@TrumpComedyNerd’s Official Statement on Splitsider’s Move to Vulture

Earlier this year, we announced that Splitsider was acquired by Vulture and that we were working together to launch a new and expanded comedy section on Vulture later this month. Ahead of our big move, we asked the President of Comedy Nerds himself, @TrumpComedyNerd, to release an official statement reflecting on Splitsider’s eight years covering comedy on […]

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NBC Cancels ‘Great News’ After Two Seasons

Another day, another cancellation. Just a day after Fox canceled Brooklyn Nine-Nine, The Mick, and The Last Man on Earth, now TV Line reports that NBC has handed out a cancellation of its own to Tracey Wigfield and Tina Fey’s workplace comedy Great News. The series was originally ordered back in 2016 and wrapped up its […]

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Reggie Watts on ‘Taskmaster,’ Keeping It Simple, and Spending Time with His Mom

Reggie Watts is keeping very busy this year. In addition to his gig on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Watts recently kicked off his latest project hosting Comedy Central’s new series Taskmaster, which premiered just a few weeks ago and currently airs on Friday nights. Based on Alex Horne’s hit British game show […]

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Reggie Watts on ‘Taskmaster,’ Keeping It Simple, and Spending Time with His Mom

Reggie Watts is keeping very busy this year. In addition to his gig on The Late Late Show with James Corden, Watts recently kicked off his latest project hosting Comedy Central’s new series Taskmaster, which premiered just a few weeks ago and currently airs on Friday nights. Based on Alex Horne’s hit British game show […]

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HBO’s ‘Animals’ Returns for Season 3 in August

HBO’s animated series Animals just got a season 3 premiere date. The network announced that the show, which was renewed a year ago, will return on Friday, August 3rd at 11:30pm. Produced by the Duplass Brothers and created by Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano, the show is slated to feature a ton of celebrity guests […]

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HBO’s ‘Animals’ Returns for Season 3 in August

HBO’s animated series Animals just got a season 3 premiere date. The network announced that the show, which was renewed a year ago, will return on Friday, August 3rd at 11:30pm. Produced by the Duplass Brothers and created by Phil Matarese and Mike Luciano, the show is slated to feature a ton of celebrity guests […]

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TBS Renews ‘The Detour’ for a Fourth Season

Jason Jones and Samantha Bee’s TBS comedy The Detour will return for another season. The network just announced that it’s handed out a season 4 renewal to the show, which stars Jones and Natalie Zea and wrapped up its season 3 run back in March. For more on the show, check out our interview with Jones […]

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Things Are Looking Up for the Recently Canceled ‘Brooklyn Nine-Nine’

Thanks to an outpouring of fans after the news broke yesterday that Fox had canceled Brooklyn Nine-Nine, it appears to be extremely likely the show will find another home. According to a new report from The Hollywood Reporter, Universal Television “has plans to fight to revive the series” and has received “a number of incoming […]

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Netflix Orders Six More Episodes of ‘The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale’

Thanks to some news from Netflix today, Joel McHale gets to make more Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale. According to Variety, the streaming network has ordered six more episodes of the half-hour show, which will expand season 1 to a total of 19 episodes. The show was originally picked up for 13 episodes back […]

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@Arianna_Durnell’s Target Audience Is “Absolutely No One” (But Follow Her Anyway!)

Arianna Durnell (@arianna_durnell) is a New York-based comedian whose writing has been published on McSweeney’s, Reductress,Women In Comedy Festival Daily, and The Belladonna Comedy. Her sketch comedy has been featured on WhoHaha and Comedy Cake. She is currently performing and writing sketch comedy in the duo Bag of Rocks, which made Mogul’s list of comedians to look out for in 2018. This week, Durnell talked to […]

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