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Hacks (TV Series)
''Hacks'' is an American comedy-drama television series created by Lucia Aniello, Paul W. Downs, and Jen Statsky that premiered on May 13, 2021, on HBO Max. Starring Jean Smart, Hannah Einbinder, and Carl Clemons-Hopkins, the series centers on the professional relationship between a young comedy writer and a legendary stand-up comedienne. The series received critical acclaim and won accolades including Primetime Emmy Awards for Outstanding Writing, Outstanding Directing, and for Smart, Outstanding Lead Actress, as well as the Golden Globe Award for Best Television Series – Musical or Comedy. In June 2021, the series was renewed for a second season, which premiered on May 12, 2022. In June 2022, the series was renewed for a third season. Premise Deborah Vance, a legendary Las Vegas stand-up comedy diva, needs to re-invent her aging act to avoid losing her residency at the Palmetto Casino. Ava is a young comedy writer who is unable to find work due to an insensitive tweet and ...
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Comedy Drama
Comedy drama, also known by the portmanteau ''dramedy'', is a genre of dramatic works that combines elements of comedy and Drama (film and television), drama. The modern, scripted-television examples tend to have more humorous bits than simple comic relief seen in a typical hour-long legal or medical drama, but exhibit far fewer jokes-per-minute as in a typical half-hour sitcom. In the United States Examples from United States television include: ''M*A*S*H (TV series), M*A*S*H'', ''Moonlighting (TV series), Moonlighting'', ''The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd'', ''Northern Exposure'', ''Ally McBeal'', ''Sex and the City'', ''Desperate Housewives'' and ''Scrubs (TV series), Scrubs''. The term "dramedy" was coined to describe the late 1980s wave of shows, including ''The Wonder Years'', ''Hooperman'', ''Doogie Howser, M.D.'' and ''Frank's Place''. See also *List of comedy drama television series *Black comedy *Dramatic structure *Melodrama *Seriousness *Tragicomedy *Psychological ...
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HBO Max
HBO Max is an American subscription video on-demand over-the-top streaming service owned by Warner Bros. Discovery. Launched in the United States on May 27, 2020, the service is built around the libraries of HBO, Warner Bros., Cartoon Network, Adult Swim, and their related brands. The service also carries first-run programming from the HBO pay television service, original programming under the "Max Originals" banner, and content acquired via third-party library deals (such as those with film studios for pay television rights) and co-production agreements (such as those with BBC Studios and Sesame Workshop among others). The service succeeds both HBO Now—a previous HBO SVOD service, and HBO Go—the on-demand streaming platform for HBO pay television subscribers. In the U.S., HBO Now subscribers and HBO pay television subscribers were migrated to HBO Max at no additional charge, subject to availability and device support. HBO Max also supplanted the streaming componen ...
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Jane Adams (actress, Born 1965)
Jane Adams (born 1965) is an American actress. She made her Broadway debut in the original production of ''I Hate Hamlet'' in 1991, and won the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 1994 revival of ''An Inspector Calls''. Her film roles include ''Happiness'' (1998), ''Wonder Boys'' (2000), '' Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind'' (2004), and '' Little Children'' (2006). She also had a recurring role on the NBC sitcom ''Frasier'' (1999–2000), and was nominated for the 2010 Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress on Television for the HBO series ''Hung'' (2009–11). Early life Jane Adams was born in Washington, DC, the daughter of Janice, an administrative assistant, and William Adams, an engineer. She has a younger brother, Jonathan, and was raised in Wheaton, Illinois, and Bellevue, Washington. Adams attended the University of Washington, where she studied political science, and the Cornish College of the Arts, where she took theater. She attended ...
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Johnny Sibilly
Johnny Sibilly (born September 5, 1987) is an American actor and producer. His work includes roles in ''Pose'', ''The Deuce'', ''Hacks'' and the ''Queer as Folk'' reboot on Peacock. Early life Sibilly grew up in a military family and lived in Germany, Texas, and Miami. From a young age, he knew he wanted to be an actor. Career In 2018, Sibilly began a recurring role in the FX drama ''Pose''. He auditioned for the show three times before being cast. In December 2020, Sibilly began hosting a twice-weekly series for Logo TV called Logo Live, a rundown of the day's top stories featuring celebrity guests. In February 2021, he was announced as a recurring guest star on the HBO show ''Hacks''. In September 2021, Sibilly was announced as one of five cast members of a new ''Queer as Folk'' reboot on Peacock Peafowl is a common name for three bird species in the genera ''Pavo (genus), Pavo'' and ''Afropavo'' within the tribe Pavonini of the family Phasianidae, the pheasants a ...
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Kaitlin Olson
Kaitlin Willow Olson (born August 18, 1975) is an American actress. She began her career in The Sunday Company at the Groundlings, an improvisational theatre and school in Los Angeles, California. She had minor roles in several television series before being cast as Deandra "Sweet Dee" Reynolds on the FX comedy series ''It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia'' (2005–present). Olson starred as Mackenzie "Mickey" Murphy in the Fox comedy series '' The Mick'' (2017–2018) and as Cricket Melfi in the Quibi comedy series '' Flipped'' (2020), which earned her a nomination for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Comedy or Drama Series. Olson has also appeared in films, including ''Leap Year'' (2010), '' The Heat'' (2013), ''Vacation'' (2015), ''Finding Dory'' (2016), and ''Arizona'' (2018). In 2022, Olson earned an Emmy nomination for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series for her role as DJ in HBO's ''Hacks''. Early life Olson was born in Portland ...
