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Mary Houlihan is a standup comedian, writer, and artist based in Brooklyn &amp; Los Angeles whose newest project, The Mary Houlihan Show, is now streaming on <a href="http://youtube.com/maryhoulihan" target="_blank" rel="noopener">YouTube</a>. She has appeared on The Chris Gethard Show, Broad City, Danny’s House, Billy On The Street, Rachel Dratch’s Late Night Snack, and Jimmy Kimmel Live. She writes for The New Yorker and McSweeney’s, and made the artwork for Joe Pera Talks With You on Adult Swim.

Mary Houlihan

Film

Walden, But Good

Will Thwaites is a documentary filmmaker based in Brooklyn, New York whose latest feature as director and producer, <a href="https://www.crimeandparody.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Crime &amp; Parody</a>, has its world premiere at the <a href="https://www.bigskyfilmfest.org/festival/films-2026-view/crime_parody/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Big Sky Documentary Film Festival</a> on Saturday February 21. He&#8217;s worked on projects for Netflix, Amazon, Hulu, and PBS. Will was a producer on two acclaimed Netflix series: Full Swing and My Next Guest with David Letterman. He started his career at Kartemquin Films (Oscar-nominated producers of Minding the Gap and Hoop Dreams), where he worked on the Emmy Award-winning film, The Homestretch. (Photo by BVO Media.)

Will Thwaites

How Failing at Comedy Helped Me Succeed as a Filmmaker

Tim Key is a comedian, poet, actor, and writer who co-wrote and stars in the new comedy <a href="https://www.focusfeatures.com/the-ballad-of-wallis-island/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">The Ballad of Wallis Island</a>, which is in select theaters from March 28 and everywhere from April 18. Key won the Perrier Award in 2009 and has since gone on to write and perform eight solo shows, including the smash hit, Mulberry. On screen, he is best known as Sidekick Simon in This Time with Alan Partridge, as well as The Double, Peep Show and The End of the F***ing World. Most recently, he was seen opposite Robert Pattinson in Bong Joon-ho’s Mickey 17 and played Commissioner Harrold Scott alongside Sam Rockwell and Saoirse Ronan in See How They Run. His radio series Late Night Poetry with Tim Key has just been commissioned for a sixth season and Key also has written several successful poetry anthologies, including Chapters, He Used Thought as a Wife and Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush.

Tim Key

Revisited: Three Great Things: Tim Key

Nick Dawson talks with filmmakers, musicians and comedians whose work he loves, avoiding the mundane, predictable questions they&#8217;ve heard numerous times and instead asking substantive, thoughtful questions that get to the heart of who they are.

Nobody’s Ever Asked Me That

Podcast

Nobody’s Ever Asked Me That: Sarah Sherman

Sara Zandieh is an award-winning director based in Los Angeles. Her latest film, <a href="https://doinitmovie.com/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Doin’ It</a>, starring Lilly Singh, premiered at the 2024 SXSW Film Festival and is out now in theaters. She also directed The Other Zoey, featuring Andie MacDowell and Heather Graham, which topped Amazon Prime’s charts for over 10 months. Zandieh made her debut feature with A Simple Wedding, starring Rita Wilson and Shohreh Aghdashloo, and she has directed episodes of NBC’s Good Girls and Grosse Pointe Garden Society. Her acclaimed short films include The Pool Party and Reza Hassani Goes to the Mall and she is a Fulbright Fellow and recipient of a MacDowell Colony residency. Zandieh was also selected for the La Fémis Director’s Workshop in Paris and holds an MFA in Film Directing from Columbia University.

Sara Zandieh

The Screwball Cure

Three Great Things: Tim Key

Rose Matafeo is a BAFTA nominated comedian, writer and actor from New Zealand whose new HBO Max original comedy special, <a href="https://www.max.com/movies/rose-matafeo-on-and-on-and-on/6ce47347-2f2e-4dec-8453-8170a087f647" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Rose Matafeo: On and On and On</a>, debuts on December 19. Rose is best known for creating, writing, directing, and starring in the HBO Max and BBC rom-com Starstruck. Soon after launching in the UK, the show’s three critically acclaimed seasons became BBC’s best-performing new comedy of the year. Her comedy special On and On and On recently received a nomination for “Best Show” at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival. Her previous comedy special, Horndog, won the award for Best Show at The Edinburgh Fringe Festival and was also nominated for Best Show at the Melbourne International Comedy Festival before being released on HBO Max in 2020. She can currently be heard as the voice of Loto in Disney’s Moana 2.

