The Lucas Brothers Moving Co. Premieres Tonight on Fox
The animated series from great comedy brother duo The Lucas Brothers is making its premiere tonight on Fox ADHD.
Tune into Fox at 11PM and see what an animated show with a mix of rapper Danny Brown and Natasha Leggero as well as those bizarrely chill Lucas Brothers will be like.
NBC Orders Comedy Pilots From Casey Wilson/June Diane Raphael and Rashida Jones
NBC is seemingly off to a good start this round of pilot season as they have just ordered pilots from the hilarious duo of Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael as well as one from the delightful Rashida Jones.
Perhaps, this time, they won’t let these projects go like they did with Mulaney.
Aubrey Plaza, Oliver Platt, Jeff Goldblum Board Johnny Depp’s ‘Mortdecai’
Say what you will, but an action comedy about stolen art with Aubrey Plaza, Oliver Platt, and Jeff Goldblum with ‘Nazi loot’ pretty much has us sold even though it’s not a Wes Anderson movie.
A teaser/trailer of Mortdecai needs to come out ASAP.
Tim Minchin Developing a Groundhog Day Musical
While adapting any material into a musical can be suspicious, one of the Bill Murray classic Groundhog Day from the brilliant Tim Minchin is probably going to be pretty great.
We hope this makes it to the stage and tours across the world so we can see it soon.
Sony Pictures Classics Acquires Rights to Woody Allen’s ‘Magic in the Moonlight’
Another beautiful destination in the French Riviera around the 1920’s plus Woody Allen equals Allen’s next film Magic In the Moonlight, a romantic comedy that could make a start for a case of a whole french romantic period in the director’s career.
As Sony Pictures Classics has gotten the rights to the film in North America, we shall see.
The Saga to Make a Richard Pryor Biopic Possibly Continues with Lee Daniels
For several years, a biopic about legendary comedian Richard Pryor has been attempted to be made several times and has fallen short of being that very biopic.
Perhaps, critically acclaimed director Lee Daniels will be the one to spearhead the movie to being made as he in talks with The Weinstein Company to do this elusive project.
If this happens, this might be the first Lee Daniels movie with a little bit of humor in it.
With a 3rd season nearing it’s premiere and the order for a 4th season just ordered, we’re wondering if HBO just likes seeing what Lena Dunham will go for each season with Girls before renewing it.
Either way, we’re glad to get more Girls coming for the next year or so.
The Spoils of Babylon Premieres Tonight on IFC
What might be the most epic comedy mini series (it certainly has the look for it) on TV, The Spoils of Babylon starring Tobey Maguire and Kristen Wiig premieres tonight on IFC at 10PM.
Let’s see if it’s a hilarious cross between The Heart She Holler and There Will Be Blood that we think it very well might be.
Patton Oswalt Drives Around, Sort Of, With Jerry Seinfeld in a DeLorean
Jerry Seinfeld breaks out his DeLorean collection for the Patton Oswalt episode of Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.
Besides, Patton taking Jerry to Handsome Coffee Roasters in the Arts District in downtown and the DeLorean perhaps not working so well, need way say more to watch (do so at the link)?
Louis C.K., Modern Family, The Colbert Report and More Get DGA Awards TV Nominations
Along with 30 Rock, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and Jimmy Kimmel Live, all the above got DGA Awards nominations for television and their respective directors.
Interesting to note: One of those Modern Family nominations is for Bryan Cranston.
Never Not Funny with Jimmy Pardo Moving to Earwolf
That’s right, the trailblazing podcast known as Never Not Funny with Jimmy Pardo, which you had to pay to listen to, is now moving to Earwolf and will be free to all to listen to.
Only a select few (Conan O’Brien, Patton Oswalt, SF Sketchfest, Scott Aukerman) are up from the hundreds upon hundreds of episodes Pardo’s recorded, but we’re sure you’re like us in being excited for Pardo goodness for all.
UAE to Release Shez Cassim After 9 Months of Imprisonment Over an Internet Parody Video
After months of wholly undeserved jail time and a recent public outcry, Shez Cassim, the maker of an Internet parody video on youth culture in Dubai, will be released and come home to the U.S.
Good job, Internet.
FX Tries For Another Rock Comedy with Pilot From Denis Leary
Two years ago, FX had Dana Gould and Dave Grohl developing a rock comedy, which we’re really excited about, but ended up not going very far beyond development.
In 2014, a force behind one of their longest running series in Rescue Me, Denis Leary, is taking another crack at a rock comedy in a pilot called Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll.
Perhaps, this one will fare a little better.
Sara Benincasa Writing ‘Agorafabulous’ Pilot for USA Network
The wonderful Sara Benincasa has gotten her book Agorafabulous!: Dispatches from My Bedroom
Hopefully, we’ll hear about it getting green lit before too long.
TBS Renews The Pete Holmes Show for 13 Weeks
Many of you we were wondering what the word was on The Pete Holmes Show when it went on hiatus last year.
