Refresh for updates. A growing roster of celebrities are stepping up to humiliate themselves for a good cause: John Oliver, Judd Apatow and Sarah Silverman are just a few famous faces sharing their awkward years as part of the #PuberMe challenge, launched when Nick Kroll and Stephen Colbert shared photos from their…
EXCLUSIVE: Melanie Laurent has been set to play the female lead and Nick Kroll has been set to play an Israeli operative in Operation Finale. They join Oscar Isaac in the MGM drama about the successful hunt and capture of notorious Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann in Argentina in the 1960s. Ben Kingsley is playing…
Film Independent and IFC have renewed their exclusive agreement for IFC to telecast the annual Film Independent Spirit Awards in the U.S. through 2020. The channel has aired the event since 1994.
"IFC is the perfect home for the Film Independent Spirit Awards,” Film Independent president Josh Welsh said. “They're…
Comedians and Broadway teammates Nick Kroll and John Mulaney have been tapped to co-host the Film Independent Spirit Awards next month. The duo, who co-created, co-wrote and co-star in the now-running Broadway show Oh, Hello On Broadway, are the latest in the trend of the past couple of years to have a duo host the…
Netflix has picked up Big Mouth, a 10-episode, half-hour animated comedy series about teenaged adventures in puberty from real-life best friends Nick Kroll (Kroll Show) and Andrew Goldberg (Family Guy). It will premiere everywhere Netflix is available in 2017.
Comedians Kroll and and John Mulaney (Saturday Night Live)…
EXCLUSIVE: Is it the American Zatoichi? Maybe, maybe not, but the comedy My Blind Brother, which world premieres later this week at South By Southwest 2016 looks like a hell of a lot of fun either way. From first time writer-director Sophie Goodhart, the pic sees Adam Scott as a handsome ladies man and near perfect…
EXCLUSIVE: The very first time writer/director Sophie Goodhart made My Blind Brother, it was as a short film that was nominated for the 2003 Palm d’Or. Now, she’s ready to direct the feature version, and she has gotten a strong comic cast. Adam Scott, Jenny Slate, Nick Kroll and Charlie Hewson (The Bounty Hunter) are…
With host Andy Greenwald wrangling nine panelists representing five shows, chaos reigned at today's Comedy Central panel at PaleyFest.
It was like a writer's room after too many Skittles and an overdose of Red Bull and Mountain Dew (all cited by one panelist during a description of the creative process). If Attention…
Nick Kroll’s sketch comedy series Kroll Show was renewed for a third season back in March. Today, Comedy Central said that will be the show’s final season. It will debut on January 13. Kroll made the announcement through one of the show’s popular characters, PubLIZity’s Liz…
Comedy Central has ordered a third season of sketch pop culture series Kroll Show. Creator/star Nick Kroll made the announcement tonight during an appearance on Late Night With Seth Meyers. The second season airing at 10:30 PM Tuesdays is averaging 1.1 million total viewers. "Nick has gone so deep into his characters…
The Kroll Show star’s next persona will be awards show guy. Nick Kroll has been tapped to host the IFP’s 23rd annual Gotham Independent Film Awards on December 2 in NYC. Kroll co-stars on FXX’s The League as well as leading his Comedy Central sketch show, on which he embodies numerous characters. Kroll also took part…
