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Nigerian comedian and content creator, Egbaopewa Comedy, shares her journey to stardom, her childhood dream of being a newscaster, and her advice to others Read More: https://punchng.com/before-stardom-with-egbaopewa-comedy/

Nigerian comedian Bovi Ugboma has concluded his ‘Guilty as Charged’ world tour with a final show at the Eko Convention Centre in Lagos. Read More: https://punchng.com/bovi-closes-world-tour-with-lagos-comedy-night/

"The '94 version is apparently a serious drama," Steven E. de Souza quips to The Hollywood Reporter about social media reactions to the franchise's latest theatrical release.

Luca Guadagnino's Simon Rich-penned film, which deals with dark subject matter but also evokes laughs, was one of the last big question marks ahead of Friday's Golden Globes submission deadline.

EXCLUSIVE: Kate O’Flynn, the Emmy-winning Widow’s Bay breakout, is among three new additions to Universal’s new holiday comedy, Naughty, starring Jennifer Aniston and Peter Dinklage. BAFTA winner Jamie Demetriou (The Moment) and Dexter Sol Ansell (A Knight of the Seven Kingdoms) are also set. Character details for the trio are being kept under wraps. Directe

EXCLUSIVE: Jay Roach and longtime producing partner Michelle Graham are on board to produce a new female-driven ensemble comedy for New Line, Deadline has learned. The film’s title and plot are being kept under wraps for now. Larry Stuckey & Joanna Leeds are adapting the screenplay from a story they conceived with Joanna’s brother, Andrew […]

EXCLUSIVE: U.S. distributor-producer Angel is behind original comedy series Shelf Life from the producers of Biblical drama The Promised Land. Created, written and directed by Brian Cates and produced by Milk & Honey Studios, the comedy is currently in production and is set to premiere exclusively on the Angel platform in 2027. Cast includes Jim […]

Joey King (“Bullet Train,” “The Act”) and Oscar-nominated LaKeith Stanfield (“Judas and the Black Messiah”) are set to star in “Safe Space,” a provocative sci-fi comedy about toxic relationships from Independent Spirit Award-nominated filmmaker Gillian Wallace Horvat (“I Blame Society”). French sales outfit Lucky Number is launching sales on the project at t

EXCLUSIVE: Here’s your first look at upcoming R-rated comedy Mini War, starring Luke Wilson, Vanessa Hudgens, and Nick Swardson . Capture will be selling the film ahead of, and at, the American Film Market in ten days. Reuniting creatives behind the 2006 comedy Grandma’s Boy, the film is directed by Joel David Moore (Avatar) from […]

The only thing rarer in the horror canon than a good holiday film is a good comedy. “Christmas at the Kringles” manages to miss the overlap in that Venn diagram by being awful on both counts: deeply cynical about the Yuletide season but also just completely unfunny. This failure all the more baffling given a […]

EXCLUSIVE: Two-time Oscar winner Renée Zellweger will play a faded TV actress who gets a shot at redemption in the real world in Sacha Gervasi-directed high concept comedy drama, Darlington, which will be kicking off foreign sales at AFM. A spring production next year in the UK is in the works. The Rocket Science, Monumental […]

EXCLUSIVE: OneTwoThree Media is launching worldwide sales ahead of the AFM on the sci-fi feature Life 2.0, written and directed by Star Trek alum Michael Dorn (Star Trek: The Next Generation, Star Trek: Deep Space Nine), who also stars. Dorn is joined in the film by fellow Star Trek franchise vets Marina Sirtis (Star Trek: […]

The ‘Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In’ creator, who launched the careers of Goldie Hawn and Lily Tomlin, is getting a documentary feature about his seven-decade career to bow across digital platforms on Dec. 8.

Netflix has unveiled the cast and a first image for Simon Verhoeven’s German-language romantic comedy Oktoberfest, set against the backdrop of the country’s world-famous beer festival in Munich. Jeanne Goursaud (Exterritorial) costars as an Oktoberfest waitress and single mother with a complicated personal life opposite Jannis Niewöhner (22 Bahnen) as a stre

EXCLUSIVE: Banijay America has made a strategic move into creator-led comedy through a partnership with Don’t Tell Comedy, one of the fastest-growing stand-up brands in the United States. Together with Banijay Rights, the global distribution arm of Banijay Entertainment, the deal brings Don’t Tell Comedy’s 14 million followers and 115 hours of stand-up conte

Turns out, the people still seem to want Nobody Wants This. Season 3, which premiered October 22, debuted with Netflix’s best opening weekend for a returning scripted comedy series this year, per the latest data. It took No. 2 on the English-language television rankings from October 19 to 25 with 6.2M views in its first […]

EXCLUSIVE: The Matrix co-creator Lilly Wachowski has boarded writer-director Molly Ratermann’s murder-bachelorette comedy Making A Bridesmaid as executive producer, with her production company, Anarchists United, also joining the completed feature. Wachowski’s involvement brings her genre expertise to a film that is said to playfully subvert horror and comed

Cube wrote the script and will star in 'Last Friday,' the first installment of New Line's buddy comedy series since 2002.