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Poppy Liu
Poppy Liu (柳波; pinyin: Liǔ Bō) is a Chinese actress, activist and poet, known for her roles in the sitcoms '' Sunnyside'', '' Hacks'', and '' iCarly''. Early life and education Liu was born in Xi'an, China. Her family moved to Minnesota when she was two while her father, an engineering professor, earned a second PhD. During this time, her mother attended night classes in computer programming and worked at hotels and McDonald's. The family moved back to China when Liu was 14, where she attended an American school in Shanghai. During high school, she became interested in performing, and participated in Chinese dance, ballet and theater. Liu attended Colgate University in Hamilton, New York, and majored in women's studies and theater. She graduated in 2013. Career After graduation, Liu founded the production company Collective Sex, with a focus on decolonizing storytelling and eliminating stigmas around sex and identity. In 2018, she debuted her short film ''Names of Wo ...
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Megan Stalter
Megan Stalter (born September 15, 1990)Zinoman, Jason''The New York Times'' 29 Mar. 2020. is an American comedian and actress. In her videos, Stalter specializes in desperate, deluded characters who are prone to theatricality, frequent mispronunciations, and botched suicide attempts.Gillespie, Katherine''Paper'' 6 May 2020. "I feel like all my characters are people whose lives didn't turn out a certain way, but they're still trying to pretend like it did," Stalter has said. Stalter plays Kayla in the HBO Max comedy ''Hacks.'' Early life Stalter was born in Cleveland, where she lived until the age of 12. She then moved around with her family, and lived in Dayton, Huber Heights and Centerville, Ohio. She was raised in the Pentecostal Church. Stalter attended Wayne High School, where she was part of the drama club, and tried out for every play, but never got the lead. After graduating from high school, Stalter attended Sinclair Community College and later Wright State University, ...
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Rose Abdoo
Rose Marie Abdoo (born November 28, 1962) is an American actress and comedian, known for her roles as Stars Hollow's local mechanic, Gypsy, on ''Gilmore Girls'' and as Spanish teacher Señorita Rodriguez on ''That's So Raven''. Life and career Abdoo was born in Detroit, Michigan. She is of Lebanese and Dominican descent. Her father, Peter Abdoo, was a budget analyst for the United States Army Corps of Engineers and her mother, Mary, was a homemaker.Murray, Tom. "Gypsy Rose," ''DBusiness'' (Detroit, MI), July-August 2020.
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Abdoo's career began in Chicago, where she performed at various

Christopher McDonald
Christopher McDonald (born February 15, 1955) is an American film, television, theatre and voice actor. McDonald is best known for playing the villainous professional golfer Shooter McGavin in the 1996 comedy ''Happy Gilmore''. Other notable starring roles for McDonald in film include "T-Birds" member Goose McKenzie in ''Grease 2'' (1982), Darryl Dickinson opposite his former fiance Geena Davis in ''Thelma & Louise'' (1991), Ward Cleaver in the film adaptation '' Leave It to Beaver'' (1997), and Tappy Tibbons in ''Requiem for a Dream'' (2000). Along with numerous independent and small-budget film roles, he played supporting characters in box-office hits '' Grumpy Old Men'' (1993), '' Flubber'' (1997), ''Rumor Has It'' (2005), ''The House Bunny'' (2008) and '' About Last Night'' (2014). Voice acting roles for McDonald include Jor-El on '' Superman: The Animated Series'' (1996), Kent Mansley in ''The Iron Giant'' (1999), Superman on ''Batman Beyond'' (2000) and Harvey Dent on ...
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Mark Indelicato
Mark Indelicato (born July 16, 1994) is an American actor, singer, fashion blogger, and photographer best known for his role in the ABC comedy series '' Ugly Betty'', as Justin Suarez, the fashion-obsessed nephew of series protagonist Betty Suarez. Life and career Indelicato was born in Philadelphia, the son of Lynn and Mark Indelicato, Sr. He is of three quarters Italian and one quarter Puerto Rican descent. He was trained at The Actors Center in that city, and is a student at Dupree School of Music in Linwood, New Jersey. He began acting at age eight at Philadelphia's Walnut Street Theater, and has appeared in national television commercials, the CBS television series "Hacks", '' Chappelle's Show'', and was a regular cast member of '' Ugly Betty'' on ABC until the series ended in 2010. He also attended the Professional Performing Arts School, before moving back to Los Angeles. He is attending New York University's Gallatin School of Individualized Study. Indelicato ...
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Chief Operating Officer
A chief operating officer or chief operations officer, also called a COO, is one of the highest-ranking executive positions in an organization, composing part of the "C-suite". The COO is usually the second-in-command at the firm, especially if the highest-ranking executive is the chairperson and CEO. The COO is responsible for the daily operation of the company and its office building and routinely reports to the highest-ranking executive—usually the chief executive officer (CEO). Responsibilities and similar titles Unlike other C-suite positions, which tend to be defined according to commonly designated responsibilities across most companies, a COO's job tends to be defined in relation to the specific CEO with whom they work, given the close working relationship of these two individuals. The selection of a COO is similar in many ways to the selection of a vice president or chief of staff of the United States: power and responsibility structures vary in government and priva ...
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Twitter
Twitter is an online social media and social networking service owned and operated by American company Twitter, Inc., on which users post and interact with 280-character-long messages known as "tweets". Registered users can post, like, and 'Reblogging, retweet' tweets, while unregistered users only have the ability to read public tweets. Users interact with Twitter through browser or mobile Frontend and backend, frontend software, or programmatically via its APIs. Twitter was created by Jack Dorsey, Noah Glass, Biz Stone, and Evan Williams (Internet entrepreneur), Evan Williams in March 2006 and launched in July of that year. Twitter, Inc. is based in San Francisco, California and has more than 25 offices around the world. , more than 100 million users posted 340 million tweets a day, and the service handled an average of 1.6 billion Web search query, search queries per day. In 2013, it was one of the ten List of most popular websites, most-visited websites and has been de ...
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