Yvonne Orji has set a new comedy special at HBO, Variety has learned exclusively. “Yvonne Orji: A Whole Me” will premiere Oct. 1 at 10 p.m. on HBO before streaming on HBO Max.
Written and performed by Orji and shot in downtown Los Angeles, the special focuses on her evolving thoughts on friendship, dating, adulting and why guys need better friends — all of which she discusses in therapy. With a mix of stand-up and scripted vignettes, she offers her point of view on issues such as the pandemic and estate planning, as well as being the child of Nigerian immigrants and the brutal realities of dating.
This is Orji’s second stand-up special at HBO, following up on 2020’s “Mama, I Made It!” She is best known for playing Molly in HBO’s “Insecure,” which earned her an Emmy nomination in 2020. She hosted Amazon Prime Video’s year-in-review comedy special “Yearly Departed...
Written and performed by Orji and shot in downtown Los Angeles, the special focuses on her evolving thoughts on friendship, dating, adulting and why guys need better friends — all of which she discusses in therapy. With a mix of stand-up and scripted vignettes, she offers her point of view on issues such as the pandemic and estate planning, as well as being the child of Nigerian immigrants and the brutal realities of dating.
This is Orji’s second stand-up special at HBO, following up on 2020’s “Mama, I Made It!” She is best known for playing Molly in HBO’s “Insecure,” which earned her an Emmy nomination in 2020. She hosted Amazon Prime Video’s year-in-review comedy special “Yearly Departed...
- 9/9/2022
- by Selome Hailu
- Variety Film + TV
Exclusive: Writer, actor, comedian and producer Kerry Coddett has signed with WME for representation.
Coddett is currently writing on Season 2 of Flatbush Misdemeanors. She was the only writer for Showtime comedy series who was asked to return after Season 1, and also appears in it as a recurring guest star. She can currently be seen on HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay and Showtime’s Desus & Mero.
Coddett was previously a staff writer on Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas for HBO and was also a regular on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. She has also featured in Hulu’s Ramy and HBO’s Crashing and was a core cast member of The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show on Netflix.
Coddett has performed stand-up at the NBC Universal Second City Breakout Festival, the New York Comedy Festival, the Women In Comedy Festival, the Brooklyn Comedy Festival,...
Coddett is currently writing on Season 2 of Flatbush Misdemeanors. She was the only writer for Showtime comedy series who was asked to return after Season 1, and also appears in it as a recurring guest star. She can currently be seen on HBO’s Pause with Sam Jay and Showtime’s Desus & Mero.
Coddett was previously a staff writer on Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas for HBO and was also a regular on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. She has also featured in Hulu’s Ramy and HBO’s Crashing and was a core cast member of The Iliza Shlesinger Sketch Show on Netflix.
Coddett has performed stand-up at the NBC Universal Second City Breakout Festival, the New York Comedy Festival, the Women In Comedy Festival, the Brooklyn Comedy Festival,...
- 1/28/2022
- by Matt Grobar
- Deadline Film + TV
Showtime has renewed its half-hour comedy series Flatbush Misdemeanors for a second season.
Created by and starring Kevin Iso and Dan Perlman based on their digital series, Flatbush Misdemeanors is a raw comedy of city life following Dan and Kevin, who play characters struggling to thrive in their new surroundings in Flatbush, Brooklyn. The show explores two long-time friends seeking to climb out of their heads and connect with others.
Season one cast also includes Kristin Dodson, Hassan Johnson, Kareem Green and Kerry Coddett.
For their work writing, directing and starring in the shorts that form the foundation of the series, Iso and Perlman won Best North American Short Film at the London Film Festival, with the first installment becoming Oscar qualified following a Grand Jury Award at the Florida Film Festival.
Flatbush Misdemeanors is a co-production by Showtime and Avalon, which...
Created by and starring Kevin Iso and Dan Perlman based on their digital series, Flatbush Misdemeanors is a raw comedy of city life following Dan and Kevin, who play characters struggling to thrive in their new surroundings in Flatbush, Brooklyn. The show explores two long-time friends seeking to climb out of their heads and connect with others.
Season one cast also includes Kristin Dodson, Hassan Johnson, Kareem Green and Kerry Coddett.
For their work writing, directing and starring in the shorts that form the foundation of the series, Iso and Perlman won Best North American Short Film at the London Film Festival, with the first installment becoming Oscar qualified following a Grand Jury Award at the Florida Film Festival.
Flatbush Misdemeanors is a co-production by Showtime and Avalon, which...
- 8/24/2021
- by Denise Petski
- Deadline Film + TV
Showtime renewed “Flatbush Misdemeanors” for a second season and ordered a pilot titled “The Wood” from “The Chi’s” Justin Hillian and Rick Famuyiwa.
“Flatbush Misdemeanors,” which premiered its first season in May on the premium cabler, follows longtime friends Dan (Dan Perlman) and Kevin (Kevin Iso), who struggle to thrive while living in Brooklyn, N.Y. It’s an adaptation of Iso and Perlman’s digital series of the same title and is created by Iso and Perlman, executive produce alongside Richard Allen-Turner, Jon Thoday, David Martin and Chloe Pisello.
The show is a co-production between Showtime and Avalon; Avalon will continue to act as the lead studio on Season 2. Season 1 cast also included Kristin Dodson, Hassan Johnson, Kareem Green and Kerry Coddett.
