Comedy
Nathan Fielder’s The Rehearsal Renewed for Second Season
HBO is shelving a lot of its original content as of late, but fortunately those cost cutting measures won’t impact Nathan Fielder’s brilliant series, The Rehearsal. Ahead of tonight’s season one finale, HBO has handed down a season two order for The Rehearsal. Not surprisingly, the network didn’t offer any sort of preview of what Fielder might have in story, because even they are in the dark. “We have no idea where season 2 will take us, and that is the delight of this boundary pushing show from a truly singular talent,” said Amy Gravitt, Executive Vice President, HBO Programming, in a statement. Advertisement Related Video In our review of the early episodes of The Rehearsal’s first season, Robert Ham said the show cemented Fielder’s status as a comic visionary. “There aren’t many shows, ...
Dan Levy Joins Cast of Sex Education Season 4
Sex Education classes are almost back in session, and this time around, Dan Levy will be teaching a class of his own. Netflix has announced that the Schitt’s Creek star has joined the cast of the series for Season 4. The addition of the breakout comedian is just one of many changes in the Sex Ed world. When the show last ended, Moordale Secondary was shut down, Maeve (Emma Mackey) accepted an offer to study in the United States, and pretty much every star of the show became a breakout actor in their own right. In Season 4, Levy plays Thomas Molloy, a famous author who serves as Maeve’s US course tutor. Thaddea Graham (Doctor Who), Marie Reuther (Kamikaze), Felix Mufti, Anthony Lexa, Alexandra James, and Imani Yahshua are also joining the show’s cast. Advertisement ...
Bo Burnham Announces Inside (Deluxe) Triple-LP Box Set
It’s not time to go back outside just yet: Bo Burnham has today announced a deluxe box set of the music to Inside — his pandemic Netflix special from last year — as well as the recently-released The Inside Outtakes, which you can also watch on Netflix now. Inside (Deluxe) arrives on a triple-LP vinyl format, comprises songs like “Bezos I”, “All Eyes On Me,” “White Woman’s Instagram,” and all the other songs from Inside that made their way over to TikTok. In addition to the tracks you know and love, you’ll hear 13 new songs as well as 13 score tracks from both Inside and The Inside Outtakes. Burnham’s webstore will stock a limited number of autographed RGB-colored pressings, while Target and Urban Outfitters will each carry their own exclusive co...
Beavis and Butt-Head Are Quite the Catch in Preview Clip of Episode 3: Exclusive
Beavis and Butt-Head try to track down some chicks but prove to be quite the catch themselves in an exclusive new clip from Mike Judge’s Beavis and Butt-Head. The third episode of the revived series premieres tomorrow, August 11th on Paramount+, but to hold you over, you can check out 80 seconds of pure silliness below. The clip opens with everyone’s favorite butt munchers paddling down the river like Huck Finn (more like, ‘Suck my Finn,’ heh heh heh). Beavis is feeling a little snackish, and luckily he spots a tasty treat: a gummy worm, or so he thinks. What follows is a classic bit of slapstick that wouldn’t have been out of place in golden age silent movie. Check it out after the jump. So far, the revived series has been a mix of old pleasures and new surprises, including Beavis’ e...
Bandai Namco Announces “Live-Action” Pac-Man Film and Oh God We Hope He’s Animated
Pac-Man is a creature, we think: an all-mouth being who can do nothing to quench his infinite appetite no matter how much he eats, even as he is pursued by ghosts and trapped in a maze from which there is no escape. Bandai Namco wants to turn that premise into a family comedy, The Hollywood Reporter notes, announcing a “live-action” adaptation that will either haunt our dreams or ignore the meaning of the words “live-action.” Pac-Man will be based on an idea from Sonic the Hedgehog producer Chuck Williams, though it’s not known if he’s one of the people responsible for that terror beyond mortal comprehension, Sonic with teeth. No plot details are known and no talent is attached — the project doesn’t exist, except in the fevered imaginations of men who see...
Armando Iannucci to Create Superhero Spoof The Franchise for HBO
How does HBO feel about superhero movies? Well, one week after parent company Warner Bros. Discovery canceled the HBO Max-exclusive Batgirl film, the network has ordered The Franchise, a comedy series from Armando Iannucci that satirizes the making of a superhero flick. Written by Iannucci, Jon Brown, and Keith Akushie, The Franchise follows a movie crew hoping to make the next superhero blockbuster. Of course, now more than ever, we know that whether such a film will flop or flourish is not just about the story, but about the desires of a money-hungry industry. Brown serves as executive producer and showrunner of the series, and Marina Hyde is attached as another writer and executive producer. Sam Mendes is set to direct the pilot. Iannucci is no stranger to satir...
