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Will Ferrell's 'The Hawk' Is a 2003 Comedy That Forgot to Travel Forward in Time
Netflix's new golf series hands Will Ferrell a premise with genuine potential and watches him bury it under twenty-year-old dick jokes. The show isn't bad because Ferrell can't do it — it's bad because nobody stopped him.
Kay Kay Menon's Dysfunctional-School Comedy Hits Prime Video July 24
One of Indian cinema's most reliably intense actors pivots hard into comedy — and the premise is sharper than it sounds. 'Adarsh Baal Vidyalaya' could be the streaming surprise nobody saw coming this July.
Diarra From Detroit Lands on Paramount+ This July — And the Move Makes Sense
BET+ is gone, but Diarra Kilpatrick's sharp Motor City mystery-comedy isn't. Season 2 has a date, a new home, and a lot of ground to cover.
'Ride or Die' Is the Midlife Spy Comedy Nobody Commissioned — and Everyone Needed
Hannah Waddingham and Octavia Spencer play an assassin and her unsuspecting best friend, and the result is something television rarely manages: a genre show that earns its laughs and its emotion in the same breath.
Scotland's Best-Kept Secret Just Got a Trailer: 'The Incomer' Is the Comedy Event of the Year
Domhnall Gleeson disappears into a remote Scottish island community in a Sundance award-winner that's already being called one of 2026's best films. The trailer is here, and it earns every bit of that 92% on Rotten Tomatoes.
India's Top Court Fines Samay Raina ₹10 Lakh, Says He 'Took the Court for a Ride'
The Supreme Court of India didn't just reprimand comedian Samay Raina — it called out a pattern of deliberate non-compliance and slapped him with a ₹10 lakh fine. When a bench has to tell you it expected better, you've lost the room.
Convicted Felon's Wife Sues Comedian for Joking She Looks Scary
Rosmah Mansor — wife of imprisoned ex-PM Najib Razak and convicted money launderer in her own right — has filed a High Court defamation suit against Malaysia's best-known stand-up comic. The lawsuit raises an uncomfortable question: when the powerful use libel law as a bludgeon, who exactly is protecting their reputation from whom?
Dhamaal 4 Hits ₹115 Crore Worldwide in Five Days — Bollywood's Comedy Drought May Be Over
Ajay Devgn's franchise revival is outpacing expectations and defying the weekday curse. The numbers tell a story the industry hasn't seen in a while: audiences actually returning for laughs.
A 10-Foot 'Iran War Participation Trophy' Just Landed on the National Mall
Anonymous protest artists dropped a towering satirical monument on America's front lawn as U.S. strikes on Iran resume. Washington noticed.
Ashley Johnson Was Nearly Snatched at Gunpoint From a 'Growing Pains' Taping at Age 10
The actress, now best known for 'The Last of Us,' has broken her silence on a childhood near-abduction that exposed a catastrophic security gap on one of the '90s most-watched family sets. The man had a gun. The studio audience was five feet away.
Tom Segura and Christina P Split After 18 Years — and YMH Studios Is the Real Question
Comedy's most openly codependent podcast couple has quietly separated, keeping it under wraps for months. The marriage is done; what happens to the empire they built together is still very much open.
Kay Kay Menon's New Role Is the Most Subversive Thing on Indian Streaming Right Now
Prime Video's Adarsh Baal Vidyalaya drops a headmaster into the bureaucratic wreckage of a Delhi government school — and dares to make it funny. The trailer suggests this isn't a feel-good redemption arc. It's something sharper.
A Tornado Warning, a Wisconsin Prison, and a Decade of Silence Finally Broken
Rosie O'Donnell visited her 28-year-old daughter Chelsea behind bars and came away with something she hadn't had in ten years: a real conversation. It lasted four hours — until a tornado warning ended it.
Seth Meyers Won't Shut Up About the Cyclospora Outbreak — And He Shouldn't
America's late-night host returned from hiatus, locked in on a parasitic diarrhea outbreak that the government's top health official arguably helped enable. He says he'll only stop when someone makes him.
Kusha Kapila: The AI Reunion Photos Are Fake, the Trauma From That Roast Was Real
Viral posts claiming Kusha Kapila patched up with Samay Raina and lobbied for a spot on India's Got Latent Season 2 are fabricated — and Kapila wants everyone to know the wound behind them is not. She says she needed therapy. She says they are not friends. She says stop.
Will Ferrell Almost Killed 'Elf' in His Own Head Before the Camera Rolled
Twenty-one years after Buddy the Elf became a Christmas institution, Will Ferrell is finally admitting he nearly talked himself out of it. The four words he thought when he first saw himself in tights say everything about how Hollywood's biggest swings actually feel from the inside.