EXCLUSIVE: Riley Voelkel and Shiva Negar will lend their voices to adult animated comedy series Above Average. The show, which is in late-stage development, comes from creators Andrew Deutsch and Cailin Walker-Bent at Canadian animation collective Red Pants Productions and Josh Harris at JVH Media in the UK. Above Average is billed as an irreverent […]

The ‘Office’ writer Anthony Q. Farrell and ‘Schitt’s Creek’ scribe Teresa Pavlinek are behind the sitcom set to premiere on Nov. 2 from creators and stars Karim Adam Ahmed and Adrian Neblett.

EXCLUSIVE: CAA has signed Landon Mauk and Riley Mitchell, a pair of cousins better known as comedy duo Bloodline Banter. Mauk and Mitchell are a Nashville-based pair with zero filters, too many opinions, and absolutely no plans to mind their own business. They’ve gained an online following with their namesake podcast, where they’ve demonstrated a […]

EXCLUSIVE: Stoic has acquired international sales rights (excluding North America) for Unbearable Christmas, the holiday comedy starring SNL alum Alex Moffat, Julia Stiles, David Cross, Caroline Rhea, Mena Suvari, and Stephen Root. Stoic will officially launch sales for all available international territories at the upcoming American Film Market (AFM) in Los

Juno Temple (“Ted Lasso,” “Fargo”), Joey King (“We Were the Lucky Ones,” “The Act”) and James McAvoy (“The Last King of Scotland,” “Atonement”) are set to star in the upcoming — and somewhat timely — sci-fi AI comedy movie “Almost You.” The film, currently shooting in Glasgow, is being directed by Matt Lipsey, whose credits include multiple […]

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When Elizabeth Debicki arrived on set for “Wicker,” the first thing she saw was Alexander Skarsgård wading through water — full-frontal. But it wasn’t Skarsgård in the flesh; he was “stark naked as wicker.” “I turned the corner, and I was like, ‘Hi, Alex!’ and I went bright red because my brain couldn’t compute what […]

From missed flights to wrong turns, the golden rule of improv comedy might just be the ultimate travel philosophy.

Film critic Matt Singer believes the early 2000s were a golden age for comedy movies. His new book "Funny Business" details the rise of the "Frat Pack" genre.

After three decades in the Hollywood system, Reno 911! co-creator Robert Ben Garant is venturing outside of it for his next series, set in the world of satirical tabloid fixture Weekly World News. The project, on which Garant will serve as co-showrunner/executive producer alongside frequent collaborator fellow Reno 911! alumna Cathy Shim, will film a […]

EXCLUSIVE: Since resurfacing over the summer as a generator of original stand-up with the announcement of Stand-Up Selects, a new compilation of short sets, Comedy Central has been teasing a return to full-length specials. Now, we know what their first new hour will be. Their first full-length special in a couple of years is Eyes […]

Brooklyn bar owner Debbie Shields won the love of the internet after a quick-witted exchange with Conan O'Brien on "Subway Takes." Shields shares her thoughts on next steps.

EXCLUSIVE: German outfit BriskPace Studios, launched in 2025 by Al Munteanu with the team behind his SquareOne Productions, has launched BriskPace Unlimited, a new-formats label. The label’s first original series is set with The Light and Hard Times of Lucky Briscoe, a true-crime comedy about an imprisoned orangutan with political ambitions, co-produced with

EXCLUSIVE: Comedic multi-hyphenates Kate Berlant (The Moment) and John Early (Maddie’s Secret) are the latest additions to Naughty, the holiday comedy from Universal marking director Olivia Wilde’s follow-up to the lauded A24 chamber drama The Invite. Character details are being kept in Santa’s sleigh. The duo joins a cast led by Jennifer Aniston and Peter [

England were left exhausted before the start of their Rugby League World Cup campaign because of a travel schedule straight out of Planes, Trains and Automobiles, head coach Brian McDermott says.

Starring White Lotus alums Britton and Sam Nivola, Phony will leave you questioning what is and isn’t real.

Olivia Wilde is directing the feature that has a 2027 release date.

Ron Funches is back with another stand-up comedy special. The comic, actor and fan-favorite from “The Traitors” will debut his new hour, “Eat Cookies & Die,” on the indie comedy streamer Gorilla Comedy+ on Nov. 2. The special will then launch on YouTube on Dec. 1. Funches is in “top form” in “Eat Cookies & […]

Μια παράσταση stand-up comedy που υπόσχεται άφθονο γέλιο, συγκίνηση και ενθουσιασμό παρουσιάζει για δύο βράδια την Παρασκευή 30 και το Σάββατο 31 Οκτωβρίου 2026, στις 20.30, ο Γιάννης Σερβετάς, στο Μέγαρο Μουσικής Θεσσαλονίκης (ΑΙΘΟΥΣΑ ΑΙΜΙΛΙΟΣ ΡΙΑΔΗΣ Μ2). Αδειάζει τη βαλίτσα του επί σκηνής και από μέσα της βγαίνουν, ξεκαρδιστικές ιστορίες από την οικογένειά

From a University College London professor to ‘Gen-Z’s favourite economic commentator’, David McWilliams’ festival ‘has truly gone global’ this year

England’s past is blended with its present in a novel that shows dark side of the nation’s sensibility