Exclusive: Comedy Central is expanding The Daily Show universe with another podcast.
Correspondent Roy Wood Jr. is hosting Beyond the Scenes, an audio series that will give listeners an inside look at how producers and writers of the late-night series use comedy to tackle a variety of complex topics, from racial injustice to sex robots.
Wood’s fellow correspondents including Desi Lydic, Dulcé Sloan, Michael Kosta, Ronny Chieng and contributor Jordan Klepper will also be featured as they tackle an array of topics.
The series is produced in partnership with iHeartMedia and will launch on July 20. You can listen to the trailer below.
The first episode – Therapy in the Black Community – will see Wood joined by Daily Show writers X Mayo and Ashton Womack for a wide-ranging and deeply personal discussion about mental health, Black church, the protests against racial injustice and police brutality of 2020.
“This is the show where we go beyond the scenes,...
Correspondent Roy Wood Jr. is hosting Beyond the Scenes, an audio series that will give listeners an inside look at how producers and writers of the late-night series use comedy to tackle a variety of complex topics, from racial injustice to sex robots.
Wood’s fellow correspondents including Desi Lydic, Dulcé Sloan, Michael Kosta, Ronny Chieng and contributor Jordan Klepper will also be featured as they tackle an array of topics.
The series is produced in partnership with iHeartMedia and will launch on July 20. You can listen to the trailer below.
The first episode – Therapy in the Black Community – will see Wood joined by Daily Show writers X Mayo and Ashton Womack for a wide-ranging and deeply personal discussion about mental health, Black church, the protests against racial injustice and police brutality of 2020.
“This is the show where we go beyond the scenes,...
- 7/14/2021
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Shan and Kate. Aussie short Shan and Kate will make its world premiere at the Palm Springs International ShortFest this week.
The Academy Award accredited Shortfest is the largest of its kind in North America, screening over 300 films. Speaking to If from Palm Springs, producer Bronte Jovevski described debuting at the festival as a .literal dream come true.. .We.re still pinching ourselves,. she said. Set in 1996, Shan and Kate is a teen comedy that follows best friends Shan (Jenna Owen, Puberty Blues) and Kate (Chelsea Williamson, The Reckoning, Broken Contract), through the school week leading up to their first big high school party. .It.s very much a movie about best friendship and dealing with crushes,. said Jovevski. The short was written and directed by Jovevski.s own best friend, Zoë Rae (Slaughterhouse Bride). The screenplay was based on a story that Jovevski wrote while studying at Uts. .While...
The Academy Award accredited Shortfest is the largest of its kind in North America, screening over 300 films. Speaking to If from Palm Springs, producer Bronte Jovevski described debuting at the festival as a .literal dream come true.. .We.re still pinching ourselves,. she said. Set in 1996, Shan and Kate is a teen comedy that follows best friends Shan (Jenna Owen, Puberty Blues) and Kate (Chelsea Williamson, The Reckoning, Broken Contract), through the school week leading up to their first big high school party. .It.s very much a movie about best friendship and dealing with crushes,. said Jovevski. The short was written and directed by Jovevski.s own best friend, Zoë Rae (Slaughterhouse Bride). The screenplay was based on a story that Jovevski wrote while studying at Uts. .While...
- 6/22/2016
- by Jackie Keast
- IF.com.au
Chelsea Williamson and Rebecca Robinson are the latest among a crop of young Western Australian actors who are striving for international careers.
Williamson, who.s 20, has signed with a Los Angeles-based manager and will play a key character named Tiffany in Broken Contract, writer-director James Pentecost.s action comedy that starts shooting in Perth on April 28.
Christopher Morris (Crownies, Janet King) plays Max, a down-on-his-luck club owner struggling to make ends meet. When a local gang threatens his livelihood and his family, he hires a hit man to protect the ones he loves. Tiffany is a bartender in a seedy strip joint who is trying to make ends meet while trying to find a missing family member.
Robinson, 22, is the first Australian in some years to be selected to take part in the Master.s program for film at the Royal Central School for Speech and Drama in London.
Before she departs for London,...
Williamson, who.s 20, has signed with a Los Angeles-based manager and will play a key character named Tiffany in Broken Contract, writer-director James Pentecost.s action comedy that starts shooting in Perth on April 28.
Christopher Morris (Crownies, Janet King) plays Max, a down-on-his-luck club owner struggling to make ends meet. When a local gang threatens his livelihood and his family, he hires a hit man to protect the ones he loves. Tiffany is a bartender in a seedy strip joint who is trying to make ends meet while trying to find a missing family member.
Robinson, 22, is the first Australian in some years to be selected to take part in the Master.s program for film at the Royal Central School for Speech and Drama in London.
Before she departs for London,...
- 4/23/2014
- by Don Groves
- IF.com.au
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