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The South African comedian, who was in Singapore for three comedy shows from Nov 3 to 5, played pickleball with local enthusiasts and actress Jaime Teo, and even gave some of his fellow players complimentary tickets to his performances.

A young Singaporean couple who sell pictures of the wife’s feet online end up with a corpse in their freezer in “Build to Order,” the debut feature from director Huang Junxiang, which is at the Taiwan Creative Content Fest (TCCF) in Taipei this week. Singaporean couple Penny and Allan both work in real estate. They […]

Comedian Leo Reich created and stars in the A24-produced six-parter about three 20something best friends in London, with Lena Dunham and Andrew Scott among guest stars.

The show airs live on CBS and Nickelodeon on Nov. 14.

In a first look at The Gallerist, Natalie Portman and Jenna Ortega make a killing with a piece of art that has everyone talking. Following its Sundance premiere earlier this year, Roadside Attractions and Vertical have released the first trailer for the star-studded Art Basel Miami dark comedy from co-writer and director Cathy Yan, which […]

Ahead of the American Film Market, Studio Dome has snatched up worldwide sales and distribution rights to “Out of Order!,” a legal comedy starring Brandon Routh, Brooke Shields and Luis Guzmán. Guy Jacobson directed and co-wrote the film with Megan Freels Johnston. An official logline for “Out of Order!” reads, “A lawyer trying to turn […]

It was just like any other pitch to investors: justify the valuation, address the risks and make lots of impressive-looking pie charts and graphs. Except this time, Pete McEntegart wasn’t raising money for a tech startup, he was selling shares of himself. The 57-year-old North Carolinian had tried his hand as a Goldman Sachs investment […]

The comedian, actor and YouTuber has had ups and downs throughout a tumultuous career. A conviction on charges of rape and sexual assault was a new low.

A towed car, frozen bank account and passive-aggressive comments from gossiping pilates moms are just a few of the unfortunate events that happen to Cameron Diaz in Netflix’s “Bad Day” trailer. The “big-heart mom-com” film, which hits the streamer on Dec. 11, gives a glimpse of just how bad this day will get in its […]

EXCLUSIVE: Kate Mara (The Martian), Leslie Mann (Knocked Up), Ashton Kutcher (Your Place or Mine) and Billy Eichner (Bros) are set to star in Home Shopper, a dark comedy from director Tilman Singer (Cuckoo). Based on the Dev Patel-directed 2018 Sundance short of the same name, Architect has launched international sales on the suburban thriller […]

EXCLUSIVE: At long last, we’re getting a Bobby Lee comedy special — the first hour of his 30+ year comedy career, aptly titled Bobby Lee: Finally. It’s slated to premiere exclusively on Hulu on November 27. In the trailer, which you can view above, Lee riffs on growing up with immigrant parents who speak with […]

EXCLUSIVE: Genre specialist WTFilms has boarded comedy-thriller The Dregs, about a group of friends whose trip to the Italian Alps takes a terrifying turn after they drink a cursed bottle of Grappa, for an AFM sales launch. The movie brings together a buzzy cast, announced by Deadline earlier this year, featuring Stephen Lang (Don’t Breathe) […]

Malkovich’s failing Mephistopheles never becomes a hero but we come to sympathise with his plight

The new "Cat in the Hat," it goes without saying at this point, makes no attempt to be a faithful adaptation of Dr. Seuss’s most fabled books. That would simply be too quaint for our buzzy, mercurial, attention-crashing, video-games-on-Ritalin era. Yet even as the movie departs all too eagerly from the innocent wildness of the Seuss books, it devotes itself,

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Paul Bettany is set to play an ageing popstar in upcoming feel-good comedy “It’s Alright,” which he also co-wrote. The “Master and Commander: The Far Side of the World” and “VisionQuest” star will appear alongside fast-rising actor and musician Asha Banks (“My Fault: London,” “Your Fault: London”) as his estranged daughter and aspiring singer-songwriter. Col

KG Mokgadi wants to be your mayor. That’s how bad things have got. In Poll Dancing, Politically Aweh’s live elections comedy special, you can learn everything you need to know before 4 November: how your ballot works, who’s funding the parties, what the polls say, and one deeply regrettable AI pole dance.

