Kevin Hart’s LOL, Sundance Institute Launch WomenWriteNow Screenwriting Fellowship

Laugh Out Loud, Kevin Hart’s comedy network, has partnered with the nonprofit Sundance Institute to launch Women Write Now, a screenwriting fellowship for Black women in comedy. Approximately 10 finalists will be invited to interview with a jury …

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The trailer for “Happy Happy Joy Joy: The Ren & Stimpy Story” is here

Back in 2017, we first reported that there was a Ren & Stimpy Show documentary in the works and even… MORE
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Comedy films making premieres at Sundance 2020

The Sundance Film Festival has announced its programming slate for 2020. Last year, Amazon emerged as the big distributor of comedies, acquiring both Last Night and Brittany Runs A Marathon. The sublime satire Greener Grass also debuted this January in…

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Episode #277: Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe

Jocelyn DeBoer and Dawn Luebbe are an award-winning writing and directing team based in Los Angeles. They became friends and collaborators while performing together in New York City on an Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre sketch team called Onassis. The…

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Sundance Institute launches Comedy Central Fellowship

The Sundance Institute in Utah will start devoting more time and space to comedy, thanks to a brand-new comedy fellowship from Comedy Central. The Sundance Institute | Comedy Central Comedy Fellowship will establish a grant to fund one Comedy Fell…

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Sundance Institute launches Comedy Central Fellowship

The Sundance Institute in Utah will start devoting more time and space to comedy, thanks to a brand-new comedy fellowship from Comedy Central. The Sundance Institute | Comedy Central Comedy Fellowship will establish a grant to fund one Comedy Fell…

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Mindy Kaling movie snags $13 million Amazon deal at Sundance

Mindy Kaling is getting paid! Amazon bought the U.S. rights to the Office star’s movie Late Night for a record-breaking $13 million. This total exceeds any previous U.S. distribution deal for a movie from the Sundance Film Festival. The film was written and produced by Kaling, who also co-starred with Emma Thompson. Late Night premiered on Friday at Sundance and is already being called a crowd pleaser. In the movie,

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David Wain’s Doug Kenney/National Lampoon biopic, Robin Williams documentary both will premiere at 2018 Sundance Film Festival

The Sundance Film Festival has announced its slate of world premieres for January 2018, and among them are two notable new comedy projects. Futile and Stupid Gesture, David Wain’s biopic of Doug Kenney, co-creator of The National Lampoon, as well as the screenwriter of Animal House and Caddyshack, stars Will Forte as Kenney (pictured above […]

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Brett Gelman and Janicza Bravo’s Sundance hit “Lemon” gets a trailer and release date

Earlier this year, filmmaker Janicza Bravo and comic Brett Gelman — two artists who just happen to be married —… MORE

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Frankie Shaw’s SMILF jumps from Sundance short film to Showtime series

Frankie Shaw’s short film, SMILF, won the jury award at the Sundance Film Festival a couple of years ago and garnered further interest from Showtime. The pay-cable network announced it’s fully invested now in SMILF, ordering up 10 episodes of a half-hour comedy series partially based on Shaw’s own life as a single mother. She’s […]

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