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Staged Series 2 Ep07: A Truly Twisted Climax in the Shadow of Fleabag
Funny how this treads the thin line between Comedy and funny, cringe-inducing Horror. Still from "Staged Series 2 Ep 7", BBC And that was the climax of the series David and Michael never had a chance in hell of getting cast in the US remake of Staged It was always going to be a kamikaze attack, a[...]
Saturday Night Live: MGK SNL Song Dedication Hits Close to Home
Lauren Holt (The Filth), Punkie Johnson (Space Force), and Andrew Dismukes (Comedy Central's Colossal ClusterFest, New York Comedy Festival) are joining the cast as feature players. Alec Baldwin returned as Donald Trump, with Maya Rudolph joining them as Kamala Harris, and Jim Carrey as Joe Biden for part of the season before cast member Moffat took over[...]
Staged Series 2 Ep 6: Gentle Jim Parsons, Weirdly Sinister Josh Gad
It takes place in an alternate comedy universe where actors are really weird It's also an alternate universe where Sheen isn't playing a Hannibal Lecter knock-off on the FOX show Prodigal Son and thus gets to leave the house and travel to New York to work Meta hall of mirrors, everyone! If Staged was a[...]
The Wonder Years is getting a reboot at ABC (Image: Disney).
The reboot of the popular coming-of-age comedy will focus on how a Black middle-class family in late 1960s Montgomery, Alabama, was able to live out their "wonder years" during a very turbulent time in modern American history The project received a strong pilot-production commitment last year, with Patterson writing, Savage directing, and Marlens serving as[...]
Staged Series 2 Ep 3: Whoopi Reads the Riot Act
This is a comedy after all, where nothing ever goes right. Still from "Staged Series 2 Episode 3" BBC It's all very well to laugh at actors That's the whole driving force of this show, but it uses that to get at a deeper, more poignant truth Actors are still people Actors are unfettered by the filter[...]
saturday night live
Lauren Holt (The Filth), Punkie Johnson (Space Force), and Andrew Dismukes (Comedy Central's Colossal ClusterFest, New York Comedy Festival) are joining the cast as feature players. Alec Baldwin returned as Donald Trump, with Maya Rudolph joining them as Kamala Harris, and Jim Carrey as Joe Biden for part of the season before cast member Moffat took over[...]
Staged Series 2 Ep. 3: Simon Pegg and Nick Frost Torture Tennant!
Things only get worse from there. This episode partly depends on the audience's awareness of Pegg and Frost's history as friends and a comedy double act from their past work on shows like Spaced and movies like Shaun of the Dead and Hot Fuzz Vanity is death to comedy, and Pegg and Frost are perfectly happy[...]
Staged 2 Episode 2: Now the Story - and Comedy - Truly Begins
And when things get worse, the comedy just gets funnier This is a show that knows that the best comedy comes from people at their worse, and it gleefully portrays actors as insecure, needy, destructive, passive-aggressive, aggressive-aggressive crazy people, and in the existential purgatory that is Lockdown, they are us. Staged Series 2 is now streaming[...]
Marjorie Finnegan: AWA Teases Garth Ennis’ Time Travel Caper Comedy
The series is a gleeful time travel heist comedy with art by Goran Sudzuka and colors by Miroslav Mrva. "Marjorie Finnegan #1" cover art, AWA Studios, Upshot Studios "Time is on her side." She's Marjorie Finnegan She's a temporal criminal What more do you need to know?  Oh, all right then: all Marj wants to do is race up[...]
saturday night live
Lauren Holt (The Filth), Punkie Johnson (Space Force), and Andrew Dismukes (Comedy Central's Colossal ClusterFest, New York Comedy Festival) are joining the cast as feature players. Alec Baldwin returned as Donald Trump, with Maya Rudolph joining them as Kamala Harris, and Jim Carrey as Joe Biden for part of the season before cast member Moffat took over[...]
Our 5 Favorite Shows That Make Us Laugh Again and Again
Source: Comedy Central "Broad City": One of the funniest and "most realest" shows about women living in NYC, and yes I'm including Sex and the City in that conclusion Very raw and honest about the hilarious and depressing parts of the feminine experience of life and the general life in a big city, this show does[...]
RESIDENT ALIEN -- "Pilot" Episode 101 -- Pictured: (l-r) Corey Reynolds as Sheriff Mike Thompson, Sara Tomko as Asta Twelvetrees, Alan Tudyk as Harry Vanderspeigle -- (Photo by: James Dittinger/SYFY)
Now, the cast and creative team behind the comedy-drama-sci-fi-mystery series (and we know we left off some other genres) are taking viewers on a fun-filled deep-dive of what they need to know about the series- and what to do if you find yourselves living with an alien It's important to know what to expect, you[...]
CBS All Access is changing its name this March. (Image: ViacomCBS)
The series will be produced by Creature Films and MTV Studios. "The Real Criminal Minds": A true-crime docuseries based on the hit CBS Television series, and produced by XG Productions in association with CBS Television Studios and ABC Signature. "The Game": The service is also developing a revival of The Game as part of BET's programming on[...]
The Latest Preview Of 'The Great North' Goes Ham On Some Cake: Review
Source: FOX There's plenty of opportunities for The Great North to get more comfortable and let loose when it comes to the style of comedy it wants to go with With the two previews before the series' premiere on February 14th, there's a conflicting sense of what type of show we'll end up getting I'm hoping[...]
Reno 911! will be returning for Season 8 later this year. (Image: Roku)
One of the original selling points of the short-length programming provider Quibi was the return of the beloved Comedy Central series- and the series didn't disappoint But Quibi did Big time So big in fact that "The Greatest Innovation of 2020" ended up going belly-up by the end of the year (and reportedly $2B-plus with[...]
Dead Pixels Series 2: E4 Sets Two-Episode Premiere for January 26th
Good things come to those who wait, as fans of online gaming comedy series Dead Pixels learned on Wednesday with the news that the second series from BAFTA award-winning writer Jon Brown is set to return to E4 on January 26 with a two-episode premiere at 10 pm (with the full series available on All[...]
WandaVision released a new teaser (Image: screencap)
Because it's a cliche of sitcom comedy when the husband or boyfriend gets into "whacky shenanigans" trying to make up for the anniversary he forgot- but what do you do when the couple can't remember what they're supposed to be celebrating? (Image: screencap) So make sure to mark your "Calendar" so you won't be late- Marvel Studios[...]
Our Flag Means Death: Rhys Darby Joins Taika Waititi Pirate Comedy
Oscar winner and multi-Emmy Award nominee Taika Waititi (What We Do In The Shadows, Jojo Rabbit) and writer David Jenkins (People of Earth) have found their head pirate for HBO Max's upcoming period comedy series Our Flag Means Death With Waititi set to executive produce and direct the pilot, Rhys Darby (Wrecked, "Jumanji" film franchise)[...]