Arrested Development star Portia de Rossi went on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night and brought a new clip from Arrested Development's upcoming Netflix season with her, which features her, David Cross, and guest star Ed Helms, who was previously unannounced. Helms is reprising his role as real estate agent James "I Don't Sell" Carr(s), a character in the show's Season 2 premiere before he was all famous and stuff.
Here's the first released clip from The To Do List, a new comedy starring Aubrey Plaza and written/directed by Maggie Carey (Funny or Die Presents) that's set to hit theaters August 16th. Bill Hader, Donald Glover, and Andy Samberg play supporting roles, and you can see them for two seconds each in this clip.
Archer is the best workplace sitcom on television. I suppose it's a decent spy-parody, too.
The FX animated show, pitched as "James Bond meets Arrested Development" by creator Adam Reed, enters its fourth season tonight, looking for new places to go after the third season began with a three-part pirate adventure, detoured to missions around the globe, and closed with a two-part mission in space reminiscent of James Bond in Moonraker. But all of the spy-aesthetics are secondary to the running jokes and squabbling character dynamics that make the show much more Arrested Development in nature (not to mention Jessica Walter's warped maternal dynamic with H. Jon Benjamin's titular [...]
You still have another 27 days to wait until the Community season premiere on February 7th, but here's Joel McHale, Danny Pudi, and Jim Rash introducing some brand new footage from the first Dan Harmon-less episode, which is a Hunger Games parody. It's time to give in on the whole "resisting watching Hunger Games" thing so that you can catch all the references in this Community episode. You have a month to get over your Hunger Games fear.
Here's a sketch from the new season of Portlandia (premiering Friday) in which a bunch of people try to talk about TV without using spoilers and end up spoiling everything. If you haven't seen every episode of every TV show ever, you should be careful about watching this sketch.
Conan writer Deon Cole has a new show debuting on TBS June 10th, and here's he is in a promo telling you to watch it. It's called Deon Cole's Black Box, and it involves Cole sharing his take on pop culture each week – just in case you want another comedian's take on pop culture on a weekly basis.
If you haven't been watching Comedy Central's new show Nathan for You this season, you're missing out. It's easily the best new comedy of the year. Sure, we're only three months into the year, but it's still a really great, funny show, and tonight's episode, which involves star Nathan Fielder staging a fake reality show to get women to like him, looks pretty spectacular.
Adult Swim's new Childrens Hospital spin-off Newsreaders, a fake newsmagazine program hosted by Louis La Fonda (played by Mather Zickel), debuts this Thursday at midnight, but the network has uploaded the pilot to YouTube early in order to reel fans in. If you thought you'd never see Dan Rather and Brian Posehn on the same show, think again.
Here's a brand new clip from Nick Kroll's Comedy Central series Kroll Show in which he and SNL writer John Mulaney reprise their "Oh, Hello" characters, George St Geegland (Mulaney) and Gil Faizon (Kroll). Kroll and Mulaney created the characters, a pair of Alan Alda-obsessed, Upper West Side, middle-aged divorcees, whom they've played onstage and in viral videos since 2008. In this clip, George and Gil are hosting a prank show called Too Much Tuna, pulling a fun joke on Gil's stepson Elon (played by Kroll Show writer Joe Mande). Kroll Show premieres next Wednesday at 10:30, but is it too soon to start hoping for an "Oh, [...]
Comedian Nick Kroll's new sketch series, Kroll Show, kicks off on Wednesday, January 16th, and Comedy Central has released two sketches from the show online. Here's the first, in which Kroll plays a basketball referee who's desperate to hang out with NBA players. Hit the jump for a sketch in which Nick Kroll and Jenny Slate both play publicists named Liz. Nick Kroll continues to be great and funny at playing terrible, pathetic people.
Vince Vaughn is hosting SNL tomorrow with musical guest Miguel, and here he is with cast member Bobby Moynihan trying to convince you to watch the show. An episode hosted by Vaughn's doppelganger Vinnie (Jay Pharoah) who only says Vince Vaughn movie titles actually sounds pretty awesome.
Comedy Central is releasing two new shows, Nathan for You and The Ben Show, on February 28th, and they just dropped a clip from each one online. In Nathan for You (above), comedian and business degree-holder Nathan Fielder (Jon Benjamin Has a Van) tries to help out struggling small businesses in exciting and sometimes questionable ways. The Ben Show (below) stars comedian Ben Hoffman (InfoMania, Sports Show with Norm Macdonald) in a sketch/man-on-the-street/hidden camera hybrid. You have a month to watch these clips and to decide whether you want to watch these shows or not, which is plenty of time to make such a decision.
This Sunday, the show the internet loves to argue about returns to HBO for its second season. That's Lena Dunham's Girls, of course, a half hour comedy that's been called everything from zeitgeisty to depraved to… god, I am not going to repeat that voice-of-a-generation quote that's always misinterpreted.
Many critical pixels have been posted about Girls, the recipient of extreme praise (to which I've certainly contributed) and much criticism, some totally fair, much some variety of pearl-clutching or
Nikki Glaser and Sarah Schaefer's new late night MTV comedy show Nikki & Sara Live, spun off from their popular podcast You Had to Be There, premieres Tuesday, January 29th at 11pm. Here's the first released clip from the show, which features Nikki and Sara harassing people with inane questions on the streets of New York. The show is still in production, so stay safe, New York pedestrians!
Hit the jump for another clip from the show in which Nikki and Sara explain how to get a talk show:
