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New on Netflix: Every movie and TV show landing on service in May 2023

Full list of every new Netflix release arriving in next 31 days

The Independent UK

Everything coming to Netflix in May 2023

Wondering what's coming to Netflix US & UK in May 2023? Here's what you can expect this month

My Imperfect Life

The Upshaws season 4: release date and everything we know about the comedy

Mike Epps, Wanda Sykes and Kim Fields reprise their roles in The Upshaws season 4. Here’s everything we know about the series.

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History Of The World Debuts After It Premiered Years Ago What Mel Brooks Has Continued

Nearly 40 years after his “History of the World, Part I” debuted in 1981, Mel Brooks released “History of the World, Part II”

Zenger

'History of the World, Part II' review: The school of Mel is in session

If you don't count the years when he worked as a drummer, a "tummler" and a teenage comic in the Catskills, Mel Brooks began his show business career in television, writing for Sid Caesar at the dawn of the medium. He returned in the mid-1960s to co-create "Get Smart," and…

Los Angeles Times

Review: Mel Brooks’ giddily irreverent style of comedy is emulated in new Hulu series ‘History of the World, Part II’

The comedy of Mel Brooks might as well be its own genre. It’s broad. It’s irreverent. It’s giddily absurd. And no more so than in the 1981 movie “History of the World, Part I,” wherein various events on the human timeline are filtered through this winking sensibility, transforming something like…

Chicago Tribune

‘History of the World, Part II’: Mel Brooks picks up where his jokey 1981 movie left off

‘Part I’ ended with a fake teaser to a ‘Part II’ that Brooks never planned. But now it’s here as a wacky Hulu series, and most of the sketches are loaded with stars and laughs.

Chicago Sun-Times

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Wanda Sykes on Trump’s Facebook return: ‘Like letting Hannibal Lecter babysit your most delicious child’

Late-night hosts discuss Meta’s reinstatement of Donald Trump to Facebook and Instagram, and Jimmy Kimmel celebrates the 20th anniversary of his show

The Guardian - US

Kimmel on Pence documents: ‘Really throwing Republicans for a loop’

Late-night hosts discuss Pence’s classified documents, Trump’s reinstatement to Facebook and the US tanks gifted to Ukraine

The Guardian - US

Jimmy Kimmel on Mike Pence’s classified documents: ‘It’s an epidemic’

Late-night hosts discuss Oscar nominations, classified documents and a television ad for oil and gas

The Guardian - US

Colbert on classified documents: ‘No one in executive branch has ever purchased a shredder?’

Late-night hosts discuss Biden’s documents issue and Donald Trump’s self-centered eulogy for a superfan

The Guardian - US

The Daily Show 'ready to hire permanent female host' to replace Trevor Noah

The Daily Show is reportedly ready to hire a permanent female host to replace the departed Trevor Noah as channel bring in Wanda Sykes and Chelsea Handler

Daily Mirror

Leslie Jones' star power on "Daily Show"

As the nightly fake news institution returns, we ponder the value of placing a famous successor in its anchor chair

Salon

Leslie Jones Promises to Be Herself Hosting ‘the Daily Show’

Comedian Leslie Jones will be taking a temporary whirl as host of "The Daily Show" this week, and she says viewers can expect her trademark — some blunt, edgy humor. "I’m not Jon Stewart. I’m not Trevor Noah, I’m Leslie Jones. So I’ll be bringing that vulnerable honesty," the former…

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Salon

Thoughts on a Trevor Noah successor

In 2015, Jon Stewart took a gamble by tapping Noah, then an unknown. Paramount isn't taking such a chance this time

Los Angeles Times

Kevin Hart mourns the death of his father: ‘Gone but never forgotten’

Kevin Hart mourned the death of his father this week in a series of Instagram posts dedicated to “one of the realest & rawest to ever do it.”

Los Angeles Times

Mary McNamara: I'm glad Courteney Cox is talking about menopause. Now can we do something about it?

Naomi Watts says it will empower you; Courtney Cox warns that it will consume you; one recent study argues it may be a reason women are leaving the workplace; and a British company is using NASA technology to help.

The Guardian - UK

Wanda Sykes: will we be laughing to You’ve Been Snooped On?

The comedian has her work cut out as host of Amazon’s Ring Nation, which sounds more ominous than entertaining

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The Philadelphia Inquirer

Mike Jensen: Philly has all the ingredients to find a quality WNBA owner. So who’s going to do it?

PHILADELPHIA — You can look at the fan base, arenas, practice facilities … If you’re the WNBA, deciding if Philadelphia is the right market for a WNBA team, it comes down to ownership. It’s always come down to ownership.

Tribune News Service

Wanda Sykes to host show featuring clips from people’s doorbells, smart home cameras

Knock, knock. Who’s there? It could be you, doing something funny, on television screens across the U.S.

Los Angeles Times

For the queer, trans performer D'Lo, to be a comedian is to be a 'practitioner of joy'

LOS ANGELES — The Sri Lankan community dinners that comedian D'Lo grew up attending in Lancaster, California, and Los Angeles were lovingly chaotic — 100 or so people sprawled across someone's living room, the "aunties" clustered around the couch, the "uncles" outside drinking beers and singing. There were fragrant trays…

Los Angeles Times

'Oh, hell no,' Wanda Sykes wouldn't host the Oscars again. 'You do it once'

Wanda Sykes didn't know what she was in for when she agreed to host the Oscars in March.

The Guardian - US

How Netflix’s The Upshaws shows that the family sitcom is still thriving

The second season of the underrated multi-cam comedy continues to keep the spirit of Norman Lear alive with deft interweaving of real drama in a glossy format

Tribune News Service

Netflix announces new documentary about history of LGBTQ stand-up comedy

A documentary looking at the history of LGBTQ stand-up comedy is coming to Netflix.

Daily Mirror

Is Chivalry based on a true story? Truth behind Steve Coogan's Me Too comedy

Chivalry takes place modern Hollywood as it battles gender politics and risqué romance. Starring Steve Coogan, the show reflects events that appear more realistic than some would like

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