.

Someone, somewhere probably has behind the scenes footage of some procedural series that’s exactly like this.

Trevor Moore Makes a Country Anthem For How Ridiculous People Against Gay Marriage Are

March 2, 2015

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Trevor Moore’s new special High in Church premieres this Fri. Mar. 6th at midnight on Comedy Central, but we’ve been getting small previews here and there of the sharp, very clever satire that’s in store.

First there was a parallel universe where cats acted exactly like us and now there’s this new music video for “Gays Got Married” where Moore envisions what people against gay marriage are thinking will happen when gay marriage is passed as law.

Of course, the message seems most poignant when done as a country song.

“Wild Horses” Planning a Heist Might Be More Fun Than The Actual Heist

February 25, 2015

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The great comedy group Wild Horses (Lauren Lapkus, Stephanie Allynne, Mary Holland, Erin Whitehead) show us all that the best thing about a bank heist may not be the big life-changing pay day at the end, but, rather, it’s planning it with your best friends.

Watch their “heist” here.

After Watching “50 Shades of Grey”, Be Sure To Stop By Conan “Local Sponsor” Done Right Hardware

February 20, 2015

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Any reason to see Andrés du Bouchet in a sketch on Conan must be a good reason. Such reasons do include a 50 Shades of Grey parody involving hardware store promotions that show what you could buy and how you could use it in reenacting scenes from or inspired by the movie.

Watch it here.

Watch Colin Quinn’s Send-Up of Cop Shows in His New Web Series “Cop Show”

February 18, 2015

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Reality shows get the majority of parody send-ups these days, but that doesn’t mean other TV genres should be overlooked when it comes to poking fun at overplayed tropes.

That’s where Colin Quinn’s Cop Show over at L Studio does a bang up job of showing how ridiculous all the police, legal, and investigative procedural shows on television really are.

Watch the first episode here.

IFC Comedy Crib’s “If I Was In It” Follows The Film Criticism of Two Self-Taught Film Students

February 18, 2015

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The IFC Comedy Crib is continuing to incubate small runs of innovative, funny web series.

Their latest features Paul Laudiero and Will Stephen as two self-taught film students reviewing the classics of the cinematic canon, emphasis on “self-taught”.

Watch their review of and what they would do if “they was in” The Wizard of Oz.

Adult Swim Will Apparently Be Streaming a Daily Fish Sports Show “FishCenter Live”

February 10, 2015

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Perhaps this is an Adult Swim infomercial that we weren’t awake for over the last week or so, but Adult Swim’s FishCenter Live claims to be “…the world’s only LIVE marine-themed, call-in show. Streaming every weekday at 4PM [EST] (continuous replays start at 7P) at fishcenter.com.”

If you’re asking yourself if this is a sports show that covers sports made up by humans formatted around fish just swimming randomly around a fish tank, then ask yourself no more questions. That’s exactly what it is and when you start watching it, you’ll find, while giggling the whole way through, that you do get sort of invested in the individual fish.

Get an extended preview of it here and then supposedly stream it here weekdays at 4.

James Franco’s “Making a Scene” on AOL Mashes Up “When Harry Met Sally” with “When Harry Met Sally”

February 6, 2015

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Spinning a wheel of famous movie scenes twice led James Franco and company to mash up scenes for their AOL web series Making a Scene.

Not one to deviate from the rules, they got the fake orgasm scene from When Harry Met Sally twice and went with that.

The result? A bizarre alternate universe wonder that they come up with called When Harry Met Harry. Please enjoy here.

Colin Quinn To Satirize Cop Dramas in New Web Series “Cop Show”

February 4, 2015

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(via NY Times)

Colin Quinn is now getting into the web series game starting in at L Studio.

Starting Feb. 18th, episodes of Cop Show will start rolling out. By the sound of the title, we can definitely imagine Quinn’s series take on procedural cop dramas might be like Burning Love and Hotwives’ take on reality dating/married shows.

If anything, we’ll just be happy to see Quinn back in a series.

Please Enjoy Casablanca, The Kate McKinnon Version

February 2, 2015

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From the moment she landed in her first sketch on Saturday Night Live a few years ago, Kate McKinnon has stood out as an unabashed delight. When Kate gets to just let loose in a sketch, it’s pretty damn great.

Case in point: an “alternate” ending to cinema classic Casablanca with her playing Ilsa and JK Simmons as Rick. Watch it here.

Portlandia Has All Your Post-Nu-Found-Art Supplies at Shocking Art Store

January 29, 2015

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Looking to create an art installation that will single handedly upset the establishment with things that most people leave in their curb for garbage trucks to pick up?

Well, look no further than Portlandia’s Shocking Art Store complete with guest Shepherd Fairey.

