This season of Parks and Recreation shows troubling signs that the writers no longer believe new audiences are going to discover Leslie and her gang. With the addition of a ludicrously winnable election plot, every episode congratulates its characters for being so terribly lovable, rather than expanding many new dimensions. One character told Leslie she Read More
Congrats to Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson, the Upright Citizen Brigade alums whose web show Broad City is now in development talks for an FX pilot. This is no small part due to both the girl's hilarity and its major endorsement by UCB founder Amy Poehler.
Now, if only there was a way to talk about this show without immediately pigeonholing it as part of the new "Women are funny too!" push on the part of cable programers--The New Girl, Whitney, and 2 Broke Girls all come to mind-- while still recognizing these comedians as the growing contingent of recognizable, hilarious female comedians.
...Nope. Too difficult. How about we just watch the trailer instead, which features Ms. Poehler along with NYC comediennes like Andrea Rosen, Adira Amram, and Kristen Schaal?
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It took two years, but the Upright Citizen’s Brigade Theatre has finally opened its long-awaited East Side location. The venue, called UCBEast or The Beast, has suffered numerous setbacks since its conception including liquor license hold-ups, complaints about the sign in front ("Hot Chicks Room," a winking reference to a sketch from the UCB television show) -- and most bizarrely, neighborhood complaints about the theater’s red curtains on the windows. (Apparently red curtains scream "Hot Chicks Room" just as much as a sign does.) Read More
5 Fearless Emmy Predictions: Glee, Amy Poehler and Read More
Jimmy Fallon, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler and Seth Meyers play Read More
Monday: Bored to Death
Since Sunday nights are so crowded, you’ve probably let Bored to Death slip through the cracks. Good thing then for DVR and Monday night rebroadcasts! The HBO comedy, about a Brooklyn novelist-turned-private eye isn’t necessarily the funniest new show of the fall—that would be Community [Editor's note: Modern Family!]—but it’s certainly one Read More
Late Night With Jimmy Fallon is by far the nerdiest late night show on network television. Our Twittering, video-blogging host has welcomed tech bloggers and Diggnation dudes as headlining guests; he's showcased the latest gadgets—from XBox 360's wireless controller to the Palm Pre—on his show and we (mostly) love him for it. With the help Read More
It's 2 a.m. and you awake with a jerk, alone in your fully lit apartment and still on the couch. On TV, the credits of some movie you've already seen a billion times are scrolling by. It feels like rock bottom. And we know, because we're just like you: single.
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We’ve been called “nice” by enough members of the opposite sex to know that it isn't necessarily a compliment. However, slowly but surely, it appears that the adjective is making a comeback (and for our social life, not a moment too soon). While the news this year has been dominated by increasingly bleak stories—economic strife, Read More
After NBC spent months telling us that Parks and Recreation was in no way a spin-off of The Office, despite coming from “the people who bring you The Office”, co-starring former Office star Rashida Jones, and being shot in a faux-documentary style with no laugh track, the series premiered last night, and, you know what? Read More
As the Television Critic Association winter press tour rolled on yesterday, NBC made a slew of announcements regarding The Office. Some of it, like the news that B.J. Novak (aka Ryan) will return in the spring following his filming of Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds, were mundane. Other stuff, like the decision by NBC Read More
In the new film The Mystery of Claywoman, about a 500-million-year-old woman/prophet everyone seems to be looking for, Amy Poehler appears in a series of sketches for the film with Debbie Harry as her French lesbian lover who writes a book about Claywoman. The film, which was written and performed by Michael Cavadias and Read More
Observer.com entertainment writer Chris Rosen thinks that David Paterson is right to be angry about the Saturday Night Live skit. (Also: he thinks that Fred Armisen and Amy Poehler have grounds to be offended too.)
We guess after the year that Saturday Night Live had, it couldn't just go quietly into 2009 without some form of controversy. During this past weekend's final episode of the year, hosted gamely by Hugh Laurie and featuring a disastrous performance by Kanye West, one of the skits took dead aim at New York Read More
We've had a number of problems with the path The Office has taken over the course of the past two seasons. Nearly everything, from making Michael into a clownish cartoon character to the totally stillborn love triangle between Dwight, Angela and Andy (a story arc that just stinks of time filler), has felt wide of Read More
