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Jim Queen imagines a virus that straightens gay men, then plays it for farce
10+ hour, 12+ min ago (29+ words) Martin Cid Magazine Tags: animation, Alex Ramirès, Jérémy Gillet, Jim Queen, Marco Nguyen, Nicolas Athané...
Golden Axe’s Meta-Comedy Works Because Matthew Rhys Plays It Dead Straight
2+ day, 1+ hour ago (641+ words) Martin Cid Magazine Press Enter to Search A parody of a beat-’em-up survives on one discipline: somebody has to refuse to wink. The first trailer for Golden Axe is stuffed with the jokes you would expect a cartoon about…...
Pearl Studio gives the Eight Immortals a heist-movie origin in All Wishes Come True!
1+ week, 1+ day ago (567+ words) Martin Cid Magazine Press Enter to Search Before they were immortals, this telling proposes, the Eight Immortals were crooks. All Wishes Come True! opens on that inversion. Two mortals with their eyes on a heavenly vault decide the shortest path…...
From The Big Bang Theory’s background to HBO Max’s biggest comedy win in years
1+ week, 1+ day ago (406+ words) Martin Cid Magazine Press Enter to Search HBO Max has renewed the series for a second season, the announcement coming just four episodes into a ten-episode run. The timing is its own argument: the streamer did not wait for the…...
Tires Season 3 hits Netflix, and Shane Gillis’s tire-shop comedy is now a franchise
1+ mon, 1+ week ago (1008+ words) Martin Cid Magazine Press Enter to Search A tire shop in suburban Pennsylvania is a strange place to build an empire. Fluorescent light, a waiting room with bad coffee, a floor manager who cannot get his own cousin to stop…...
Rowan Atkinson, the Oxford engineer who conquered the world without words
1+ week, 4+ day ago (743+ words) Martin Cid Magazine Press Enter to Search He grew up the youngest of four brothers in rural County Durham, the son of a farmer and company director. The stammer he has carried since childhood becomes almost inaudible in performance — a…...
A podcast, a promise, and four countries: Conan O’Brien Must Go returns for Season 3 on HBO
2+ week, 3+ day ago (480+ words) martincid.com Press Enter to Search The premise of Conan O’Brien Must Go was specific enough that it should have worn thin. A comedian who shaped a generation of American late-night television — the monologue, the desk, the perpetual machinery of…...
Ricky Gervais Alley Cats on Netflix looks like a filthy cat cartoon — it is After Life in animal form
2+ week, 2+ day ago (138+ words) Tags: Netflix, Ricky Gervais, adult animation, Diane Morgan, Kerry Godliman, Ricky Gervais Alley Cats Personal data can be processed (e.g. recognition features, IP addresses), for example for personalized ads and content or ad and content measurement. Some of our 1 partners process…...
Chris Kattan and Horatio Sanz bring Concert Heroes to Comic-Con with a comedy that puts the fans on stage
4+ week, 1+ day ago (590+ words) An indie comedy with no franchise, no studio and no pre-sold intellectual property behind it has talked its way into one of San Diego Comic-Con’s bigger rooms. Concert Heroes premieres its trailer at the Indigo Ballroom of the Hilton San…...
Pete Holmes, the comedian who lost his faith, kept the wonder and made it funnier
1+ mon, 3+ day ago (135+ words) The New York comedy circuit in the early 2000s was not especially hospitable to earnestness. Holmes arrived anyway, started getting spots at clubs, appeared on VH1’s Best Week Ever and All Access, and slowly developed a voice that seemed to come…...