“Saturday Night Live” hires seven new writers for season 42
Saturday Night Live has announced their new additions to the writing team for the upcomnig 42nd Season of the late-night sketch show. According to Splitsider, Anna Drezen, Kristen Bartlett, Joanna Bradley, Zack Bornstein, Julio Torres, Brian McElhaney, and Nick Kocher are now all in the mix. The show has been very active this off-season releasing […]
Julio Torres apologizes for being vegan in his first “Late Night with Seth Meyers” stand-up set
Fresh off his appearance at SXSW, stand-up and Saturday Night Live writer Julio Torres made his debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers last night. With his trademark, affably deadpan delivery, Torres talked about regretting veganism, crushing on Daisy Duck, and the one piece of décor all straight guys keep bedside, in a quick four-minute set […]
This Week In Comedy: Chad Daniels Premieres His First Netflix Special, “Empty Nester”
This Week In Comedy: Chad Daniels, one of Minnesota’s most successful stand-up comedians, is releasing his first Netflix special (and tenth special overall) titled Empty Nester. The new hour shows Daniels “sounding off on dad-shaming, dating someone with allergies and the upside of an empty nest.” With over a billion streams of his comedy albums […]
This Week In Comedy: Jo Koy Premieres His Fifth Netflix Special, “Live From Brooklyn”
This Week In Comedy: Jo Koy, who’s been a stand-up comedy mainstay at Netflix since 2017’s Live From Seattle, is back this week with fifth hour-long comedy special, Live From Brooklyn, shot at the historic Kings Theatre. He joins a short-list of some of the most prolific comedians with 5 specials on Netflix including Iliza […]
Check Out The Trailer For Julio Torres’ “Fantasmas”
Julio Torres has had a busy year. Earlier this year, his new film Problemista came out via A24. Now, he’s got a brand-new HBO show, Fantasmas. And now we’ve got a new look at the trailer. What to know about Julio Torres’ new HBO series, “Fantasmas.” The series is described as being “a fantastical six-part […]
Julio Torres Shares New Release Date For “Problemista” With Tilda Swinton In New Promo
Julio Torres in Problemista. Courtesy of A24 It’s a new year, same Problemista for comedian, writer-director, & star Julio Torres! Last summer, we were supposed to get the new feature film released in theaters. However, the movie got pulled from A24 release calendar due to the dual writer’s & actor’s strikes going on (it was […]
Check out the trailer for “Problemista,” starring Julio Torres
Comedian Julio Torres is making a leap to the big screen in a new film from A24. And now the first trailer has been released. In Problemista, “Alejandro is an aspiring toy designer from El Salvador, struggling to bring his unusual ideas to life in New York City. As time on his work visa runs […]
Julio Torres is getting a special on HBO this summer
Photo: HBO We first had the pleasure of seeing comedian Julio Torres at a stand-up comedy show held in the archives at the Paste studios a few years back. We were immediately intrigued by Torres’ offbeat brand of humor and stage presence, and there was something so likeable about him because he was different. It […]
A “Saturday Night Live” sketch appears to have corrected an error made by a huge blockbuster movie
About a year ago, Saturday Night Live gave us an instant classic sketch called, “Papyrus.” In the sketch Ryan Gosling is haunted by the fact that Avatar, a huge international blockbuster used the font Papyrus and nobody said anything about it… truly frightening. The sketch came from the brain of stand-up comedian and SNL writer […]
Variety announces its 10 Comics To Watch 2018
Every year around this time the folks at Variety announce their 10 Comics To Watch. It’s a list of up-an-coming comedians at the early stages of their career. Some are just starting to get TV credits, some might’ve just put out a comedy album or half hour special. The point of the list is for […]