As they’ve already hinted at, Nick Kroll and Andrew Goldberg’s animated comedy Big Mouth, Netflix’s latest animated series geared towards adults, will revel in the surprising highs and the gross lows of puberty. In fact, there’s a bit of magical realism woven through that might just set this series apart from other coming-of-age animated series.
See for yourself in the full trailer here.
FX Developing ‘Meaty’ From Samantha Irby, Jessi Klein and Abbi Jacobson
Half of Broad City plus the head of writer of Inside Amy Schumer taking on Samantha Irby’s life sounds like the right ingredients for another FX series you should keep an eye on.
Irby and Jessi Klein, who is the Inside Amy Schumer head writer, are writing and executive producing this project together with Abbi Jacobson also set to executive produce.
So, if this go to series, a good portion of the comedy landscape on television will be nicely occupied by Broad City, Better Things, Insecure, and Meaty.
There’s nothing quite like a random day like National Book Lovers Day that’s set up to celebrates books that allows us to recommend to you some great comedy book titles that have been either recently released or will be hitting bookshelves (both physical and digital) very soon.
So, without further delay, get your observance of this holiday in with buying or pre-ordering the following:
–Based on a True Story: A Memoir by Norm MacDonald (out September 20th)
–How To Win at Feminism: The Definitive Guide to Having It All-And Then Some! by Reductress (out Oct. 25th)
–You’ll Grow Out of It by Jessi Klein
–How To Be The Greatest Improviser on Earth by Will Hines
–Dave Hill Doesn’t Liver Here Anymore by Dave Hill
–Drinky Crow Drinks Again by Tony Millionaire
–Sober Stick Figure: A Memoir by Amber Tozer
Odds are that if you’ve enjoyed some of the more talked about comedy on television in recent memory, you’ve enjoyed the work of Jessi Klein. As a writer of both Inside Amy Schumer and Kroll Show, Klein is a formidable voice in comedy.
Knowing that, you might want to get her collection of personal stories gathered together in her new book You’ll Grow Out of It.
Get a sampling of it from this live reading that Jessi recently performed at Refinery 29′s Riot Live.
Unless you’ve been hiding from the Internet, you’d know that Inside Amy Schumer is not only one of the funniest shows on TV, but a show that has consistently been tackling touchy issues in a way that has opened up dialogues on those issues where they was little or no dialogue before.
Amy Schumer, along with Inside Amy Schumer co-creator/executive producer Dan Powell and writer/executive producer Jessi Klein talk on how honored they feel to win the prestigious Peabody Award.
It took awhile, but there is now an heir apparent to the Chappelle Show’s Wrap It Up! awards speech music box.
Inside Amy Schumer has now made Listen Alert, which offers 24/7 support to those so desperately in need of attention for their stories that trail off and trying to vent about very non-crucial problems.
Get the full rundown here.