Colin Quinn has been expertly dissecting every single trope of every police procedural/detective TV series with Cop Show.
In fact, Quinn has done it so well with showing how overdone so many cop shows are, but pointing out their fallacies with “behind-the-scenes” footage and interviews with a mysterious European journalist, that he’s made it to a 3rd season over at L Studio.
Get into season 3 of Cop Show here.
MoveOn.Org Is Putting on a Trump Comedy Contest, “Laughter Trumps Hate”
It’s free to enter, they’re accepting submissions for sketch, stand-up, and Trump impressions, and there is a cash prize for the winners as well as the potential “to be invited to participate in other comedy projects or events as part the Laughter Trumps Hate Task Force.”
The deadline is Wednesday, August 17th at midnight PDT.
This is just a morsel of the brilliant travel/food show satire that Hidden America with Jonah Ray is doing on Seeso.
This is a nice counterpoint to that infamous, inflammatory, and completely unnecessary Christopher Hitchens essay from 2007 voiced by some of the most notable funny people around today that just happen to be women.
Sure, 2007 was almost a decade ago and there has always been evidence against Hitchens, but it’s always fun to skewer his Why Women Aren’t Funny piece every once in awhile.
It’s all official now.
The 2016 Presidential Election will be between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump.
That’s unfortunate as this contest, with Bernie Sanders having dropped out, now has left the brilliant satirical parody of Trump vs. Bernie, orchestrated masterfully by Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian hanging.
So, with that in mind, Atamanuik and Adomian have retired Trump vs. Bernie for now, but have made sure give us all one last parting gift: a Trump vs. Bernie album.
Trump vs. Bernie: Live in Brooklyn was just released yesterday on iTunes, Amazon, Google Play, Spotify, and will come out on vinyl in November.
Of all the political comedy in this election, Trump vs. Bernie stood out from the pack and you should definitely get their album to remember/find out what that was.
Sean Tejaratchi, also known as @shittingtonuk or the man behind Crap Hound, has made use of his fantastic graphic design skills and dark wit to provide us all, for years, with the comedic gems that exist at LiarTownUSA.
Whether it be Netflix descriptions, faux vintage ads, fake Playbills or theatrical flyers, or general all around parody, Sean’s work is absolutely worth keeping an eye on.
Perhaps, you may follow him and his work already, but, as stated above, this is just a friendly reminder to keep doing so. If you don’t, then (you might have guessed it already) please follow LiarTownUSA.
Alicia Silverstone to Star in “American Woman” at TV Land, Inspired by Kyle Richards
Everything about this points towards Alicia Silverstone possibly making a big comeback, TV Land continuing to solidify its original comedy branding, and a whole lot more Clueless .gifs being posted online.
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert is on the ball with satirizing the GOP convention in Cleveland.
You might have heard Melania Trump’s speech at the convention was claimed to be lifted from Michelle Obama’s 2008 convention speech causing a ‘yuge’ fallout. Please note that Melania insisted she wrote the speech and today, the speech writer (who is actually not Melania) apologized for indeed taking cues from Michelle Obama at the direction of Melania.
That makes this cold open to last night’s Late Show all the more damning.
Also, props to Laura Benanti for doing top notch job impersonating Melania. There are times when you’re not even sure if it’s an impersonator or not in this bit.
While we’ve been reinforced to enjoy summer due to the scheduling of most schools in this country, there are a good deal of people who don’t enjoy June, July, and August because of the intense heat and the fact that it’s not the holiday season.
If you’ve ever felt alone because you’re an “anti-summer” person, fret no more (except for the part where you hate summer) as Connor Ratliff and Mikey Erg, the guys behind the non-religious holiday album Spirit of Ratliff, have a nice collection of songs that speak to your anathema of summer.
Watch the lyric video for 4th of July: RESURGENCE if you think we’re making all of this up for some reason.
It’s entilted Summer Is Not XMAS, has 7 songs, and can (and should) be downloaded off of Bandcamp right here.
The “wisdom” of Aparna Nancherla and Jo Firestone will hopefully last through the centuries even though this web series looks like it got shot on VHS.
Watch the latest episode of their Womanhood series on Refinery 29′s RIOT on the subject of menopause, possibly ‘witchhood’.
