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Adult Swim has picked up a second season of the animated comedy Tuca & Bertie, the animated series that was canceled last year at Netflix. The network has greenlit a 10-episode Season 2, with the option for more. The comedy stars Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong and revolves around the friendship between Tuca (Haddish), a…

Netflix is about to serve a flood of funny in Los Angeles with its Netflix is a Joke Fest, set for April 27-May 3. For one week, the streaming giant is partnering with Live Nation to bring over 100 live shows and events to various venues in L.A. with recorded shows available on the platform later this year. Netflix Is…

Are BoJack Horseman veteran Lisa Hanawalt's 30-year-old BBFs (Best Bird Friends) in her new Netflix animated series, Tuca & Bertie, a sort of surreal Mary Richards and Rhoda Morgenstern for millennials?  Or are insecure songbird Bertie, voiced by Ali Wong, and her crazy Toucan gal pal Tuca, portrayed by Tiffany Haddish…

Netflix’s new animated series Tuca & Bertie follows two gal pals and their experiences as women in the world. More specifically, a bird world. Created by Lisa Hanawalt (BoJack Horseman), the series follows the friendship between two 30-year-old bird women who live in the same apartment building. Tiffany Haddish lends…

Ladies and gentlemen —your new fave comedy duo is here. Netflix released a teaser for the upcoming rom-com Always Be My Maybe starring Ali Wong and Randall Park which also announced the release date of May 31 — which is a great way to end Asian Pacific American Heritage Month. Set to Mariah Carey’s song on which the…

Can two birds share the same apartment building without driving each other crazy? We’ll soon find out, as Tuca & Bertie, the tale of two 30-year-old bird women, bows at the Tribeca Film Festival and via Netflix. Tuca & Bertie is an animated comedy series about the friendship between Tuca (Tiffany Haddish), a cocky…

Netflix has slotted Friday, May 3 for the premiere of animated series Tuca & Bertie starring Tiffany Haddish and Ali Wong as bird women. The internet network also released a first-look featurette at the series which stars Haddish as Tuca, a cocky, care-free toucan, and Wong as Bertie, an anxious, daydreaming…

EXCLUSIVE: Ali Wong, the stand-up comic, writer and actor, has been set to provide the lead voice in Bonfire, the next VR project from Emmy-winning VR/AR producer Baobab Studios. Baobab co-founder Eric Darnell, who co-directed and co-wrote all of the Madagascar films as well as Antz!, wrote and is directing Bonfire…

Keanu Reeves and Daniel Dae Kim will be flexing their comedy muscles in Netflix’s Always Be My Maybe, starring Ali Wong and Randall Park. Production is currently underway in Vancouver with Nahnatchka Khan directing from a script by Wong, Park, and Michael Golamco. Rounding out the cast are Michelle Buteau, Vivian…

Martin Short drew raucous laughter Friday night at a comedy event titled “Netflix Is a Joke.” The gathering at Raleigh Studios in Hollywood was held to promote the streaming giant's ever-growing lineup of stand-up comedy specials and as part of its Emmy campaign push. Short was joined by fellow comedians Tig Notaro…

Actress-comedian Ali Wong is set to star opposite Tiffany Haddish in Tuca & Bertie, Netflix’s upcoming 10-episode animated comedy series produced by Michael Eisner's The Tornante Company. Created by Lisa Hanawalt (BoJack Horseman), the animated comedy is about the friendship between two 30-year-old bird women who live…

A very pregnant Ali Wong is headed back to Netflix for her second original stand-up comedy special. In Ali Wong: Hard Knock Wife, the always unapologetic and nasty first time mom gets real on why having kids is not all it’s cracked up to be, including the challenges of breastfeeding, balancing family and career post…