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5 Questions With Meredith MacNeill Of IFC’s “Baroness Von Sketch Show”

If you haven’t caught IFC’s award-winning, late-night satire Baroness von Sketch Show (Wednesdays), you’re missing a good time. Just starting its fourth season, the all-female comedy series features Meredith MacNeill, Carolyn Taylor, Aurora Browne and Jennifer Whalen. MacNeill is the only star who doesn’t hail from a comedy background (her costars are Second City alums), so when she commits to a sketch — oh boy, does she commit. “For me it’s such a fun, fantastic, freeing place to play really close to where it shouldn’t work when you’re pushing it that it does,” she shares on her often over-the-top absurdities. […]

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Gigi Does It: David Krumholtz is a 76-year-old woman in IFC’s new comedy

Gigi Does It IFC Premieres: Oct. 1 Airs: Thursdays at 10:30pm ET/PT Who’s In It? David Krumholtz, Ricky Mabe ALSO SEE: IFC pucks around with new ice hockey buddy comedy Benders What’s It All About? “The show is about a woman coming into a great deal of money and essentially her new lease on life, making up for lost time,” Krumholtz says. He’s transformed by makeup and prosthetics into a 76-year-old, sharp-tongued Jewish widow who inherits a fortune and starts crossing things off her bucket list. She goes to rock concerts, tries online dating and poses nude for an art […]

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IFC pucks around with ice hockey buddy comedy “Benders”

Benders IFC Premieres: Oct. 1 Airs: Thursdays at 10pm ET/PT Who’s In It? Andrew Schulz, Lindsey Broad, Chris Distefano, Mark Gessner, Ruy Iskandar ALSO SEE: Gigi Does It: David Krumholtz is a 76-year-old woman in IFC’s new comedy Bar-league sports are a comedy gold mine, and IFC’s new scripted comedy Benders digs deep into the world of Boston buddies who are obsessed with their very amateur ice hockey team. Co-creator Tom Sellitti says Benders and its stories were inspired by his own experiences on the ice. “We had a jersey that we were getting, and it was supposed to be […]

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IFC’s “Documentary Now!” is history as it never was

As Comedy Central’s Drunk History revolutionized the way we look at the past, IFC’s Documentary Now! (Thursdays beginning Aug. 20) hopes to alter how we remember some of history’s most important documentary films. Former Saturday Night Live castmates Fred Armisen, Bill Hader and Seth Meyers are the creators of this new six-part comedy series that spoofs famous documentaries like Grey Gardens, Nanook of the North and Reportero. Each installment has the appearance and tone of a serious documentary (they even got Helen Mirren to introduce each episode!). But the seriousness ends when Armisen and Hader appear onscreen as parodies of eccentric […]

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Funny or Die follows up “The Spoils of Babylon” with “The Spoils Before Dying”

Following up on its pitch-perfect parody of overwrought novels and epic miniseries of days gone by with The Spoils of Babylon, Funny or Die has produced a follow-up comedy miniseries for IFC. The three-night The Spoils Before Dying again features “author” Eric Jonrosh (Will Ferrell, also an executive producer), who introduces his story. It’s a pulp-noir murder mystery set in the seedy underbelly of Los Angeles’ jazz scene. Dying follows Rock Banyon (Michael Kenneth Williams) as he becomes the prime suspect in the double murder of his occasional lover Fresno Foxglove (Maya Rudolph), who is found dead with another man. Kristen […]