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Cedric the Entertainer is teaming up with some of his famous friends and Def Comedy Jam for a coronavirus fundraiser called “Healing Through Laughter.” The Neighborhood star will be joined by fellow comics Chris Tucker, Adele Givens, Spice Adams, Corey Holcomb, D.L. Hughley and Luenell for the livestream on Sunday, April 5, Cedric’s team said
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Bernie Sanders warned HBO Real Time host Bill Maher that it’s entirely possible that President Donald Trump will direct coronavirus relief money to states based on whether he needs to win them in the 2020 presidential race. “If you think that during a campaign, you’re not going to see a lot of money from the Trump
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Showrunner Matthew Wheeler has signed with Thruline and APA. Wheeler most recently served as co-showrunner and executive producer on CBS’ long-running hit series Hawaii Five-0, which as Deadline recently reported will be ending its 10-year run with a two-hour series finale tonight. He joined the writing staff in 2014 as a story editor and three
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House Speaker Nancy Pelosi is Stephen Colbert’s virtual guest on his home edition of The Late Show, but the first clip from their discussion is anything but lighthearted. Have a look below. The clip focuses on Pelosi’s new bipartisan committee in the House of Representatives that will oversee the White House’s response to the coronavirus pandemic and
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EXCLUSIVE: What would a workplace comedy look like in the current environment of offices around the world closed and employees working remotely under stay-at-home mandates to slow the spread of the coronavirus? Ben Silverman and Paul Lieberstein, former executive producers of one of the most popular workplace comedies ever, The Office, are taking inspiration from
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Brit TV writer Dominic Minghella (Doc Martin) has recounted a harrowing personal experience of being hospitalised for five days with coronavirus symptoms. In a lengthy and moving blog post, published in full below, Knightfall executive Minghella charts how he developed symptoms but initially resisted the reality of getting the illness. “I didn’t want Covid. Not
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For the past four years, Adam Schlesinger, a Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated singer-songwriter and Fountains of Wayne frontman, served as executive music producer for the CW musical dramedy Crazy Ex-Girlfriend. Collaborating with the series’ co-creator/executive producer Rachel Bloom and Jack Dolgen, the trio earned five Emmy nominations, winning in their last try last year. It was
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Chris Cuomo opened his CNN show Cuomo Prime Time by elaborating on his coronavirus diagnosis, telling viewers, “Let’s use this example of me having it as proof that you can get it too.” From the basement of his home, where he is quarantined even from his wife and children, Cuomo said that “my concern is what
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