Exclusive: Comedian Mo Welch announced on Tuesday that her stand-up special/documentary hybrid Dad Jokes will premiere on YouTube via 800 Pound Gorilla on June 13th.
Filmed at the Lodge Room in Highland Park and all over Illinois, the special follows Welch as she explains her lifelong obsession with dad jokes as a way to process the aftermath of her own father’s abandonment. Welch travels to Illinois in search of her father while acerbically unpacking his absence in her life and what that has meant for her comedy and her journey as a new mother.
Dad Jokes is written, performed, and co-directed by Welch, who is currently on tour opening for Ted Lasso‘s Brett Goldstein and was previously on the road with Anthony Jeselnik and Chelsea Handler.
A stand-up comic and cartoonist originally from Normal, Illinois, Welch previously directed the Netflix comedy special If You Didn’t Want Me Then from Beth Stelling,...
Filmed at the Lodge Room in Highland Park and all over Illinois, the special follows Welch as she explains her lifelong obsession with dad jokes as a way to process the aftermath of her own father’s abandonment. Welch travels to Illinois in search of her father while acerbically unpacking his absence in her life and what that has meant for her comedy and her journey as a new mother.
Dad Jokes is written, performed, and co-directed by Welch, who is currently on tour opening for Ted Lasso‘s Brett Goldstein and was previously on the road with Anthony Jeselnik and Chelsea Handler.
A stand-up comic and cartoonist originally from Normal, Illinois, Welch previously directed the Netflix comedy special If You Didn’t Want Me Then from Beth Stelling,...
- 5/22/2024
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Paramount has tapped comedian Al Madrigal to host its annual talent scouting event, the “CBS Showcase,” for an audience of industry professionals. This year’s event will focus on standup comedy. featuring Showcase alumni Jared Goldstein, Morgan Jay, Peter S. Kim, Brett Maline, Rashida “Sheedz” Olayiwola, Gregory Santos, Tien Tran and Mo Welch.
The standup comedy format reps a shift for the CBS Showcase from previous years. This year’s event, set to be held Feb. 1, will benefit charitable organizations chosen by the program’s participants, including The Trevor Project, Feeding America, Parkinson’s Foundation Inc., Poverty Alleviation Chicago: Letters to Santa, Shriners Hospital for Children, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Downtown Women’s Center and Glsen. After the show, there will be a performance from musical guest Fightmaster, the solo project of nonbinary actor and writer E.R. Fightmaster.
2024 Showcase performers E.R. Fightmaster, Morgan Jay, Peter S. Kim, Tien Tran,...
The standup comedy format reps a shift for the CBS Showcase from previous years. This year’s event, set to be held Feb. 1, will benefit charitable organizations chosen by the program’s participants, including The Trevor Project, Feeding America, Parkinson’s Foundation Inc., Poverty Alleviation Chicago: Letters to Santa, Shriners Hospital for Children, Planned Parenthood Federation of America, Downtown Women’s Center and Glsen. After the show, there will be a performance from musical guest Fightmaster, the solo project of nonbinary actor and writer E.R. Fightmaster.
2024 Showcase performers E.R. Fightmaster, Morgan Jay, Peter S. Kim, Tien Tran,...
- 1/24/2024
- by Caroline Brew
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: The television adaptation of Chelsea Handler’s memoir Life Will Be the Death of Me has landed in development at Peacock.
Deadline understands that the NBCUniversal-backed streamer has taken in the small-screen adaptation of the book, which was published in 2019. It comes after Deadline revealed that Universal Television had landed the rights to the book in a competitive situation in 2019.
Handler is set to star and exec produce the single-camera project with Chelsea Handler Productions’s Liz Tuccillo, who has written on Sex and The City and Divorce, writing and exec producing.
The series follows Handler in crisis. She goes into therapy to become a nicer and less entitled person. Mayhem and calamity ensue as she overcorrects, stumbles, regresses, and loses her marbles on her journey to self-improvement. The half-hour series comes with emotional underpinnings as Chelsea realizes she must deal with a tragedy from her childhood in order to truly move forward.
Deadline understands that the NBCUniversal-backed streamer has taken in the small-screen adaptation of the book, which was published in 2019. It comes after Deadline revealed that Universal Television had landed the rights to the book in a competitive situation in 2019.