“The Wood” is a new comedy pilot based on the 1999 feature film of the same title by Rick Famuyiwa. It will explore friendship and dating from...
“Flatbush Misdemeanors,” which premiered its first season in May on the premium cabler, follows longtime friends Dan (Dan Perlman) and Kevin (Kevin Iso), who struggle to thrive while living in Brooklyn, N.Y. It’s an adaptation of Iso and Perlman’s digital series of the same title and is created by Iso and Perlman, executive produce alongside Richard Allen-Turner, Jon Thoday, David Martin and Chloe Pisello.
The show is a co-production between Showtime and Avalon; Avalon will continue to act as the lead studio on Season 2. Season 1 cast also included Kristin Dodson, Hassan Johnson, Kareem Green and Kerry Coddett.
“The Wood” is a new comedy pilot based on the 1999 feature film of the same title by Rick Famuyiwa. It will explore friendship and dating from...
- 8/24/2021
- by Danielle Turchiano
- Variety Film + TV
The first scene of Showtime’s new series “Flatbush Misdemeanors” could go in any direction. It features a Black cop confronting another Black man on the grounds of a school, declaring to dispatch that he suspects him to be a “kidnapper or a child predator” and insisting upon searching him. The suspect was just delivering food, and the cop seizes it, stirs it with his pen, and licks it, before chasing after a kid who’s jumped over a fence. Whatever seeming threat there had been in the scene’s earliest moments has been defused; the cop is a goofy annoyance who has just enough power to be pernicious — not the threat he might have been in a different series, but a frustrating part of life in a city trying to figure out what it is.
This gets at what “Flatbush Misdemeanors” is, and what it’s attempting to do.
This gets at what “Flatbush Misdemeanors” is, and what it’s attempting to do.
- 5/21/2021
- by Daniel D'Addario
- Variety Film + TV
Kerry Coddett did not come to play on this week's brand-new episode of The Funny Dance Show! This sneak peek clip shows the comedian and star of HBO's Crashing at rehearsal, where she reveals that she used to be a choreographer and a professional dancer. "We have a triple threat on the show, we're gonna win!" her team captain Heidi Heaslet says while skipping by the cameras. Coddett is just as happy for her opportunity to perform. "This is everything I've ever wanted to do, comedy and dance," she says. "This is the perfect marriage." She adds that if the E! show added one more element, The Funny Dance Show would be even...
- 3/30/2020
- E! Online
Philadelphia comedian Chris Cotton has died at the age of 32, Comedy Central announced Wednesday. His cause of death was not immediately made public.
“We’re devastated by the loss of Chris Cotton – a hilarious comedian, a beloved member of the Comedy Central family and a joy to be around,” the network said in a statement. “He will be missed.”
A Philadelphia native, the stand-up hosted some of the network’s digital programming, including Comedy Central’s red carpet coverage of its own roast of Bruce Willis last year, and appeared on Comedy Central’s talk show “Every Damn Day.”
Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2019 (Photos)
His other on-screen credits include the web comedy series “Carpool Rules” and Shilpa Mankikar’s short film “Diwal’Oween,” as well as an appearance on “Gotham Comedy Live.” In August, Cotton self-published the memoir “What My Dad Did: My Theory of Joke Writing.”
Cotton...
“We’re devastated by the loss of Chris Cotton – a hilarious comedian, a beloved member of the Comedy Central family and a joy to be around,” the network said in a statement. “He will be missed.”
A Philadelphia native, the stand-up hosted some of the network’s digital programming, including Comedy Central’s red carpet coverage of its own roast of Bruce Willis last year, and appeared on Comedy Central’s talk show “Every Damn Day.”
Also Read: Hollywood's Notable Deaths of 2019 (Photos)
His other on-screen credits include the web comedy series “Carpool Rules” and Shilpa Mankikar’s short film “Diwal’Oween,” as well as an appearance on “Gotham Comedy Live.” In August, Cotton self-published the memoir “What My Dad Did: My Theory of Joke Writing.”
Cotton...
- 12/12/2019
- by Reid Nakamura
- The Wrap
Yuk it up and watch the new third season teaser for MTV's Joking Off TV show. Season three premieres Thursday, August 4, 2016 at 10:30pm Et/Pt, on MTV. Comedian and actor DeRay Davis hosts the half-hour comedy competition.New "jokesters" this season will include: Vinny Guadagnino, Derek Gaines, David Magidoff, Leonard Ouzts, J Snow, Casey Jost and Anna Lore. David Ebert, Desus, Mero, Matteo Lane, Matt Pavich, James Manzello, Kerry Coddett, Matt Richards, Mike Camerlengo, Julia Young, Kristen Acimovic, and Craig "Lowie" Low are among the returning cast members.Read More…...
- 7/14/2016
- by TVSeriesFinale.com
- TVSeriesFinale.com
On November 8, New York-based comedian Kerry Coddett (pictured, left) fired shots at Saturday Night Live with an editorial published on the Atlantic’s website. In it, she blasted the notion that the show’s cast hadn’t featured a black woman in years because — as longtime repertory player Kenan Thompson said in a widely-circulated interview last fall — “in auditions, they just never find ones that are ready.” Coddett contended instead that SNL’s diversity problems were endemic and ingrained. “Perhaps it’s not that black women aren’t ‘ready’ for SNL; it’s that SNL isn’t ready for a black woman,...
- 1/10/2014
- by Hillary Busis
- EW - Inside TV
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