On the latest episode of Full Frontal With Samantha Bee, our host took a beautiful rhetorical dump on the Republican Party, whose comrades in the Senate recently rejected four extremely sane measures restricting gun sales one week after 49 people were murdered in an Orlando gay club.
The Season 4 finale of Inside Amy Schumer—or its “contractually obligated clip show”—took the form of a very contentious Real Housewives-style reunion, which included several strong New Jersey accents, the phrase “I sinceriously apologize,” and your host, Andy Cohen.
I feel embarrassed to have loved Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping as much as I did. It was brilliant, stupid and incisive—exactly the kind of thing we like here, in other words—and when I finally met the trio at a press junket, I was unexpectedly nervous, and my tongue felt both too big and too dry. The only thing…
The new Vanity Fair profile on Amy Schumer, written by Bruce Handy, is fairly unremarkable (unless, like me, you’re shocked that a national publication would use the word “comedienne” and feign shock over a female comic working blue in 2016)—that is, until Schumer opens up about the tragic movie theater shooting that…
A trailer has been released for Time Traveling Bong, a three-part Comedy Central miniseries starring Broad City’s Ilana Glazer and the hardbodied Paul W. Downs, and it looks very dumb and fun.
Earlier this month, Elizabeth Banks launched a new website, ironically and terribly named WhoHaha, which offers a digital platform for women in comedy. WhoHaha features original videos by women, both well-known and newly starting, as well as curated videos. “This is an opportunity,” Banks recently told AdAge. “There…
I have watched the trailer for The Lonely Island’s latest movie POPSTAR: Never Stop Never Stopping every single day since it came out. The day it was released, I watched the trailer five or six times. Honestly it could be more than that; I don’t really remember. I found out a close friend hadn’t seen the trailer this…
If one sole force in this farce of a universe can bring down the campaign of presidential hopeful Donald Trump, who speaks as if he has a perpetually-thwarted O-face, it won’t be the hacker group Anonymous, nor Ben Sasse, nor John Oliver’s #Drumpf hashtag activism. No, dear readers: it will be at the hands of Ayesha…
Tina Fey is weary of folks acting like she should be grateful for the small strides comedy has made towards gender equity, and we all continue to be weary of people requesting cookies for doing what they’re supposed to do.
On Wednesday, Kate McKinnon, one of the women keeping you tuned in to Saturday Night Live, visited The Ellen DeGeneres Show as… Ellen. If you like McKinnon’s wide-eyed impressions, then you’re in for a treat.
On the weekend of the Nevada Democratic caucus, there’s a lot of political trash to kick out of your way on the Internet. Here are some attempts at humor that have tripped me up.
One year ago today, comedian Harris Wittels passed away from a heroin overdose. Although he died much too young at the age of 30, his impressive career included writing and executive producing Parks and Recreation as well coining the term “humblebrag.”
Garden rose of our hearts Uzo Aduba continues to dazzle with the power of her screen presence while simultaneously charming us all to death. At last night’s Screen Actors Guild Awards she won the award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series — and who was there to escort her? Her high school…
Early this week, the founder of Improv Olympic (iO), one of the most important comedy theaters in the country, inadvertently lit a fire under the Chicago comedy community’s ass.
Amy Poehler and Rashida Jones, who both starred on NBC’s Parks and Recreation, are returning to the network with two new comedies. According to the Hollywood Reporter, NBC has ordered pilots for two shows executively produced by both women.
Over the weekend, three female comedians accused Amy Schumer of stealing jokes for material ranging from her television show to her standup special Amy Schumer: Live at the Apollo, and even her hit movie, Trainwreck. It began when Wendy Liebman wrote in a now-deleted tweet, “Between Amy Schumer doing 1 of my best…
At the Critics’ Choice Awards on Sunday night, Judd Apatow presented Amy Schumer with the MVP Award, but not before taking the opportunity to call out the odd categories at the Golden Globes (The Martian is inexplicably categorized as a comedy, and—“I have an Asian man in my movie, can I be a foreign film now?”). He…
During a stand-up set in 2014, comedian Hannibal Buress levied a blunt accusation at Bill Cosby that intensified the media’s attention to allegations of rape and sexual assault against him.
After comedian Beth Stelling came forward on her Instagram in late December with photos of bruises and stories of alleged rape and abuse by another comedian, a man named Cale Hartmann, the response from the comedy community has been solid: women especially have made statements of unequivocal support for Stelling, and…
In late December, comedian Beth Stelling alleged via Instagram that she had been raped and abused by her ex-boyfriend but refused to name him. The man in question, a comedian named Cale Hartmann, has since been identified.
