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Our New South, the Signal Award and Anthem Award-winning podcast from the Levine Museum of the New South and Next Chapter Podcasts, returns for an all-new season today, January 21.

Building on the success of the debut season, Washington Post journalist Kevin Blackistone and history professor Dr. Robert Greene II host a series of conversations that explore the complexities of the many Souths that make up today’s New South.

The 10-episode season highlights the stories, communities and challenges shaping the region, diving into censorship and healthcare, tourism and religion, struggles for rights and resources, and the global reverberations of New South culture.

Inspiring stories from guests including Aarón Sánchez, Amanda Jones (librarian & author), Speech (hip-hop artist from Arrested Development), Dr. Tonya Matthews (President and CEO of Charleston’s International African American Museum), and more provide unique perspectives on how the South is changing, how it remains familiar, and how it may look in the future.

Exclusive: Connor Ratliff, best known for creating the Dead Eyes podcast, where the actor tracked down Tom Hanks for comments he made on the set of Band of Brothers, is starring in a new scripted comedy podcast series.

In The Cards is an existential comedy romance series that features Ratliff, Chukwudi Iwuji (Marvel’s Guardians of the Galaxy), Steven Boyer (Hand to God), Jamie Ann Romero (The Play That Goes Wrong) and Laila Robins (The Walking Dead).

The series is written and directed by Kevin Henderson, who appeared in Avatar: The Way of Water. It comes from Next Chapter Podcasts, the company behind The 500 with Josh Adam Meyers and The Rex Chapman Show.

It launches on August 9 (listen to a trailer below).

The eight-part series follows Gil Garson (Ratliff), a low-level ad man who strives to win at life. But ever-optimistic Gil has one very big problem: he is literally...

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Jak Knight’s death sent shockwaves through Hollywood on Friday as word spread of his untimely passing at age 28.

Originally from Seattle and based in L.A., Knight was a regular on the stand-up stage and collected many admirers, friends and fans during a brief but bright career that included writing and voicing a character on Big Mouth, co-creating and starring in Peacock’s just-released Bust Down opposite close friends like Chris Redd and Sam Jay, and opening for stand-up legends like Dave Chappelle.

Below is a roundup of tributes and responses making the rounds on social media.

Rest In Peace Jak Knight. Hilarious comedian and a great guy. I can’t believe it.

— Kumail Nanjiani (@kumailn) July 16, 2022

I’m in shock. There was no one like Jak Knight. A singular talent, actually funny and a genuinely kind person, a rare combo. I...

Amy Schumer, James Acaster, Jimmy O. Yang and many other comedians have joined the lineup of Just for Laughs Montreal’s 40th anniversary festival. The news comes ahead of the launch for tickets of the event, which goes live Wednesday.

Schumer, Acaster, Yang, Jimmy Carr, Dara Ó Briain, Debra Digiovanni, Jacqueline Novak, Katherine Ryan, Maria Bamford, Fortune Feimster will all perform concert shows over the course of the almost three-week long Canadian comedy festival. In addition, Rick Mercer will host a special concert spotlighting Canadian comics. They join previously announced performers, who include John Mulaney and Hasan Minhaj.

Just for Laughs also announced a special gala celebrating the festival’s 40th anniversary, as well as several club shows, a podcast reading for Hesseltine and Rayna Greenberg’s comedy show “Girls Gotta Eat” and programming for the Off-jfl spin-off festival.

The festival also released the dates for its 26th annual New Faces series,...

In 2019, a curious thing happened to music streaming: The two biggest players in the industry, Spotify and Apple, both quietly stopped referring to themselves as music services. Though the two tech giants still tout their millions-strong song catalogs as the core of their products, the year has seen a series of aggressive moves from each of them in a different arena altogether.

That would be non-music audio content — and specifically podcasts, a booming format that attracts one-fifth of U.S. adults each week, according to Nielsen’s latest audience report.

Exclusive: Samantha Murphy, a comedy touring agent at UTA, has moved to become a comedy manager at Levity Entertainment Group. She started her career working with Nick Nuciforo at CAA before following him to UTA in 2015. Some of the clients she brings with her include Sean Patton, Ryan O'Flanagan, Josh Johnson, Josh Adam Meyers, Jf Harris and Billy Wayne…...

Exclusive: Samantha Murphy, a comedy touring agent at UTA, has moved to become a comedy manager at Levity Entertainment Group. She started her career working with Nick Nuciforo at CAA before following him to UTA in 2015. Some of the clients she brings with her include Sean Patton, Ryan O'Flanagan, Josh Johnson, Josh Adam Meyers, Jf Harris and Billy Wayne…...

That Thing You Do! has done it again!

Three on-screen band members of Tom Hanks' 1996 film about a 1960s rock group who scores a big hit -- Tom Everett Scott (Guy 'Shades' Patterson, drummer) Johnathon Schaech (Jimmy Mattingly, singer) and Ethan Embry (bassist) -- took the stage on Tuesday night at Los Angeles' iconic Roxy Theater to rock out and perform the group's titular song, "That Thing You Do."

Exclusive: Tom Hanks and Rita Wilson Joke About Being the 'Cool Grandparents'

And as fan pictures and videos from the event show, the boys have still got it!

"We reunited The Wonders aka The Oneders from the movie That Thing You Do. Played the hit song from the movie. It was magical," comedian Josh Adam Meyers, who hosted the Goddamn Comedy Jam, wrote on Instagram.

While Steve Zahn, who plays guitarist Lenny Haise in the film, was unable to attend, the band hilariously...

Johnathon Schaech, Ethan Embry, and Tom Everett Scott rocked the Roxy on Tuesday night.

The trio’s on-stage performance in Los Angeles marked the latest semi-reunion of The Wonders, formerly named The Oneders, from the 1996 movie That Thing You Do! While they were sans Tom Hanks, who played Mr. White, Schaech (Jimmy Mattingly), Embry (the unnamed bass player), and Scott (Shades) rocked out to the titular song.

“I hate that song,” Embry recalled to EW of the track for the film’s 20th anniversary. “I remember it reached that point of, like, ‘I can’t play this song one more time.

The crowd at the Roxy in L.A. received an unexpected bonus last night when That Thing You Do! movie band The Wonders (a.k.a. Oneders)—Tom Everett Scott (drummer Shades), Johnathon Schaech (singer Jimmy), and bass player Ethan Embry (The Bass Player)—reunited onstage to perform their singular, eponymous hit. Josh Adam Meyers facilitated the reunion for The Goddamn Comedy Jam; EW reports that Everett Scott teased the event out on Twitter “with a link pointing to The Goddamn Comedy Jam with Bill Burr: ‘Tonight at the Roxy there might be a little surprise for Ttyd.’”

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Steve Zahn, who played guitarist Lenny, was unfortunately Mia, but the rest of The Wonders gleefully took the stage along with a stand-in player wearing a Zahn mask. Even though Embry told EW recently that he was forever sick of “That Thing You Do!”—saying, “I hate that song.

In the next episode of Comedy Central’s “The Comedy Jam,” Mark Duplass teams up with Reo Speedwagon’s lead vocalist Kevin Cronin to perform the band’s 1984 hit “Can’t Fight This Feeling.” The new comedy and music series, created by Josh Adam Meyers and directed by Joel Gallen, premiered March 22.

The eight-episode weekly series is based on the special that aired back in August 2016 and the live shows in Los Angeles. Each episode features a different set of stand-up comedians performing in front of a live audience. They share a personal experience, which they relate to a hit song. After telling their story, the comedians sing the song backed by The Comedy Jam Band.

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