Handler is set to star and exec produce the single-camera project with Chelsea Handler Productions’s Liz Tuccillo, who has written on Sex and The City and Divorce, writing and exec producing.
The series follows Handler in crisis. She goes into therapy to become a nicer and less entitled person. Mayhem and calamity ensue as she overcorrects, stumbles, regresses, and loses her marbles on her journey to self-improvement. The half-hour series comes with emotional underpinnings as Chelsea realizes she must deal with a tragedy from her childhood in order to truly move forward.
- 1/18/2022
- by Peter White
- Deadline Film + TV
Exclusive: Chelsea Handler has sold two half-hour comedies — Blair, based on the comic strip by Mo Welch to HBO Max, and Wiped Out from Charles Morris, to Peacock. Both projects were developed at Universal Television, where Handler has a first-look deal.
Created and written by Welch based on her comic strip, Blair follows a twenty-something with a dark but frank outlook on life; she’s an older Daria, but a less anxious Cathy who can’t help but judge people around her despite the fact that she’s at her own personal rock-bottom. After accidentally burning down her apartment and getting a demotion at a job she hates, Blair is forced to move back in with her mom and live a life she thought she would’ve left behind by now.
Written by Morris, Wiped Out revolves around a narcissistic woman with the “perfect” life, who is suddenly erased from...
Created and written by Welch based on her comic strip, Blair follows a twenty-something with a dark but frank outlook on life; she’s an older Daria, but a less anxious Cathy who can’t help but judge people around her despite the fact that she’s at her own personal rock-bottom. After accidentally burning down her apartment and getting a demotion at a job she hates, Blair is forced to move back in with her mom and live a life she thought she would’ve left behind by now.
Written by Morris, Wiped Out revolves around a narcissistic woman with the “perfect” life, who is suddenly erased from...
- 9/3/2020
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Turner-owned cable channel TBS has recently adopted a forward-thinking approach to content, and as part of that effort, it has launched a new series based off an Instagram account. Mo Welch is the primary creative force behind Blair, a series of short vignettes centered around the life of a modern misanthrope.
Blair, narrated in a flat monotone, dispenses nuggets of offbeat life advice, which match up with the worldview of the show's titular protagonist. "If you feel like ghosting but feel bad for not saying bye, try this," Blair suggests in the first of ten episodes available on the TBS website, "just don't say hi."
Blair allows Welch to continue the work she has done on Instagram, where her pithy cartoons -- full of wry captions that suggest a glum life for their speaker -- have attracted more than 50,000 subscribers. Welch's ethos has become popular enough for her book...
Blair, narrated in a flat monotone, dispenses nuggets of offbeat life advice, which match up with the worldview of the show's titular protagonist. "If you feel like ghosting but feel bad for not saying bye, try this," Blair suggests in the first of ten episodes available on the TBS website, "just don't say hi."
Blair allows Welch to continue the work she has done on Instagram, where her pithy cartoons -- full of wry captions that suggest a glum life for their speaker -- have attracted more than 50,000 subscribers. Welch's ethos has become popular enough for her book...
- 1/30/2018
- by Sam Gutelle
- Tubefilter.com
Who doesn’t love food trucks, drinking, and laughing? Be honest—you love at least one of those things. So if you’re in Los Angeles April 15, check out the media mash-up Super Serious Show at the Virgil on Santa Monica Boulevard! Created by comedy production company CleftClips and named one of the 10 best standup comedy shows in L.A. by La Weekly, the monthly event will feature laughs from the likes of T.J. Miller (“Silicon Valley”); Ian Karmel (“Chelsea Lately”); Morgan Jay, the 2012 winner of standup comedy competition Westside Showdown; Mike Lawrence (“Conan”); and Ucb Theatre alum Mo Welch, all against the backdrop of high–production value videos from Women, out of IFC’s Comedy Crib. Past Super Serious performers include Backstage cover star Amy Schumer, Aziz Ansari (“Parks and Recreation”), Bill Burr, Chris D’Elia (“Undateable”), Chris Kattan, David Cross (who just announced a Netflix original series with Bob Odenkirk), David Koechner,...
- 4/8/2015
- backstage.com
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