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Help Get “Astronomy Club” a Second Season and Sign This Petition

June 22, 2020

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Established and celebrated all black comedy sketch group Astronomy Club got to make an entire TV series at Netflix year under their banner. This first season of Astronomy Club: The Sketch Show was one of the best runs of sketch comedy in 2019 with a balance of silly cleverness and succinct satire. In our opinion, especially as it made our 100 Best of 2019 list, it was definitely a show that easily deserved a second season.

Yet, as you might know, Netflix cancelled the series after said first season, almost unceremoniously at the beginning of the month, amidst the weeks of protests led by Black Lives Matter. You’ve heard the call to lift and amplify melanated voices. So, there’s a chance to do so by signing a petition for bringing back Astronomy Club for a second season at Netflix or elsewhere.

On top of all the petitions that you’re probably signing right now, we kindly ask if you add this one to your “to sign list” and help truly promote inclusion of BIPOC voices and bring back one of the best sketch series from last year.

bump. https://t.co/13xrTdPTfZ

— James III (@James3rdComedy) June 15, 2020

Wanna See Jon Stewart Moderate the 2016 Presidential Debates? You Might Wanna Sign This Petition

August 21, 2015

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At the time of this post, it has 112,206 signatures.

So far, much of the race to be president, especially in regards to the GOP candidates, has resembled a one-man circus.

With such a circus going on, many feel there’s only one such person to wrangle it all in, however they can, and that person is Jon Stewart.

A petition at Change.org has been started for Stewart to moderate debates and, as shown above, they are getting closer and closer to a 150,000 signature goal. The petition should meet that number soon.

We don’t know if the petition will make Stewart the moderator, but, at the very least, his name is in the conversation.

Petition Grows For The Stars of “Grace and Frankie” To Be Paid Like They’re Stars

June 5, 2015

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(via The Wrap)

Apparently, Jane Fonda and Lily Tomlin, who play the titular stars of “Grace and Frankie” are paid as much as male supporting cast members Sam Waterston and Martin Sheen.

While the pay is equal here, the simple matter of fact is that Fonda and Tomlin are the top-billed stars of the show, which should warrant the most pay. However, it’s not the case and there doesn’t seem to be any apparent good reason for it.

Do Waterston and Sheen have a pricy rate for online streaming series these days? Even if they are, Fonda and Tomlin are just as established and that should bring back the difference in pay back to who is higher on the cast member totem pole.

It’s very similar to a sports team paying their star players as much as the rest of the team, even though they’re the stat sheet leaders night after night.

As of this post, the petition has over 9.500 signatures on and you can sign it here.

There Is a Petition to Have Weird Al Yankovic Perform at The Super Bowl Half Time Show

August 7, 2014

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(via Splitsider)

The Super Bowl Half Time Show is up there in terms of the biggest stage to perform on. Thus, only the biggest acts get to play it like Beyonce, Prince, Bruce Springsteen, etc.

With a new album debuting at #1 on Billboard, Weird Al Yankovic might just be a great candidate to play that very same half time show, which is the purpose of a petition that has started by Weird Al’s fans.

We sincerely hope this happens to not only have Yankovic’s name mentioned in the same sentence with Super Bowl Half Time alums, but we’re sure it will be one hell of a show.

The White House Will Have to Waste Time Addressing a Joke From ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’

November 7, 2013

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The White House Will Have to Waste Time Addressing a Joke From ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live’

A petition has been signed by enough people to address a joke during segment on Jimmy Kimmel Live that was apparently offensive to Chinese people.

The White House will now have to take a little, but still precious time away from solving The Affordable Health Care Act or other foreign policy debacles we shouldn’t be involved in just to deal with something that the Internet can just argue over until both sides get tired and further entrenched.

Challenge Against Podcasting Patent Troll Taken to USPTO by EFF

October 18, 2013

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Challenge Against Podcasting Patent Troll Taken to USPTO by EFF

If you’re not at all familiar, the world of podcasting is in potential danger by what is known as “patent trolls”, people trying to obtain licensing fees off of a patent while they themselves do not enact or produce any such services or products from the very patent they’re trying to profit from.

Luckily, podcasters have banded together, specifically the Electronic Frontier Foundation and are taking it to straight to the United States Patent and Trademark Office. Hopefully, this will be resolved soon, so we can go back to listen comedians get deep with no worry.