When it comes to making in “the biz” as talent, you often have to have some sort of reel. For actors, it’s very common to have a reel for commercial, drama, comedy, characters, stunts, etc.
What’s probably not seen enough in these reels is the skill of portraying the act of death on screen.
Luckily, Ron Babcock made a “death reel” to make fun of the inevitability of death and how uncomfortable we are in talking about it start exploring this unexplored niche and get in on work that other actors are probably stupidly missing out on.
In a way, this is its own set of fireworks.
Brett Gelman and Jason Woliner unleashed their latest “Dinner” special that takes a unflinching and hysterical stab at discussing racism this week.
It’s now streaming at Adult Swim and we highly suggest you watch it as soon as you can.
For some reason, this great sketch on Inside Amy Schumer featuring Jon Benjamin as a lawyer who can’t do anything about mass shootings was cut from airing even though gun control is absolutely the hot button issue in the U.S. right now.
All the filibustering, sit-ins, and general demand from an overwhelming majority of Americans for any sort of action on gun control make the sketch so timely that it has now been posted online.
What better way to cover the topic of a midlife crisis than to go through a “mid-show crisis”?
There isn’t one, so stop thinking about it already.
Just watch, listen, learn, and enjoy Aparna Nancherla and Jo Firestone’s latest Womanhood at Refinery 29′s Riot.
The rest of our listings for comedy shows/events as well as open mics and corresponding maps are embedded at www.thecomedybureau.com.
(via Deadline)
Making a comedy special on a bus with a live audience should come in handy here.
Crash Test partners Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel will have a brand new show thanks to Insurrection Media and Seriously.tv.
Called Drive Share, follows the rise of ridesharing through the lens of the drivers and the weird people they pick up. Perhaps a High Maintenance for Uber instead of weed?
We’ll find out later this year when it premieres digitally.
There are so many reasons to think that we’re living in the future that past generations dreamed of, this presidential election notwithstanding, including going to Mars, self-driving cars, living past 100, and having the Internet instantly available in our pockets.
However, in 2016, there are many sitcoms, often those of the multi cam variety, that are still culturally reductive and, in a manner of speaking, ‘way behind the times’. You’ve probably seen Louie call this out on one episode where they had a cheesy sitcom break the fourth wall.
Well, Inside Amy Schumer upped the ante and went even darker with their satire of sitcoms that should have stayed in the last millennium.
Amy Schumer and her team at Inside Amy Schumer takes on the issue of plus sizes versus “normal” sizes when it comes to women’s clothing by showing the vast disparity between the two.
How big is that disparity between shopping for a size 12 versus a size 6? Just look at it here.
Forget about all the town halls and sound bytes.
The debate between somewhat fictionalized versions of presidential hopefuls Donald Trump and Bernie Sanders as played by Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian are what you have been waiting to see.
The world will finally get to see what many of us already have enjoyed with the premiere of the Trump vs. Bernie: Debate for America special starting tonight at 9PM EST/6PM PST on Fusion.
Even in 2016, many issues regarding the health of women are still largely being decided by male politicians who are far from being experts on women’s bodies.
Per usual, they nail the absurdity of the matter on the head and keep driving it further and further.
On last night’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Samantha discovered that there is more bureaucratic red tape to get a costume for Eddie Eagle, the NRA’s mascot used to educate children about gun safety, than there is to buy a handgun, rifle, or shotgun in several states.
It’s just more of the Lord’s work being done by Bee and her Full Frontal staff.
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.
These seem to be tumultuous times as the trust between citizens and the police has been shaken.
That’s why some folks would like a phone that can stand up to the rigors of possibly capturing your civil liberties being violated unjustly.
Luckily, Jerrod Carmichael just has such a phone. Watch as he sells it to Jay Jackson/Perd Hapley and his family.
As you have seen from things like The Wolf of Wall Street, get rich quick schemes only work when someone gets severely screwed along the way.
The same goes for many of those books that promised a simple, numbered system to obtain a vaguely defined goal of success.
So, Grant Pardee along with Matt Champagne and Susan Burke made a fun satirical ad if those books were a little more upfront with their message.
