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International Relations

The 'Peep Show' Creators Turned Down 'Flight of the Conchords'

by | May 17th, 2013

UK comedy writers Sam Bain and Jesse Armstrong, who co-created Peep Show and Fresh Meat, were forced to say no to the opportunity to create another well-known comedy series. Speaking to Ken Plume on his delightful longform conversation podcast A Bit of Chat this week, Sam Bain revealed that the duo had agreed to co-create Flight of the Conchords with Jemaine Clement and Bret McKenzie but had to turn the job down because of their commitment to Peep Show. Here's Bain recalling what happened:

"I remember Series Four, we had a horrible decision to make because we were about a week away from flying to LA to co-create [...]

International Relations

Stephen Colbert Makes His Last Appeal to Sweden

by | June 22nd, 2012

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Sweden announced it's going to make a decision next week on whether or not to let Stephen Colbert run their national Twitter account, @Sweden. It's a bit odd to make the decision to announce you're going to make a decision at a later time, especially when you're a national government, which makes one suspect they already decided to let Steelly Colb run the account but they need to get their PR ducks in a row. [...]

International Relations

John Oliver Single-handedly Repairs America's Relationship with the Muslim World

by | February 15th, 2013

The Daily Show sent correspondent John Oliver to sit down with the Secretary General of the (OIC) Organisation of Islamic Cooperation to fix America's relationship with the Muslim world once and for all. Who ever knew international relations were this easy?

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A Netflixed 'Arrested Development' Season 4 For U.S. Eyes Only

by | May 2nd, 2012

Hola, bonjour, ciao, Shalom, merħba, hello (in a Canadian, British, Irish, Australian, or South African accent), if you understand any of those greetings, you probably won't be able to watch the new Arrested Development episodes on Netflix (also you might be Maltese. If so, where is Malta?) Netflix stated recently that, “the return of Arrested Development exclusively on Netflix will be in the U.S. only.” U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A. U.S.A. This probably means that Netflix only bought a domestic license for the show and some company from every other country will have to figure out how to bring it their people. This might mean more traditional distribution [...]

International Relations

Billy Eichner Reports on Madonna and the Issues Facing Israel (but Mostly Madonna)

by | June 29th, 2012

There are a lot of pressing issues facing Israel but Billy only cares about one: Madonna. OK, so Madonna might not be an issue but the people need know what her five hairstyle changes are going to be. (Maybe cornrows, regular hair, and ponytails in three directions?) If anything, it's impressive that even in Israel, where crazy shit happens all the time, Billy is still able to frighten old ladies.

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