The Just For Laughs Comedy Festival has unveiled its list of top up-and-coming comedians in New York, Los Angeles and elsewhere, who are set to participate in the New Faces of Comedy showcase later this week. The event is a traditional launch pad for major Hollywood talent like Kevin Hart, Amy Schumer, Kumail Nanjiani and Jimmy Fallon.
The success of their careers makes New Faces the industry’s biggest coming-out party for rising stand-up talent serious business. Young hopefuls eyeing Hollywood development deals grab the microphone at Just For Laughs in Montreal to draw laughter from a club audience as Los Angeles talent scouts, comedy agents and managers, TV execs and club bookers look on.
No pressure there. Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson, who will receive the best comedy person award at the Just For Laughs ComedyPro conference later this week, was part of the New Faces comic discovery program in 2017.
Over three days,...
The success of their careers makes New Faces the industry’s biggest coming-out party for rising stand-up talent serious business. Young hopefuls eyeing Hollywood development deals grab the microphone at Just For Laughs in Montreal to draw laughter from a club audience as Los Angeles talent scouts, comedy agents and managers, TV execs and club bookers look on.
No pressure there. Abbott Elementary creator Quinta Brunson, who will receive the best comedy person award at the Just For Laughs ComedyPro conference later this week, was part of the New Faces comic discovery program in 2017.
Over three days,...
- 7/24/2023
- by Etan Vlessing
- The Hollywood Reporter - Movie News
A new social video startup launches today, offering a new way for viewers to experience videos on Netflix, Hulu and YouTube.
Scener’s new platform allows anyone to create, share and watch synchronized commentary about streamed movies and TV shows. These “hosts” appear in the picture-in-picture panel that overlays the video, allowing for a more social viewing experience. (Think “Twitch” for the rest of us.)
Social media influencers, such as YouTube’s Filup Molina and breakout Vine star Hannah Pilkes, have narrated favorite movies, TV episodes and other videos. Pilkes offers her comedic play-by-play reaction to the The Santa Clarita Diet, Gossip Girl and Friends, while Molina unpacks fan theories behind Breaking Bad.
Other hosts include pop culture expert and best-selling author of Seinfeldia, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, who lends her expert insight into plot development for Seinfeld, and Marc Bernardin, Marvel and DC comic writer and co-host of podcast Fatman...
Scener’s new platform allows anyone to create, share and watch synchronized commentary about streamed movies and TV shows. These “hosts” appear in the picture-in-picture panel that overlays the video, allowing for a more social viewing experience. (Think “Twitch” for the rest of us.)
Social media influencers, such as YouTube’s Filup Molina and breakout Vine star Hannah Pilkes, have narrated favorite movies, TV episodes and other videos. Pilkes offers her comedic play-by-play reaction to the The Santa Clarita Diet, Gossip Girl and Friends, while Molina unpacks fan theories behind Breaking Bad.
Other hosts include pop culture expert and best-selling author of Seinfeldia, Jennifer Keishin Armstrong, who lends her expert insight into plot development for Seinfeld, and Marc Bernardin, Marvel and DC comic writer and co-host of podcast Fatman...
- 9/6/2018
- by Dawn C. Chmielewski
- Deadline Film + TV
An upcoming arrival on Go90 will give four funnywomen a platform through which they can display their comedic chops. Sorry Not Sorry, a sketch series co-produced by Astronauts Wanted, Diga Studios, and Complex Networks, will arrive on July 25.
Each of Sorry Not Sorry’s eight episodes will consist of brief clips that will be loosely connected by a central theme. These scenes will be played out by four performers, including Manon Matthews and Hannah Pilkes, both of whom had substantial followings on Vine back when Twitter’s six-second video platform was still a thing. Joining them will be Esther Ku, who has appeared on MTV’s Girl Code, and Traci Stumpf, who has landed hosting gigs on digital platforms like ClevverTV and terrestrial channels like MTV.
The significant MTV ties among the Sorry Not Sorry cast should not come as a surprise, given that Judy McGrath, the exec at the top of Astronauts Wanted,...
Each of Sorry Not Sorry’s eight episodes will consist of brief clips that will be loosely connected by a central theme. These scenes will be played out by four performers, including Manon Matthews and Hannah Pilkes, both of whom had substantial followings on Vine back when Twitter’s six-second video platform was still a thing. Joining them will be Esther Ku, who has appeared on MTV’s Girl Code, and Traci Stumpf, who has landed hosting gigs on digital platforms like ClevverTV and terrestrial channels like MTV.
The significant MTV ties among the Sorry Not Sorry cast should not come as a surprise, given that Judy McGrath, the exec at the top of Astronauts Wanted,...
- 7/7/2017
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Astronauts Wanted, a joint venture of former MTV Networks CEO Judy McGrath, Sony Music Entertainment and Diga Studios (Scream, Teen Wolf) have teamed with Complex Networks on Sorry Not Sorry, an eight-episode female comedy sketch show, for premiere July 25 on Verizon’s go90. Featuring rising comics Manon Mathews, Esther Ku, Traci Stumpf and Hannah Pilkes, Sorry Not Sorry takes inspiration from viral shortform content and is an extension of the casts' existing work on…...
- 7/7/2017
- Deadline TV
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