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Chelsea Handler is to return to stand-up for the first time in six years with a new special for HBO Max. The WarnerMedia streaming service has greenlit the special, which marks Handler’s first special since her Netflix special “Uganda Be Kidding Me: Live” in 2014. The special comes as she recently finished a tour for …
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Comedian Joe Rogan has signed a deal to air his popular podcast, The Joe Rogan Experience, exclusively on Spotify. Rogan’s podcast currently receives tens of millions of downloads per month, and is currently available for free on YouTube and Apple’s podcast app. Spotify, a streaming services platform, offers listeners free access to content with ads, …
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There’s a reason, beyond its catchy title, that “Dead Still” has quickly gained a foothold in the crowded TV universe. The Acorn TV series, starring Michael Smiley as a “post-mortem photographer” in 19th century Dublin, plays as a darkly comic (with touches of slapstick) crime thriller that offers a fascinating look into a weird Victorian-era …
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Hannah Gadsby still has tales to tell. The 42-year-old Australian comic, whose revelatory 2018 stand-up special vaulted her to seemingly overnight international stardom, is back in a trailer for her upcoming second Netflix show, titled “Hannah Gadsby: Douglas.” In it, she worries that she may have used up all of her best material in her …
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Hulu’s new ‘toon “Solar Opposites” will benefit from the fandom of “Rick and Morty,” Adult Swim’s extremely popular animated series that’s stamped itself into pop culture and even has its own line of merchandising — the mark of a keeper. “Solar Opposites,” premiering Friday, springs from the minds of “Rick and Morty” co-creator Justin Roiland …
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They mix funny business with pleasure. Kim and Penn Holderness — the family behind some of Facebook and YouTube’s most-shared funny videos — are no strangers to bad news. So when the former New York City journalists-turned-online comedians first began their coronavirus lockdown last month, they knew they had to joke about it to make …
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His name is Seinfeld. Jerry Seinfeld. The 65-year-old comic channels legendary spy James Bond in a teaser for his upcoming Netflix stand-up special, “Jerry Seinfeld: 23 Hours To Kill,” which premieres May 5. The trailer borrows from the infamous “Goldfinger” scene in which the title villain threatens to slice a tied-down 007 in half with …
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Eddie Murphy is back on the stand-up comedy circuit after a long break, and soon, he’ll be in your living room. The legendary comedian, along with Adam Sandler, Chris Rock, Tiffany Haddish, Howie Mandel, Billy Crystal, Kevin Hart, Marc Maron, Marlon Wayans, Margaret Cho, Tim Meadows, Jon Lovitz, and more have joined the star-studded lineup …
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Robbie Amell has made a name for himself starring in sci-fi shows (“The Flash,” “The X-Files”) and rom-coms (“The Duff”). His new Amazon comedy, “Upload,” combines the two genres. “I love comedy and I love sci-fi, that’s kind of where my taste lives,” Amell, 31, tells The Post. “I knew that I wanted [to do] …
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David Byrne has revealed how Jerry Seinfeld re-wrote a joke in Byrne’s hit Broadway show “American Utopia” after seeing it. The Talking Heads legend, 67, appeared on Amy Schumer’s podcast, “3 Girls, 1 Keith,” where Schumer admitted she had been to see Byrne’s show so many times that the backstage crew came to greet her. …