Maeve Higgins: Comedians are stumbling their way back to funny
Stand-up is immediate in the way few other crafts manage to be — so we can't just ignore Covid, writes Maeve Higgins.
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Stand-up is immediate in the way few other crafts manage to be — so we can't just ignore Covid, writes Maeve Higgins.
Comic-Con@Home 2021 Guide: What and When To Watch The July 23-25 virtual event features panels on The Walking Dead, Chucky, Dexter revival, and more! (Photo by AMC; Brendan Meadows/SYFY; Ed Araquel/Paramount Pictures) Despite the fact Comic-Con International had to cancel a second in-person San Diego Comic Convention, they are putting on another Comic-Con@Home later this week. Like the name implies, the four(ish)-day event tries to approximate some of the feel of a traditional Comic-Con International: San Diego via a selection of panels focusing on comics, games, animation, and at least a f...
The comedian opens up about her new film Together Together, maintaining autonomy and her outrageous Twitter ban.
Austin 360 Who gets to have a family? "Together Together" wants you to think about it when you're not laughing. Poke around for deets on writer-director Nikole Beckwith’s radiant film and you’ll see chatter about it being an anti-rom com, which it is. But there’s much in this indie dramedy to warm those long left cold by American cinema’s tried-and-untrue formats. The film, starring Patti Harrison and Ed Helms, hit theaters on April 23. Matt (Helms), a man in his 40s who works as an app developer, wants to start a family. He’s single. It’s just … nothing has worke...
Annie Easton, the funny, forthright, plus-sized writer played by SNL‘s Aidy Bryant on the Hulu comedy Shrill (★★★★☆), ended season two of the series on a high note. Having established herself as the star writer at Portland alt-paper The Weekly Thorn, as well as establishing healthier boundaries with her doting mom and dad, she closed out a productive period by rightly dumping her sweet but incredibly clueless boyfriend and office copy-room fuck-buddy, Ryan (Luka Jones). Picking up two months after Annie let Ryan go, season three finds her reveling in the single life. “I eat m...