June 19, 2015
Why is everyone doing Late Show massages? Over on Kimmel, Jack Black and Jeffrey Tambor were giving Fathers Day massages, and then on The Tonight Show, Jason Schwartzman and Jimmy Fallon talked while getting chair massages.
June 18, 2015
June 18, 2015
Adam Scott is out promoting his new movie The Overnight, and told a story last night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, about getting kicked out of a wedding with Paul Rudd.
June 17, 2015
The Overnight opens in theaters Friday but you can catch the first 7 minutes now. Starring Adam Scott and Jason Schwartzman. You'll definitely be seeing this in Filtered Excellence this week. Watch Adam talk about his and Jason's nude scene here.
June 17, 2015
When Adam Scott was in second grade, he invited Mark Hamill to his birthday party, and then told all his friends that Luke Skywalker would probably be there. He wrote a letter to Hamill and gave it to his mom. Needless to say, writing a letter to your mom does not result in a giant movie star showing up to your second grade birthday party. He told this story to Jimmy Kimmel last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live. He also said that years later he thought it would be funny to ask Hamill on Twitter why he never showed up. Hamill wrote back, and we could recreate this whole thing.
June 12, 2015
Adam Scott, Taylor Schilling, Adam Scott, Jason Schwartzman, and Judith Godrèche.
May 23, 2015
Netflix finally released some stills from the prequel, officially signaling the start of summer comedy.
May 22, 2015
Nobody owns Christmas like Mitch Glazer and Bill Murray (Scrooged) and now you'll be able to add Sofia Coppola to that list. Today Netflix officially announced the pick up of A Very Murray Christmas set to debut in December.
May 8, 2015
Last night on Jimmy Kimmel live Jason Schwartzman showed a clip from The Overnight, his new movie with Adam Scott.
May 8, 2015
It’s Summer movie season. The Avengers, the dinosaurs and secret agent Ethan Hunt are all back in theaters. Besides the screen exploding with action sequels, there’s […]
April 22, 2015
In what starts out as a playdate for two couple's kids, turns into one for the adults.
February 18, 2015
The New York Symphony will be beginning its new season.
February 3, 2015
This year the Sundance Film Festival had a lot of great offerings with comedy tie-ins, including several documentaries we’re dying to see, and a few comedy […]
January 29, 2015
The first trailer for the upcoming "Wet Hot American Summer" series on Netflix revealed that the entire cast of the 2001 Summer camp comedy are returning for the prequel.
January 25, 2015
At the Sundance Film Festival, celebrities were asked by the Hollywood Reporter, "If you could have someone score the soundtrack to your life, who would it be?"
January 6, 2015
As 2014 came to a close, we also celebrated our first anniversary as a website devoted to the business of comedy, so we had double the reason to celebrate the year in comedy.
December 29, 2014
Our picks for the ten greatest comedy movies of 2014 are all over the map. There is a blockbuster, and bunch of indie films among our picks, and we chose several films that you might argue aren't actually comedies. But we stand by the notion that often the best comedies are films that are dark, or mixed genre, so we didn't get details like that get in our way of picking some great films that skirted the edges of being pure comedies. Let us know what your favorite comedy of the year was this year by voting or leaving us a comment.
December 18, 2014
Jason Schwartzman talked with Conan last night about making Wes Anderson's Grand Budapest Hotel.
December 17, 2014
Fallon hosts Kim Jong Un's worst nightmare and a TV icon helps Craig Ferguson say goodbye.
October 24, 2014
This week one of the best written films of the year, Listen Up Philip, is out. And along with Jason Schwartzman, Elizabeth Moss, Krysten Ritter, and […]
October 23, 2014
Last night Jason Schwartzman was a guest on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. He told Craig he is ready to get grey, he's okay with it, even a little snow in the basement. Ummm. Yeah.
October 22, 2014
These are the comedy guests doing late night TV tonight.
October 17, 2014
Jason Schwartzman has an amazing movie coming out this week (see Filtered Excellence) and he stopped by the Tonight Show last night to hang with Fallon and talk about "Listen Up Philip." He also talked about the time he pretended to be Red Hot Chili Peppers' frontman Anthony Kiedis. What next? Impersonating Lincoln and signing pennies?
October 16, 2014
Bob Geldof once asked us, “Where is the filtered excellence!?” It’s right here. Here are this weeks picks of the best things towatch, the most interesting things to do, great things to try, the best picks to read, our favorite things to listen to and more:
October 16, 2014
If you're up late and laughing, here are the people to blame.
September 19, 2014
Directed by Tim Burton and starring Amy Adams, Christoph Waltz, Krysten Ritter, Danny Huston, Terence Stamp and Jason Schwartzman.
September 16, 2014
The new dramatic comedy movie starring Jason Schwartzman, Elisabeth Moss, Jonathan Pryce, Krysten Ritter and Eric Bogosian.