What goes on in the shrouded, secret meetings at NSA headquarters? How does the agency monitoring every electronic communication you ever sent or received figure out who to spy on every day? Turns out, it’s a lot like the meetings at that other shadowy three-letter spy agency, TMZ.
Catch lots more of this week’s best comedy over at Splitsider.
Andy Daly’s new show Review premiered on Comedy Central. We reviewed the show and interviewed Daly about it.
The Daily Show hired comedian Jordan Klepper as its first new correspondent in two years.
FX renewed Archer for two more Seasons 6 and 7, and Comedy Central renewed Kroll Show for Season 3.
Bob’s Burgers is putting out a music album.
We interviewed Cole Bolton about being The Onion’s new editor and Joe Mande about his new standup mixtape, writing for Parks and Rec, and buying a million Twitter followers.
We looked back at Chris Elliott’s failed stab at a mainstream family sitcom and prolific SNL writer Jim Downey’s short stint as a cast member on the show.
TruTV ordered 10 episodes of a sketch show called Friends of the People, starring The Lucas Brothers, Kevin Barnett, Josh Rabinowitz, Jermaine Fowler, Jennifer Bartels, and Lil Rel Howery,
We dissected Late Night with Seth Meyers’s first week on the air.
Conan O’Brien is hosting the 2014 MTV Movie Awards, and we made a videolist of his best non-late night hosting gigs from years past.
We made a wishlist for How I Met Your Mother’s final episodes.
We gathered up a big fat pile of Bill Murray quotes in The Collected Wisdom of Bill Murray.
Lena Dunham is writing a four-part Archie comics series.
NBC is pressuring guests to only appear on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and not other talk shows.
We recommended the week’s best podcasts and the Twitter feed of comedy writer Frank Lesser.
