Episode #327: Dan Ahdoot

Dan Ahdoot is a stand-up comedian who has performed on The Tonight Show, and developed TV shows with FOX, CBS, NBC and Freeform. But Ahdoot is enjoying his greatest success now, with recurring roles on not one but two Netflix hit series — as a car sale…

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Episode #278: Matt Besser

Matt Besser is known as one of the co-founders of the Upright Citizens Brigade, which began as a sketch comedy group in Chicago, moved to New York City, got a TV series on Comedy Central, and opened up theaters and schools teaching improv and sketch co…

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Episode #274: Evan Shapiro

Evan Shapiro had run cable TV stations IFC, Sundance Channel, and Pivot before he launched Seeso, a streaming comedy service owned by Comcast and NBCUniversal in 2016. Shapiro went independent for a couple of years after that, but in May 2019, he took …

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“Harmonquest” lives on with a third season renewal on VRV

It wasn’t too long ago when Seeso streaming service was delivering us all of our comedy wants and needs then… MORE
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Episode #225: Mo Mandel

Mo Mandel is a stand-up comedian who created and executive produces Comedy Knockout for truTV, where comics zing each other and try to win over the studio audience. Before that, he hosted truTV’s BARmageddon and appeared more than 40 times on the panel of Chelsea Lately. You’ve seen him as a co-star on such TV […]

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The facts and fantasy of the “comedy gold rush” in 2018 Los Angeles

Comedians had a fine time last week chewing on and chewing out a feature in The Hollywood Reporter purporting to take a snapshot of the “L.A. Comedy Gold Rush” happening right now. It’s easy from my perch to see how this all went askew. First, the headline. Any problematic news report usually has a misleading […]

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Starz has acquired several former Seeso series and specials

Good news for fans of Seeso programming! Starz, a cable channel/network still in operation and continuing into the foreseeable future, has acquired several series and specials launched during the brief era of Seeso, NBCUniversal’s short-lived hope for a comedy streaming platform. We already knew that Take My Wife, starring comedians Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher […]

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Seeso’s “Take My Wife” finds new home on iTunes, Starz

After several months in TV purgatory following the death of Seeso, Take My Wife has found two new takers! The first and second seasons of the comedy about married comedians Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher starring themselves and their friends became available Monday on iTunes. Come May, Take My Wife also will be available for […]

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Seasons 1 and 2 of Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher’s ‘Take My Wife’ Are Now on iTunes

Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher’s Seeso comedy Take My Wife has found a new home after a long stretch of homelessness. The two announced today that seasons 1 and 2 are now available via iTunes, making today the official premiere of the 8-episode second season. The show originally debuted on Seeso back in August 2016 […]

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