It shouldn’t be too long before a real version of this exists if it doesn’t already.

John Oliver Makes His Audition Tape For The “50 Shades of Grey” Movie Coming to Theaters This Valentine’s Day Weekend

January 26, 2015

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Both the second season of Last Week Tonight and the film adaptation of 50 Shades of Grey are coming soon, and, as such, John Oliver thought it prudent to make an audition tape to oust the film’s star Jamie Dornan even though the movie is set for release in about three weeks.

Watch Oliver make a play for our hearts and loins here and get ready for season 2 premiering Feb. 8th at 11PM on HBO.

“Good Cop Great Cop” Plays “Dungeons & Dragons” and Manages to Make It Awkward

January 23, 2015

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When transported to a fantastical world with knights, dragons, sorcery, and more, people playing Dungeons & Dragons are usually comfortable being in their element.

Leave it to Good Cop Great Cop to find a way to inject awkwardness in what should be a nice escape in reality with weird dice.

Watch what happens here.

Brent Weinbach Makes an 1995 Ad For Facebook

January 23, 2015

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If Brent Weinbach made ads, maybe less people would click skip when they see them on YouTube.

Just watch his 1995 version of an ad for Facebook. You read that right. 1995 Facebook.

Women Comedy Show That Books Aren’t Top Priority at Book Clubs

January 20, 2015

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Women Comedy continue their run at IFC’s Comedy Crib with a new video that shows what we’re all really thinking when we’re discussing a book at a book club we’ve joined. (spoiler alert: not books)

Enjoy this sketch with great cameos from Jamie Lee, Eliza Skinner, Matt Ingebretson and then really question why you even read books in the first place.

We Hope More Police Stakeouts Are Like This One From Wild Horses

January 19, 2015

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erin whitehead, lauren lapkus, mary holland, parody, stakeout, stephanie allynne, wild horses

When police do a stakeout, a lot of waiting is involved. It’s almost too much waiting. You’d wonder what they would do after all that waiting beyond having the stereotypical existential conversations in movies and television.

Well, Wild Horses (Stephanie Allynne, Lauren Lapkus, Mary Holland, Erin Whitehead) has a pretty good idea of how to answer that query. Watch their version of a stakeout here.

Some of “The Late Show” Staffers Do Some Improv, Kind Of

January 15, 2015

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David Letterman let his staff get a loose last night by having a few of them that have formed an improv group do a scene during The Late Show.

Watch and enjoy it here and let’s hope that in these final months of Letterman’s tenure at The Late Show, he keeps up this sort of great weirdness going.

Hulu Renews “Hotwives of Orlando” For Second Season, “Hotwives of Las Vegas”

January 8, 2015

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(via Deadline)

The top notch parody of reality TV continues in the Burning Love/Hotwives vein as Hulu has just ordered up another season of Hotwives of Orlando.

In a similar fashion to the way The Real Wives franchise, their source material, has spread itself out, Las Vegas will be the new site of this second season of Hotwives. The cast from season 1 will also not be returning, but we’re sure they’ll get a cast that’s just as stellar as Casey Wilson, Kristen Schaal, Tymberlee Hill, Angela Kinsey, Andrea Savage, Danielle Schneider, Matt Besser, Seth Morris, and more.

UPDATE: Original Hotwives set to return.

We now wonder if the Hotwives universe and Burning Love universe will ever cross.

Watch Certain Cops Try to Play A Game Show Called “Don’t Shoot” on The Midnight Show

December 30, 2014

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Many police forces all over the country have been in hot water lately for certain high profile cases such as Michael Brown in Ferguson, MO and Eric Garner in NYC.

The Midnight Show tried to find out how those sort of cops would fare in a game show simply called “Don’t Shoot”. Watch how they fare here.

Turns Out That Egg Nog, Like Most of Your Food, Has a Sinister Dynasty Behind It

December 27, 2014

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Julio Torres, Lena Einbinder, and CH2 have “uncovered” the dastardly truth behind the seasonal, tolerated concoction known as “egg nog”.

Along with Brett Davis, John Early, Courtney Maginnis, and Ikechukwu Ufomadu, they show the world the “Nog Dynasty” (because, apparently, that many people buy egg nog to make for an empire?)

Hush Money Delves Deeper Into the Role of The First Black Stormtrooper

December 10, 2014

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The Star Wars Force Awakens trailer has got pretty much all of us excited about a galaxy far, far away again, especially since there are all these brand new developments.

One such thing to note is the presence of a black stormtrooper played by John Boyega. Hush Money sketch “has” an exclusive look into what went into the being the first black stormtrooper in the Star Wars universe.

Watch it all here.

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