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After four years, Adult Swim is finally bringing back its biblical comedy “Black Jesus.”

The comedy will return for Season 3 on Friday, Sept. 20. It last aired in November 2015.

The scripted live-action comedy features an African-American Jesus Christ living in modern-day Compton, California, on a mission to spread love and kindness throughout the neighborhood with his small group of followers. In Season 3, Black Jesus continues his mission to spread love and kindness in the neighborhood, encounters a local caped crusader, and draws the attention of the Pope himself.

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The series was created by Aaron McGruder (also known for creating “The Boondocks”) and Mike Clattenberg and stars Gerald “Slink” Johnson as Jesus Christ. Corey Holcomb, John Witherspoon, Angela Elayne Gibbs, Valenzia Algarin, Antwon Tanner and Dominique Witten also star.

Clattenberg and McGruder executive produce alongside Mainstay Entertainment CEO Norm Aladjem,...

Own: The Oprah Winfrey Network has greenlit to more installments of Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious, which will premiere on Saturday, January 4 and January 11, at 10/9c.  The first 2 installments in the series aired over the summer and were clearly a success.   Taped before a live studio audience at Harpo Studios in Chicago, the specials were hosted and produced by Sykes and Page Hurwitz's Push It Productions, in conjunction with Harpo Studios, and featured appearances by female stand-ups, including Kym Whitley, Andi Smith, Gloria Bigelow, Marina Franklin, Tracey Ashley, Carmen Lynch and Dominique Witten. In addition to performing...

Plenty of times in her long career, comedian Wanda Sykes has heard -- and combated -- the stereotype that women can't be funny. For her new special "Herlarious," Sykes brings up this stereotype to fellow comedians Gloria Bigelow, Andi Smith and Dominique, who launch into a debate about whether or not it stems from male comedians being intimidated by women in comedy.

"You have to be so strong to be a female comic and I think... maybe that's intimidating," Dominique says.

"Who am I intimidating?" Bigelow disagrees. "I think it's just that same kind of misogyny thing that's everywhere else. Honestly. Why wouldn't it be in the comedy club? It's in everything else."

"Don't you think, though, that boys want to be the funny ones?" Smith poses.

"I think it's a mix," Sykes offers. "It is intimidating when you see a woman on stage -- especially killing, doing it well...

When Wanda Sykes gets together with several of her favorite up-and-coming comedians, it's bound to be a hilarious and unpredictably good time. On her all-new Own special, "Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious," Sykes and some of comedy's funniest females take the stage to bring on the laughs and also sit down for roundtable discussions on topics ranging from their biggest stand-up flops to misogyny in the comedy clubs.

In this clip from the first episode of "Herlarious," Sykes is joined by Gloria Bigelow, Andi Smith and Dominique Whitten for a candid conversation about a term they feel shouldn't even exist in the comedy industry: "female comedian." Adding the distinction "female" is completely unnecessary, they say.

"A comedian is a comedian," Whitten says. "Why does it have to be separated?"

"There's no 'doctresses,'" Smith points out dryly. She then recalls a time when she arrived at a Houston club to perform...