Luckily, the word is “renewal”.
The Pete Holmes Show just got picked up for 13 more weeks and returns to TBS on Feb. 24th, incidentally (or not so incidentally) the same day as Late Night with Seth Meyers premieres.
Craig Robinson’s Mr. Robinson Going to Series at NBC
NBC has just ordered a handful of episodes from Craig Robinson’s pilot Mr. Robinson to air, which, according to the description, sounds a lot like School of Rock as a TV series starring Craig Robinson.
Anyone taking bets for whether they’ll do a parody of the song Mrs. Robinson at some point?
Sasheer Zamata Joins ‘Saturday Night Live’ As New Cast Member
After the wave of criticism of the lack of diversity at SNL, then a sketch making fun of said criticism last year, Lorne Michaels “secretly” auditioned a group of black female comedians to be cast members.
Yesterday, it was announced that, from that group, Sasheer Zamata will be the newest cast member at Saturday Night Live. We hope that she kills it in her first episode.
The Goddamn Dave Hill Show Premieres Tomorrow at WFMU
Without barely wasting any time at all, the slot previously occupied by The Best Show at WFMU with Tom Scharpling will continue to be taken up by great comedy in the form of The Goddamn Dave Hill Show.
It starts 6PM PST tomorrow and will have H. Jon Benjamin as a guest, so we don’t even need to tell you to get on board ASAP.
Kurt Braunohler to Launch His Comedy Central Web Series at Riot LA
We’re not too sure what the fantastic Kurt Braunohler has in store for his upcoming web series at Comedy Central/CC:Studios called Roustabout, but we have no doubt that it’ll be groundbreaking silliness of the highest degree.
If you’re in attendance at Riot LA this weekend (get tickets here), specifically Jan. 11th @ The Smell, like us, you’ll get exactly an idea of what Kurt’s up to in a special live preview.
Google Planning To Put YouTube Into Cars
The plan for web video watching while driving is a scary prospect considering that so many great web series could be the cause of car accidents. Luckily, with this technology unveiled at the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, the driver can only watch YouTube through the car’s system while in park (that’s not to say you can’t still watch it on your phone).
In theory, coupled with hands free cars also from Google, that you’ll be able to watch something like Bo Burnham’s special what. while you’re in traffic (have you watched what. yet? It’s fantastic)
EW.Com’s ‘Up Close With Tig Notaro’ Gets Up Close Like No Other Talk Show Has Before
EW.com just launched a new web series hosted by Tig Notaro in the most up close way in recent memory that a talk show has ever been hosted.
How close? Don’t bother guessing, just watch and enjoy it already because it’s a talk show web series hosted by Tig Notaro and that should be good enough (also, the first guest is Gillian Jacobs).
Andre Hyland Is Going to Sundance With a Short Film He Shot In a Day
The great multi-hyphenate funny person Andre Hyland is on his way to the prestigious Sundance Film Festival with a short film that, as he reveals in this interview, was just shot in a day. Knowing Andre, that’s probably all he needed.
Andre is hilarious in such a uniquely silly way (just check his character Jesse Miller out) that we’re thrilled gets to be shared in Park City, UT. Watch him discuss his short film Funnel that was selected at the link.
Seth Meyers Might Have a More Streamlined Version of ‘Late Night’
If you’ve seen Seth Meyers in his tenure at SNL, you can make an educated guess that his taking over Late Night will be more than a little different than Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.
According to Meyers in a recent interview, there will be less music and more sketches, which seems to be the new streamlined version of the late night talk show format that networks have been going for (The Pete Holmes Show, Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, Nikki and Sara Live).
You’re probably curious as we are to see where Late Night with Seth Meyers will fit in with “@midnight” & Pete Holmes Show just ending along with Jimmy Kimmel Live and The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on,
Let Comedy Resolve to Stand Up For Itself in 2014 Like Natasha Leggero
For the sake of several people on the Internet looking for a reason to be outraged, so many comedians were coerced into publicly apologizing last year. Maybe some cases were called for and other ones were certainly blown way out of proportion and taken out of context (a mortal enemy of comedy).
Over a New Year’s Eve special, Natasha Leggero made a joke about American veterans and received a lot of criticism from it, but, thankfully stood up for her joke, which was, as you should hear a lot today, pretty harmless (and pretty great).
We can only hope that more comedians will stand firm with their jokes in 2014 so long as they really aren’t using comedy as a veil for bigotry, which definitely was not the case here.
WGA Awards Movie Nominees: Her, The Wolf of Wall Street, Nebraska, and More
The Writers Guild of America just announced their nominees for movies including dramadies, comedic dramas, dramatic comedies, dramas with really funny moments in it, etc. Her, The Wolf of Wall Street, Nebraska, American Hustle, Blue Jasmine, and more.
That only leaves us thinking “Still, no love for In A World…, It’s A Disaster, or Wrong Cops/Wrong.”