A new screenwriting lab in India wants to steer the country’s horror films away from ghost stories and horror-comedy hybrids. Independent outfit Platoon One Films will pick 15 writers for a three-month program built around original genre scripts. The Platoon One Horror Lab will run entirely online, and each of the 15 participants will bring […]

The renewal comes on the heels of the show's first season finale.

HBO has given a Season 2 order to “Youth,” the latest series from Peabody and BAFTA winner Sharon Horgan. The series’ Season 1 is currently streaming on HBO Max. In the show, Horgan plays a 50-year-old divorcee navigating relationships, her ailing parents and her troubled son, who isn’t quite gelling at his new college. Horgan […]

Variety Awards Circuit section is the home for all awards news and related content throughout the year, featuring the following: the official predictions for the upcoming Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and Tony Awards ceremonies, curated by Variety chief awards editor Clayton Davis. The prediction pages reflect the current standings in the race and do not reflect […

Simón and Raimundo Bucher’s “L4IK4,” Roberto’s San Sebastián’s “The Hostess” and Javier Attridge’s “Beneath the Flesh” weigh in as potential standouts at the 7th edition of the Sanfic Mórbido Lab, now a fixture on Latin America’s genre scene, part of Sanfic Industria, which runs Nov. 2-8 in Santiago de Chile. In its totality, however, with […]

Peter Farrelly's film and its star Anthony Ippolito had been widely expected to compete on the drama side of the ledger.

The Richard Lewis Humor & Humanity Gala, dubbed "a night of comedy and neurosis," is set to take place at Hollywood Improv in Los Angeles on Nov. 15. Jeff Garlin will host and Nick Kroll will present.

There’s an apocryphal quote attributed to the late, great George Carlin: “It’s the duty of the comedian to find out where the line is drawn and cross it deliberately.” If that’s true, few have crossed it more frequently—or more fearlessly—than Sacha Baron Cohen. Very few, also, have had the global impact in feature comedy that […]

EXCLUSIVE: Principal photography has wrapped on satirical horror comedy Get Off Your Phone, the feature directorial debut of Chelsea Frei (The Paper). Frei wrote the screenplay and stars alongside Oscar nominee Maria Bakalova (The Apprentice) and Jon Rudnitsky (Saturday Night Live). The film “follows Daniela (Frei), a canceled influencer who retreats to rura

The comedian and online creator will also develop and produce other series for the streamer.

Dominic West (“The Crown”), John Cleese (“A Fish Called Wanda”) and Portia de Rossi (“Arrested Development”) have joined Jeff Daniels in “The Reception,” Trudie Styler’s ensemble comedy. Beta Cinema is launching international sales on the project at the American Film Market, which kicks off Nov. 10. CAA is representing domestic rights. The cast also includes

Zarna Garg is bringing a stand-up comedy special to Netflix. The tagline for the currently untitled special, which will debut on the streamer in 2027, says that it “will go where Garg previously hasn’t — embracing being American!” She “finds that being American isn’t half bad. She’s discovered the beauty of saying no. She’s learned […]

Edgar Wright has slammed an upcoming Blu-Ray re-release of “Spaced,” the cult comedy series that ran on British TV from 1999-2001 and would make heroes of himself plus its stars Simon Pegg, Nick Frost and Jessica Hynes, largely because he had no idea about it. Finding out about this for the first time is… disheartening,” […]

“Mission: Impossible” star Simon Pegg is set to play a Hollywood agent in upcoming dark comedy “My Phone Died,” with Mark Duplass (“The Morning Show,” “Creep”) and Haley Joel Osment (“Sixth Sense,” “Blink Twice”) also attached to star. Set to shoot in the spring of 2027. the film comes from filmmaking duo Hannah Leder and […]

Amy Poehler got earnest about her love for comedy while accepting an honor at the WSJ. Magazine Innovator Awards. “There’s no greater joy for me than laughing at people who I love — laughing with them and at them, both! And them laughing with me,” Poehler said on stage at the ceremony, which took place […]

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 […]