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Because of The Golden Globes and Critics’ Choice Wins, The CW Has All of “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend” Online for The Week

January 20, 2016

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If you, for some reason, haven’t acquainted yourself with the work of Rachel Bloom, this is a good place to start.

Rachel received best actress in a comedic series honors at both The Golden Globes and The Critics Choice Awards. In addition to all the critical praise leading up to those wins, you have all the more reasons to watch the whole first season of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend over at The CW app or on Hulu for just this week.

So, please take a break from whatever you’re binge watching currently and binge watch Crazy Ex-Girlfriend.

Ricky Gervais Invited to Host The Golden Globes for Fifth Time

January 11, 2016

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(via Deadline)

Though only a handful of other people have even hosted The Golden Globes, Ricky Gervais might have a chance to host The Golden Globes as many times as Billy Crystal has hosted The Oscars.

He said that was going to be nice before he got into his monologue at last night’s Golden Globes Awards ceremony. Gervais was indeed nicer than his previous times hosting and it looks like that got him the offer for the gig again.

Billy Crystal has hosted The Oscars 8 times and, if Gervais accepts, this will be his fifth time hosting the ceremony. Given how against the grain the HFPA tends to go with their awards in general, this shouldn’t come as shock.

Comedy Winners for The 2016 Golden Globes Include “Crazy” Ex-Girlfriend”, “Mozart in the Jungle”, and “The Martian”

January 11, 2016

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We guess a bunch of people might try signing up for Amazon Prime now?

Last night, The 2016 Golden Globes Awards were handed out and some of the winners in the comedy category definitely show how broad the Hollywood Foreign Press Association’s definition of comedy is. It ranges from something that fits the ‘comedy or musical’ requirement perfectly like Crazy Ex-Girlfriend to The Martian taking two Golden Globes as a comedy.

Here are the rest of the comedy Golden Globes winners:

Best Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy-“The Martian”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy-Jennifer Lawrence, “Joy”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture-Musical or Comedy-Matt Damon, “The Martian”
Best Motion Picture-Animated-“Inside Out”
Best Television Series-Musical or Comedy-“Mozart in the Jungle”
Best Performance by an Actor in a Television Series-Musical or Comedy-Gael García Bernal, “Mozart in the Jungle”
Best Performance by an Actress in a Television Series-Musical or Comedy-Rachel Bloom, “Crazy Ex-Girlfriend”

Here’s the full list of winners.

Also, Rachel Bloom’s speech for her win for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend is pretty swell.

Transparent, Veep, Anomalisa, and Master of None Get Golden Globe Comedy Nominations as Well as Joy and The Martian

December 10, 2015

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The Hollywood Foreign Press Association continues to have a broader definition of comedy than anyone else during awards season.

There are your favorites as well as the favored upstarts in the field of this year’s Golden Globes nominees. The consistently praised Anomalisa and Master of None, heavy returning favorites Veep, Silicon Valley, and Transparent, comedy superstar Amy Schumer for Trainwreck, and brash newcomer Rachel Bloom for Crazy Ex-Girlfriend all got nominations from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. There were even some noms for work that should be getting more love from more awards, but, somehow, isn’t. This includes Lily Tomlin’s turn in Grandma, Melissa McCarthy for Spy, and Hulu’s Casual from Jason Reitman.

With all of that said, films and shows that are being considered in different lights, mainly dramatic rather than comedic, have found their way into the comedy nominees, like they usually do, at The Golden Globes such as Joy, The Martian, The Big Short, and Orange Is the New Black. Certainly, Joy, The Martian, and The Big Short weren’t touting themselves as comedies in trailers and promotion and Orange Is the New Black has shifted to dramatic consideration with other awards. We’re not exactly sure why the distinction for comedy is so noticeably different with HFPA, but it does possibly allow for some notoriety for work that wouldn’t really get recognized otherwise.

So, here are the comedy nominees for this year’s Golden Globes.

Best Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical
Joy
Spy
The Big Short
The Martian
Trainwreck

Best Screenplay
The Big Short-Adam McKay, Charles Randolph

Best Performance by an Actress in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical
Lily Tomlin-Grandma
Jennifer Lawrence-Joy
Melissa McCarthy-Spy
Maggie Smith-The Lady in the Van
Amy Schumer-Trainwreck

Best Performance by an Actor in a Motion Picture – Comedy Or Musical
Al Pacino-Danny Collins
Mark Ruffalo-Infinitely Polar Bear
Christian Bale-The Big Short
Steve Carell-The Big Short
Matt Damon-The Martian

Best Director – Motion Picture
Ridley Scott-The Martian

Best Animated Feature Film
Anomalisa
Inside Out
Shaun the Sheep Movie
The Good Dinosaur
The Peanuts Movie

Best Foreign Language Film
The Brand New Testament-France

Best Television Series – Comedy Or Musical
Casual
Mozart in the Jungle
Orange is the New Black
Silicon Valley
Transparent
Veep

Best Performance by an Actress In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical
Lily Tomlin-Grace and Frankie
Gina Rodriguez-Jane The Virgin
Jamie Lee Curtis-Scream Queens
Julia Louis-Dreyfus-Veep
Rachel Bloom-Crazy Ex-Girlfriend

Best Performance by an Actor In A Television Series – Comedy Or Musical
Patrick Stewart-Blunt Talk
Aziz Ansari-Master Of None
Gael García Bernal-Mozart in the Jungle
Rob Lowe-The Grinder
Jeffrey Tambor-Transparent

Best Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role in a Series, Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television
Uzo Aduba-Orange is the New Black
Judith Light-Transparent

Get a look at the full list of the 2016 Golden Globes nominees here.

Ricky Gervais Will Return to Host The Golden Globes for The 4th Time

October 26, 2015

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(via Variety)

The Internet is definitely more primed to meme and/or “think piece” everything Ricky does as host than it was 2012, the last year he hosted.

Ricky Gervais hosted The Golden Globes three years in a row and ruffled some feathers, particularly of those in attendance, during that stint for his roast-style hosting.

After three years of the power duo of Amy Poehler and Tina Fey, we wonder what Gervais will have up his sleeve and if he’ll go more or less aggressive throughout the telecast.

So, in the same year, Chris Rock and Ricky Gervais will have hosted major awards shows, which seems like more than just happenstance.

If You’re Not Busy Live-Tweeting The Golden Globes, Watch the Premieres of “Togetherness”, “Girls”, and “Episodes”

January 11, 2015

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If you’re in LA right now, the rain couldn’t have come at more perfect time if you were looking more reasons to stay in tonight. Already, Amy Poehler and Tina Fey will be serving their hosting duties at The Golden Globes at 8PM on NBC. Twitter should be full on non-stop live-tweeting from both comedy folk and non-comedy folk that might be worth perusing from the comfort of your own home.

On top of that, Girls returns for its fourth season at HBO at 9PM and the series premiere of The Duplass Brothers’ Togetherness follows right after at 9:30PM. To cap off the evening, there’s also the season four premiere of Episodes on Showtime at 10:30PM.

So, get comfy make plans/DVR accordingly.