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The Best Comedy Specials of 2024 So Far
The TV landscape is still working through a hangover period in the wake of the Hollywood strikes, but you wouldn't...
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Let The Great North Be Your Respite From Wintry Murder Mysteries
One of TV's best comfort watches is back this Sunday, just in time to offer an alternative to the recent...
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Posted Wednesday 2/03/21 at 4:07PM EST
Jenny Slate welcomes her first child
"Yeah, I'm not pregnant anymore.
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Posted Friday 12/11/20 at 2:37PM EST
Jenny Slate reveals on Late Night with Seth Meyers that she's pregnant with her first child
"It's different.
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Big Mouth's Missy course correction works perfectly on a show about growth
Ayo Edebiri taking over the Missy Foreman-Greenwald role from Jenny Slate after Slate stepped down so Missy can be played...
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Your Guide to the Celebrity Guest Voices of Big Mouth Season 4
Netflix's Big Mouth returns for its fourth season this week.
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Posted Wednesday 12/02/20 at 2:33AM EST
Big Mouth decided to switch Missy's voice from Jenny Slate to Ayo Edebiri during Season 4 as it tackled the character's racial identity
Co-creator Nick Kroll emphasizes that it was Slate's idea to exit her role as the biracial Missy Foreman-Greenwald.
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The Vow: Fantasy Casting the Inevitable NXIVM Movie
What's been great about HBO's The Vow is the wildly compelling story at its center, about a Scientology-esque cult called...
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Netflix taps Ayo Edebiri to replace Jenny Slate on Big Mouth
The comedian and former Sunnyside writer and story editor will take over the biracial role of Missy on the animated...
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Posted Thursday 8/06/20 at 3:44AM EDT
Black voice actress from Star Wars: The Clone Wars was shocked she didn't get a chance to audition for Big Mouth and Central Park
"Imagine my surprise when I learned that so many Black roles I never even got the chance to audition for...
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Posted Thursday 7/16/20 at 1:44AM EDT
Jenny Slate explains how "I’ve learned how I’ve messed up" when it came to justifying voicing Big Mouth's Missy
"For a while I had thought, I don’t think I should play Missy," she said on the Good One podcast...
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Posted Wednesday 7/08/20 at 3:02PM EDT
Jenny Slate on her Big Mouth exit: "I looked around my life and I could see very clearly where my reasoning was flawed and racist"
In an interview with Buzzfeed's News O'Clock podcast, Slate expanded on leaving behind her Black Big Mouth character Missy last...
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Mike Henry exits Family Guy Cleveland Brown role: "Persons of color should play characters of color"
Henry announced on Twitter Friday afternoon he is leaving the role of Cleveland Brown that he's played since Family Guy's...
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Big Mouth and Central Park reveal the flaws of color-blind casting
Netflix's Big Mouth and Apple TV+'s Central Park respectively cast Jenny Slate and Kristen Bell as biracial kids who are...
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Posted Thursday 6/25/20 at 3:59AM EDT
BoJack Horseman creator Raphael Bob-Waksberg reiterates his regret over hiring a white actress to play a Vietnamese character
Bob-Waksberg revisited his evolution on the Diane Nguyen character, played by Alison Brie, in a late-night Twitter thread on Tuesday...