There is a lot of reasons that comedy will be simultaneously a bigger deal and something to watch even more closely in 2017.
Jen Kirkman will undoubtedly be one of those reasons.
You’ll get a sense of why in the trailer for her latest Netflix special, “Just Keep Livin’?”.
It starts streaming on Tuesday, January 3rd.
Crashing, as you’ll see in this trailer, will be a fun look into what Pete Holmes’ life was like and how desperate it was before he was flying high in his career with an HBO special and series under his belt.
Take note that 2017 might be a really good year for Jermaine Fowler too.
Crashing premieres on Sunday, February 19th at 10:30PM on HBO.
Just over a month from now, there will be the return of Louie Anderson as a mom, Zach Galifianakis as one of the saddest clowns ever, and Martha Kelly being Martha Kelly.
There have been plenty of short promos over the past several months, but here’s a full trailer that will satisfy, at least for a little while, your fix for more Baskets.
Season 2 is set to premiere on FX on Thursday, January 19th.
Watch Trailer for Doc “Asperger’s Are Us” Following a Different Sort of Comedy Troupe
A documentary that’s inspirational, about coming up in comedy, fighting negative stereotypes about not being a neurotypical or “NT” sounds like a winning combo to us.
Noah Britton, Ethan Finlan, Jack Hanke, New Michael Ingemi are all on the autism spectrum, but manage to do comedy anyway and the film follows how exactly they pull that off.
The Duplass Brothers thought the same thing and attached themselves to the movie to hopefully get it more exposure.
Watch the trailer for Alex Lehmann’s Asperger’s Are Us at the link above.
Also, the actual group do tour and you can find their dates (mostly on the East Coast) here.
In 1983, Robert DeNiro took on one of his noted roles as a mentally unstable “comedian” that takes a talk show host hostage in The King of Comedy.
Next year, DeNiro will star as a slightly more (but not too much more) normal comedian in simply titled The Comedian that forces himself to make a comeback after several falls from grace. Also, the one and only Jeff Ross was hired to write actual jokes for DeNiro’s character Jackie that are used throughout the film. Leslie Mann, Danny DeVito, Patti LuPone, and Harvey Keitel make for a pretty dazzling supporting cast as well.
Watch the trailer here, then look for it in theaters on January 13th.
Going into Thanksgiving is going to be dicey this year. We’d say skip if you can.
Whether that’s possible or not, at least you’ll have a Michael Che stand-up special to look forward to.
Here’s the trailer for Michael Che Matters. It starts streaming on Netflix on November 25th.
It would seem that Belgium’s Jaco Van Dormael and Thomas Gunzig bring an incredibly imaginative, fantastical comedy to life with The Brand New Testament.
In the trailer, the all powerful being that is often referred to as God is depicted as a cranky old man living in Belgium that actually has a wife and daughter who cope with his interference in people’s lives. That being said, his daughter has a mind to free the people of the world from his seemingly unfair chaos that he dishes out at his discretion.
If anything, this movie looks hopeful in the midst of what seems to be an existential nightmare. Such a movie couldn’t come sooner and will be playing in US theaters on December 9th,
The chase for that 15 minutes of fame, which is probably closer to 5 minutes in 2016, gets taken to the nth degree in Nerdland, the comedy from writer Andrew Kevin Walker and director Chris Prynoski.
Paul Rudd and Patton Oswalt voice two vagabonds willing to go to whatever lengths to get their time in the spotlight. Hannibal Buress, Mike Judge, Kate Micucci, Riki Lindhome, John Ennis, Laraine Newman, Reid Scott, and Paul Scheer round out a stellar cast of voices.
You can see the chaos that comes with being desperate to be famous in the new trailer, then catch Nerdland in theaters on December 6th.
Kaitlin Olson, best known as Sweet Dee from It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia, is getting set to topline her own series over at Fox called The Mick.
From this trailer, you can see Olson still seem to live in the spirit of Dee, but getting to deal with much, much, much richer ne’er-do-wells this time around.
If you’re into it, you can catch the series premiere on New Year’s Day 2017 on Fox.
The Duplass Brothers pretty much have dramedy down pat. They know how to make great dramedy and they definitely know how and where to find it.
The Duplass Brothers Productions’ latest film is this indie dramedy from writer/director Linas Phillips, Rainbow Time. It follows the complex and tense relationship between a developmentally delayed middle aged man, his brother, and his brother’s girlfriend and does so in a way that looks heartfelt, offbeat, and cathartic, according to this trailer.
Linas plays the developmentally delayed man known as Shonzi and is joined by an impressive cast of Timm Sharp, Melanie Lynskey, and Tobin Bell.
Look for Rainbow Time in theaters on November 4th.
Your favorite workplace hell comedy is back for its 3rd season to remind you that eternal damnation can be just as boring as it is horrific.
