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Maya Rudolph Says Her ‘Big Mouth’ Character Wants to Party With the ‘Stranger Things’ Cast

Maya Rudolph is on quite a roll. The SNL alum, who received nominations for best guest actress in a comedy series six years in a row — winning in 2020 and 2021 for returning to the NBC sketch series, first for a special appearance as Vice President Kamala Harris and then as the show’s host […]

Jak Knight, Stand-Up Comedian, Writer and Actor, Dies at 28

Jak Knight, a stand-up comedian, actor and writer who recently co-created the Peacock series Bust Down, has died. He was 28. Knight died Thursday night in Los Angeles, his family announced through an agency rep. Additional details, including cause of death, are not being released at this time. “Knight’s loved ones ask that their privacy […]

‘Loot’ Renewed for Second Season at Apple TV+

Apple TV+ is out to collect some more Loot. The tech giant’s streaming service has renewed Loot, starring and executive produced by Maya Rudolph, for a second season. The pickup comes at the midpoint of the comedy’s 10-episode first season, and two weeks after Apple signed a first-look deal with Animal Pictures, the production company […]

Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne’s Animal Pictures Inks Apple TV+ Deal

Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne’s Animal Pictures is formalizing its relationship with Apple TV+. The streamer has signed a first-look deal with Animal Pictures, led by president Danielle Renfrew Behrens. Under the multiyear deal, Apple will get the opening shot at series and digital feature projects developed at the company. The deal comes just a […]

Mega-Mansions, MacKenzie Scott and ‘Hot Ones’: Inside Maya Rudolph’s Billionaire Spoof ‘Loot’

Maya Rudolph wasn’t exactly seeking out her next television series. Then Alan Yang and Matt Hubbard, with whom she’d made her last show, the afterlife dramedy Forever, reached out with an idea. They’d been watching Amazon founder Jeff Bezos’ longtime marriage to MacKenzie Scott implode when it came to them: What if they centered a […]

Apple TV+’s ‘Loot’: TV Review

'Forever' creators Matt Hubbard and Alan Yang reunite with star Maya Rudolph for a comedy about a billionaire divorcee who turns her attentions from living well to doing good.

Maya Rudolph, ‘Loot’ Team on Building a Strong Cast: “Everyone in the Show Could Be the Lead of Their Own Show”

Money can’t buy happiness — but stacks of cash with Maya Rudolph’s face printed on them can get you pretty close. Happiness was certainly in the air on Wednesday evening at the West Hollywood premiere for Apple TV+’s upcoming comedy Loot, especially for star and executive producer Rudolph. “It was a joy,” Rudolph told The […]

Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne’s Production Company Has “Interests Outside of Female-Forward Comedy”

Maya Rudolph likes to say she established Animal Pictures, her production company with Natasha Lyonne, because it was a way to both be creative without having to “sit through hair and makeup” and spend more time with her longtime friend. She and Lyonne, along with Animal president Danielle Renfrew Behrens, a creative exec and a […]

Maya Rudolph Is Hiding in Plain Sight

There aren’t too many things that terrify Maya Rudolph. The list is basically black widow spiders, stand-up comedy and walking into a roomful of people she doesn’t already know and having to introduce herself. The first on that list could actually kill her, and the latter two require her to be herself, which is “just […]

Maya Rudolph Is a Divorced Billionaire Finding Herself (and Saving the World) in Apple’s ‘Loot’ Trailer

Maya Rudolph is rich, divorced and saving the world in the first trailer for her Apple TV+ series, Loot. The workplace comedy, from Emmy Award-winning creators Alan Yang (Little America, Master of None) and Matt Hubbard, also stars Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, Ron Funches, Nat Faxon and Joel Kim Booster. When the series begins, billionaire Molly […]

Amazon Sets Star-Studded Cast for Sci-Fi Animated Comedy ‘The Hospital’

Amazon’s The Hospital is coming into focus. The retail giant/streamer has handed out a formal two-season order for the animated sci-fi comedy from exec producers Maya Rudolph and Natasha Lyonne. The comedy, first announced in early 2020, has also set its star-studded cast with Keke Palmer, Greta Lee, Kieran Culkin, Sam Smith and Rudolph and […]

Netflix’s ‘Human Resources’: TV Review

The streamer spins off its raunchy and sentimental favorite 'Big Mouth' with a possibly raunchier animated comedy featuring even more Hormone Monsters, Shame Wizards, Lovebugs and Depression Kitties.