Tickets for this year’s Onion Comedy & Arts Festival are flying out the door—How Did This Get Made? sold roughly 4,000 tickets in about 48 hours, for example—so some more shows are being added. We’ve got a late Bitch Sesh show with Casey Wilson and Danielle Schneider at the Athenaeum Theatre on June 1 at 10 p.m., and…
Big news, comedy fans: Our comedy festival returns May 30-June 3 at various venues in Chicago under a new name, The Onion Comedy & Arts Festival. Why change the name from the amusing-but-difficult-to-remember-and-Google 26th Annual Comedy Festival? Well one, see above. And two, it’s The Onion’s 30th anniversary in…
For the past couple of years, The A.V. Club has used its 11 Questions feature to ask celebrities about their first concerts and most embarrassing phases. Part of that feature—the 12th question—also asked the interviewee to come up with a question for the next interview subject without generally knowing who they were.…
In 11 Questions, The A.V. Club asks interesting people 11 interesting questions—and then asks them to suggest one for our next interviewee.
Black-ish is back after a short break! “ToysRn’tUs” is a great return to form for the show. It feels like a typical Black-ish episode––Dre and Bow get caught up in a political fury while the kids do their own thing––but “ToysRn’tUs” turns Black-ish’s critical eye on itself. After Diane receives a white doll for her…
TV fans first fell for Adam Pally as schlubby and hilarious Max on the gone-too-soon Happy Endings, a beloved sitcom that still has quite a cult following. He followed it with another well-received turn as bro-tastic Peter on The Mindy Project, then appearances in a variety of indie films like Don’t Think Twice and …
Tina Fey’s new NBC comedy has just found its star, as Deadline reports that Happy Endings alum and all-around ”amahzing” person Casey Wilson has been cast as one of the leads in The Sackett Sisters. The single-cam comedy comes from Fey and Robert Carlock, and will see Wilson and Busy Philipps play sisters (has someone…
If you’ve followed Tig Notaro at all in the past couple of years, you know the general outline of her new Amazon show One Mississippi. You know the comedian had myriad health problems including breast cancer. You know her mom died. Her experience has been chronicled in a documentary called Tig, in a memoir, and in …
Bajillion Dollar Properties was the first big hit on NBC’s comedy-based streaming service Seeso, which is why it got Seeso’s first-ever second-season renewal back in April. Now, Seeso has already announced when viewers will get a chance to return to Platinum Realty to spend time with its ragtag gang of morally…
We realize that seeing “Casey Wilson” “Hulu” and “comedy” all strung together in a sentence might raise hopes about Happy Endings finally being properly revived by the streaming company, which is sadly not the case here. But that disappointment will surely dissipate upon reading the rest of this post, for Vulture reports
The cast of the critically-acclaimed but short-lived ABC sitcom Happy Endings reunited at last weekend’s Vulture Festival in New York to reminisce about their much-missed series. According to The Hollywood Reporter, creator David Caspe was joined by stars Eliza Coupe, Elisha Cuthbert, Zachary Knighton, Adam Pally,…
Ladies and gentlemen, start your engines: It’s time for a RESIDENT SCRAMBLE! After struggling against its big ensemble for the past two episodes, Grey’s Anatomy embraces the key benefit of having so many players—the ability to mix them up into different pairings. “Odd Man Out” is a kind of “bread and butter” episode…
With over 250,000 podcasts in existence, there seems to be a show for just about everything. Do a quick search and you’ll find thousands about fantasy sports, hundreds about upcoming Apple products, and dozens about the art of coin collecting. But amazingly, before last November, there wasn’t a single podcast devoted…
Though one would would be hard-pressed to discern this from the impressionistic montage that is this trailer, Me Him Her seems to be about a guy (Dustin Milligan) who travels to L.A. to help his TV actor friend (Luke Bracey) come out of the closet, only to find himself hurled into a tumultuous relationship with a…
Though a mysterious benefactor has pledged to use his/her fortune to fund a Happy Endings movie, the beloved ABC comedy series still doesn’t show any sign of coming back soon. It’s alright, though, because Casey Wilson has lined up another pilot that should help kill the time between now and whenever that mysterious…
Every time there’s even a tiny hint at a chance of a Happy Endings revival, we start krumping and busting out the celebratory drunk ribs, only to then find out it was all a sick joke. On Entertainment Tonight yesterday, Casey Wilson shared some potentially ah-mahzing news: A super-rich person has offered to fund a Happy Endings movie
In 5 To Watch, five writers from The A.V. Club look at the latest streaming TV arrivals, each making the case for a favored episode. The reasons for their picks might differ, but they can all agree that each episode is a must-watch. In this installment: Happy Endings, which started streaming on Hulu this month.
At this point, hopefully everyone knows that “Baby It’s Cold Outside” is a non-stop creepfest. What masquerades as a cheerful little holiday ditty is really a hellscape of a song with messages of entrapment and date rape, and almost murderous undertones. And while acts like She & Him have tried to make it palatable…
According to The Hollywood Reporter, ABC is developing a new comedy from a handful of people that you might know from the world of podcasting, disproving the common theory that everyone on a podcast is either a Paul F. Tompkins or an Andy Daly character. The project is titled Crystal, and it revolves around a woman…
It’s November, which means that soon, many people will find themselves spending 36 hours (or more) in transit to spend a single holiday and/or share a 4-hour meal with relatives. And they’ll grumble, or post irate (possibly fake) tweets about the ordeal. But even the horrors of Black Friday pale in comparison to…