Daddy Issues
James Morosini’s I Love My Dad, which won both the audience and Grand Jury Award at the 2022 SXSW Film Festival, is a masterclass in cringe comedy. Morosini stars as Franklin, a troubled young man fresh off a suicide attempt. His father, Chuck, played with an incautious tenacity by Patton Oswalt, has been desperately trying to get a hold of him. We are first introduced to Chuck via a series of pathetic voice messages to his son. Chuck is a deadbeat. He might mean well, but the man seems to lack even the most basic skills of parenting. Rule numero uno: show up. Establishing his boundaries, Franklin blocks his father across the social media board. And that’s when the fun (a relative term) begins. Totally misunderstanding an anecdote told to him by a coworker (played by Lil Rel Howery), ...
Tenacious D’s Jack Black and Kyle Gass on ’90s Alt-Comedy and the Story of Their Career
Listen via Apple Podcasts | Spotify | Google Podcasts | Amazon Podcasts | Stitcher | Pocket Casts | Radio Public | RSS It’s the podcast of destiny as Jack Black and Kyle Gass of Tenacious D join Kyle Meredith With… Advertisement The hard rocking comedy duo talk about their contribution to the Audible Original Words + Music series, Tenacious D: The Road to Redunktion, which sees them telling the story of the band from their early beginnings to the present day. They detail the orchestrated music that was written for the series, debate dynamic ticketing, and their plans to get the vote out for the upcoming midterms during next month’s tour. (Get tickets to those dates here!) Black and Gass also tell us about the early ...
10 Films Canceled Before They Made It to Theaters
The recent merger of Warner Bros. and Discovery has already transformed the entertainment industry. As the companies’ streaming services, HBO Max and Discovery+, combine, HBO Max has canceled a slew of its original series, and on August 2nd, Warner Bros. shelved its planned Batgirl film despite the $90 million project already being filmed. HBO Max had originally planned to introduce a slew of streaming-exclusive DC Extended Universe films, but according to The Hollywood Reporter, new Warner Bros. Discovery CEO David Zaslav opted to kill Batgirl and take the tax write-off instead. Zaslav plans to switch the company’s strategy completely and revert back to producing streaming films for a much smaller budget. Killing an expensive film in post-production seems like a shocki...
Maturity is Scarce in Archer Season 13 Trailer: Watch
TV’s favorite narcissistic secret agent is returning for a lucky 13th season. FXX has today shared the official trailer for the upcoming Season 13 of Archer head of its premiere on August 24th. In this go around of the ever–evolving adult cartoon, Archer and The Agency have been acquired by Fabian Kingsworth and the spy conglomerate known as IIA (International Intelligence Agency), who assign odd missions to the crew. In-between jobs, the crew struggle to find their identity amid this change, fearing that they might succumb to the corporate overlords in the process. “I’m looking for one of you to take the mantle of leadership,” Fabian tells the members of The Agency in the trailer, juxtaposed with a montage of all the spies’ rather foolish recent mishaps. “Until now, I’ve been the car...
How to Get Tickets to Gabriel Iglesias’ 2022 Tour
Gabriel Iglesias is set to hit the road again for his appropriately titled circuit, “Gabriel ‘Fluffy’ Iglesias Back On Tour,” so if you weren’t one of the 56,000 fans who grabbed tickets to the comedian’s sold-out Dodger Stadium show earlier this year, you’ll have plenty of chances to catch his headlining set with a whole new list of dates announced. Get tickets here, and read on for more details including pre-sale dates. What Is Gabriel Iglesias’ Next Tour? Iglesias’ ongoing trek will resume in Verona, New York on August 5th, then spend the majority of August in the Midwest between Minnesota, Ohio, Indiana, and Oklahoma. He plays two nights in Santa Ynez, California on August 26th-27th, then opens the next month with a series of two-a-day’s in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania on September 2nd, Atl...
Whitmer Thomas Announces New Album The Older I Get the Funnier I Was, 2022 Tour Dates
Whitmer Thomas has unveiled his new album, The Older I Get the Funnier I Was, as the follow-up to his March EP Can’t Believe You’re Happy Here. It was produced by Jay Som’s Melina Duterte and arrives October 21st. The comedian-musician will embark on a newly-announced Fall 2022 North American tour directly after (grab your tickets here). The Older I Get features contributions from Duterte, Al Menne of Great Grandpa, Christian Lee Hutson, and Phoebe Bridgers’ guitarist Harrison Whitford. It was partially inspired by the reaction to Thomas’ acclaimed 2020 HBO special The Golden One — particularly the surprisingly muted response from residents of Alabama where most of his coming-of-age material was set. In a statement, he shared, “In the years I’d been performing that show, I’d been romantici...