The new season premieres on Adult Swim next Sunday on October 23rd at 11:30PM on Adult Swim.
Until then, you can feast on the sorrow of lost souls/monotony of the never ending 9-5 in this teaser trailer.
Stan Against Evil, the horror comedy from the mind of the brilliant Dana Gould, will be coming next month to IFC.
Specifically, the series premiere will be on Wednesday, November 2nd at 10PM when John C. McGinley gets to killing demons with the extreme prejudice that can only come from cranky old baby boomers.
Get a taste of what’s to come in this first trailer here.
Have you asked yourself what the acid-induced love child of Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind and A Scanner Darkly would be like?
Even if you haven’t asked that question, you should definitely see what the answer is in the trailer for the brand new Adult Swim live action, rotoscope animation hybrid Dream Corp LLC from Daniel Stessen.
Watch it here, then look for the series premiere on Sunday, October 23rd at 11:45PM.
Jon Glaser Loves Gear looks to be the multi-layered absurdist show that might spiritually follow up where Review with Forrest MacNeil left off as Jon Glaser reviews gear, but also struggles with personal issues that seep into reviewing gear and vice versa.
See for yourself in the first full trailer here, then look for the series premiere on Wednesday, October 26th at 10PM on TruTV.
Seeso’s original series Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ has done a pretty great job sending up Million Dollar Listing and looks to one-up themselves in season 2.
This season 2 trailer looks like it’s more than up to that task.
Look for season 2 of Bajillion Dollar Propertie$ to start streaming on Thursday, October 13th.
Alchemy, the woods, and being a social outcast combine for what looks to be whole mess of fun in writer/director Joel Potrykus’ latest film, The Alchemist Cookbook.
See for yourself in this trailer, then look for it on BitTorrent Now for pay-what you wish on October 9th and in select theaters shortly thereafter.
Woody Allen’s latest work, Crisis in Six Scenes, should prove to be one of Amazon’s biggest gets yet.
What the series is and what it’s about has been largely kept under wraps until today when the trailer was released.
Continuing his fondness for stories of the past, Allen puts himself in the midst of the social upheaval of the 1960s, which will undoubtedly invite parallel comparisons to the social upheaval of today.
Watch the trailer here, then look for the series to start streaming on Friday, September 30th.
The second trailer for Divorce shows the real nitty gritty of splitting up as well as the apparent great chemistry that Sarah Jessica Parker and Thomas Haden Church have for a couple that can’t f’n stand each other.
Divorce premieres on Sunday, October, 9th at 10PM on HBO.
Issa Rae has already gotten a first look deal at HBO ahead of the series premiere of her show Insecure.
That puts more anticipation on the show, which will be the latest addition to HBO comedy. Luckily, you can see a little more of what’s to come in this second, full trailer.
Again, catch the premiere on Sunday, October 9th at 10:30PM on HBO.
Arguably, the father of mockumentaries, Christopher Guest, has his latest film coming very soon to Netflix.
After covering the worlds of hair metal, dog shows, folk music, and more, Guest points his focus towards the world of mascots with his usual suspects of Fred Willard, Jennifer Coolidge, and Parker Posey as well as the delightful Zach Woods, Bob Balaban, Sarah Baker, Christopher O’Dowd, Jane Lynch, Ed Begley Jr., and more.
It shouldn’t come as a surprise, but this is one of the funniest trailers we’ve seen in awhile.
Look for Mascots to start streaming on October 13th on Netflix.
The love triangle is a tried and true formula within romantic comedies, but making that enticing in 2016 is a bit of a challenge.
Sophie Goodhart’s My Blind Brother has a love triangle between Jenny Slate, Nick Kroll, and a blind Adam Scott that might just be able to pull that off.
See for yourself in this trailer.
Look for My Blind Brother in theaters next month on September 23rd.
Sir Patrick Stewart is returning as a cavalier news anchor very soon as season 2 of Starz’s Blunt Talk is set to premiere on Sunday, October 2nd.
This new trailer shows that, while season 1 got unhinged, season 2 will probably one-up that and then some.
Gretchen and Jimmy are back at their ‘perfect storm’ of a relationship at the end of this month.
See what that will entail in the season 3 trailer here, then look for the series premiere at Wednesday, August 31st on FXx.
Season 4 of Drunk History has more of what you know and love of the edutainment series. Star-studded historical reenactments, mostly accurate historical accounts, and really, really, really drunk people telling a story.
Watch the trailer here, then look for the season premiere on Tuesday, Sept. 27th on Comedy Central.
Get ready for what might be Australia’s next wonderfully weird export with Girl Asleep from director Rosemary Myer and writer Matthew Whittet.
It’s a coming-of-age comedy that revels being set in the 80s as much as it does making a dream world out of the mind of a teenage girl and it looks all sorts of charming for because of it.
See for yourself in the trailer, then look for it in theaters in the U.S. starting September 23rd.