Rose Matafeo

Best of 2024: Rose Matafeo on Agatha All Along (and Challengers)

UK comedian Phil Wang’s latest comedy special, Wang in There, Baby!, is now streaming on Netflix, and he recently made his film debut alongside Timothée Chalamet in Wonka. He released his first Netflix special, Philly Philly Wang Wang, in 2021 and has also appeared on TV in Inside Amy Schumer, Life &amp; Beth, Taskmaster, and Have I Got News For You. Phil released his first book, the comedic memoir Sidesplitter, in 2021 to critical acclaim, featuring on The Times and Sunday Times’ Books of the Year list. Phil previously wrote and starred in his own BBC Radio 4 special, Wangsplaining which won Best Scripted Comedy (Longform) at the 2020 BBC Audio Awards, fronted the Audible original series Phil Wang Hates Horror, and co-hosts the hit podcast BudPod with Pierre Novellie. (Photo by Matt Crockett.)

Phil Wang

Three Great Things: Phil Wang

Susan Kelechi Watson starred as Beth Pearson on This is Us, winning awards and widespread acclaim for her performance. In addition to starring in the series, Watson penned an episode of the upcoming final season. Her other TV credits include Netflix’s animated series Ada Twist, Scientist, a major recurring role on Louie, and appearances on numerous other TV shows including The Blacklist, Divorce, Private Practice and Law &amp; Order. In film she starred in A Beautiful Day in the Neighborhood, Peter and John and Small Moving Parts. On stage she most recently starred in The Public Theater’s Shakespeare in The Park production of Merry Wives. As a producer, Watson executive produced and starred in the acclaimed HBO special of Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Between the World and Me. Watson’s first foray into producing was the film Premature, which debuted at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by IFC Films. Watson is also a proud Epic NEXT youth development mentor with the Epic Theatre Ensemble, a professional theater company with a mission to promote vital civic discourse and social change through drama.

Susan Kelechi Watson

Three Great Things: Susan Kelechi Watson

Rob Schneider’s latest movie, Daddy Daughter Trip, which he directed and stars in with his real-life family, is out now on DVD and digital. After starting out a stand-up comedian, Schneider rose to prominence as a cast member and writer on Saturday Night Live, from 1988 to 1994. Following his departure from SNL, he went on to a career in feature films, including starring roles in the comedy films Deuce Bigalow: Male Gigolo (1999) and its 2005 sequel, The Animal (2001), The Hot Chick (2002), The Benchwarmers (2006) and Big Stan (2007). Between 2015 and 2017, he starred in three season’s of the autobiographical sitcom Real Rob and in 2019 launched the podcast See What Happens.

Rob Schneider

Three Great Things: Rob Schneider

Russell Howard is <a href="https://www.russell-howard.co.uk/home#us-dates" target="_blank" rel="noopener">currently on tour</a> in the U.S. and launches his new podcast, <a href="https://www.russell-howard.co.uk/podcast" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Wonderbox</a>, on October 11. Wonderbox will see Howard discussing with special guests their &#8220;wonderbox,&#8221; which is a place where you keep the little reminders that make life worth living. He is one of the UK’s most successful comedians and the writer and star of The Russell Howard Hour (Sky) and the first comedian to release a special (Lubricant) accompanied by a documentary (Until the Wheels Come Off) on Netflix. Since the global lockdown Russell has been at the forefront of the live comedy scene, with a world tour, Respite, that took him to 79 cities across 24 countries in 5 continents. Russell has over 7 million followers on social media, and recently crossed 1 billion views across his YouTube channel, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.

Russell Howard

Three Great Things: Russell Howard

Signe Baumane’s new animated feature, <a href="https://www.myloveaffairwithmarriagemovie.com" target="_blank" rel="noopener">My Love Affair with Marriage</a>, which fuses animation with music, theater, science, photography, three-dimensional sets and traditional hand-drawn animation to tell the story of a spirited young woman&#8217;s quest for perfect Love and lasting Marriage, opens October 6 in New York City. She is a Latvian-born, Brooklyn-based independent filmmaker, artist, writer, and animator. She has made 17 award-winning animated shorts and is best known for her first animated feature, Rocks in my Pockets, which covers a 100-year history of depression and suicide of women in her family, including herself. It premiered at Karlovy Vary International Film Festival in 2014 where it won a FIPRESCI prize, went on to over 130 international festivals and opened theatrically in the U.S. through Zeitgeist Films. Signe is a Guggenheim Fellow and a Fellow in Film for New York Foundation for the Arts. She has a degree in Philosophy from Moscow State University.

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