Here are the 2017 comedy Emmy nominations

The Emmys come only but once a year. And this year's looks to be more diverse than ever, comedy wise that is. The usual suspects like Veep are there but then newcomers like Samantha Bee and Pamela Aldon join the fun. The Emmys air on Sunday, September 17th at 8 PM. Stephen Colbert will host so we know who's not winning his award...(jk I don't know).

“Outstanding Comedy Series
Atlanta
Black-ish
Master of None
Modern Family
Silicon Valley
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Veep

Outstanding Variety Talk Series
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Jimmy Kimmel Live
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
The Late Late Show with James Corden
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Real Time with Bill Maher

Outstanding Variety Sketch Series
Billy on the Street
Documentary Now!
Drunk History
Portlandia
Saturday Night Live
Tracey Ullman’s Show

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series
Anthony Anderson, Black-ish
Aziz Ansari, Master of None
Zach Galifianakis, Baskets
Donald Glover, Atlanta
William H. Macy, Shameless
Jeffrey Tambor, Transparent

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Pamela Adlon, Better Things
Jane Fonda, Grace and Frankie
Allison Janney, Mom
Ellie Kemper, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Julia-Louis Dreyfus, Veep
Tracee Ellis Ross, Black-ish
Lily Tomlin, Grace and Frankie

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series
Louie Anderson, Baskets
Ty Burrell, Modern Family
Alec Baldwin, Saturday Night Live
Tituss Burgess, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Tony Hale, Veep
Matt Walsh, Veep

Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
Vanessa Bayer, Saturday Night Live
Leslie Jones, Saturday Night Live
Kate McKinnon, Saturday Night Live
Kathryn Hahn, Transparent
Judith Light, Transparent
Anna Chlumsky, Veep

Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series
Riz Ahmed, Girls
Matthew Rhys, Girls
Dave Chappelle, Saturday Night Live
Lin-Manuel Miranda, Saturday Night Live
Tom Hanks, Saturday Night Live
Hugh Laurie, Veep

Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
Wanda Sykes, Black-ish
Carrie Fisher, Catastrophe
Becky Ann Baker, Girls
Angela Bassett, Master of None
Kristen Wiig, Saturday Night Live
Melissa McCarthy, Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Directing for a Comedy Series
Donald Glover, Atlanta
Jamie Babbitt, Silicon Valley
Mike Judge, Silicon Valley
Morgan Sackett, Veep
David Mandell, Veep
Dale Stern, Veep

Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series
Donald Glover, Atlanta
Stephen Glover, Atlanta
Lena Waithe, Master of None
Alec Berg, Silicon Valley
Billy Kimball, Veep
David Mandell, Veep

Outstanding Animated Program
Archer
Bob’s Burgers
Elena and the Secret of Avalor
The Simpsons
South Park

Outstanding Writing for a Variety Series
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee
Last Week Tonight with John Oliver
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Saturday Night Live

Outstanding Writing for a Variety Special
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee Presents Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner
Louis C.K. 2017
Sarah Silverman: A Speak of Dust
Stephen Colbert’s Live Election Night Democracy’s Series Finale: Who’s Going to Clean Up This Sh*t?
70th Annual Tony Awards

Outstanding Short Form Series – Comedy or Drama
Brown Girls
Fear the Walking Dead: Passage
Hack into Broad City
Los Pollos Hermanos Employee Training
Marvel’s Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.: Slingshot

Outstanding Short Form Series – Variety
Behind the Voice
The Daily Show – Between the Scenes
Epic Rap Battles of History
Honest Trailers
The Star Wars Show

Outstanding Actor in a Short Form Series – Comedy or Drama
Ty Burrell, Boondoggle
Alan Tudyk, Con Man
Kim Estes, Dicks
Ben Schwartz, The Earliest Show
Jason Ritter, Tales of Titans
John Michael Higgins, Tween Fest

Outstanding Actress in a Short Form Series – Comedy or Drama
Mindy Sterling, Con Man
Jane Lynch, Dropping the Soap
Lauren Lapkus, The Earliest Show
Kelsey Scott, Fear the Walking Dead: Passage
Mindy Sterling, secs & EXECS”

Gillian Jacobs, Vanessa Bayer & Phoebe Robinson join the Netflix comedy "Ibiza"

Ensemble pics are all the rage and I'll be darned if I'm not a sucker for them. The latest movie to use this casting tactic is Ibiza, one of those Netflix originals. Deadline reports Gillian Jacobs, Vanessa Bayer and Phoebe Robinson have all joined the movie. Alex Richanbach will direct a script by Lauryn Kahn.

The women will star as a trio traveling to Barcelona and Ibiza for Jacobs's character's work. They then begin to hunt for a popular DJ in the city.

The script comes from Kahn, who'd been optioning it since 2014 at Sony. Gary Sanchez Productions’ Will Ferrell, Adam McKay and Kevin Messick produce alongside Good Universe’s Nathan Kahane, Joe Drake, and Erin Westerman. Ibiza will begin shooting in August.

The Brooklyn Comedy Festival returns with full sound, color

Creating a trailer and using a hit song from the Alabama Shakes is a risky move for a comedy festival to make. But the hipsters who put together the Brooklyn Comedy Festival don't care what you think; they only want you to come and laugh at all the comedians. And what a list they have (many of whom we've spoken to). Not only are big names like Vanessa Bayer, Sasheer Zamata, Phoebe Robinson and Josh Gondelman performing but they'll be joined by Julio Torres, Nimesh Patel, Brett Davis, MURDERFIST, Reformed Whores,  Myq Kaplan, Sean Donnelly, Joel Kim Booster, Michelle Buteau, Dan Soder, Hari Kondabolu, Joe List, Jo Firestone, Aparna Nancherla, Joe Pera, and Langston Kerman. And Reggie Watts is closing out the whole thing with a performance at the Music Hall of Williamsburg. The Brooklyn Comedy Festival goes from August 22nd to the 28th. Shows will be free or paid but you can always spring for the relatively affordable $99 VIP pass that will get you in everywhere except for a corporate job. Enjoy the festival and ride off in the sunset with your penny-farthing bikes, you bearded bastards.

Jenny Slate, Jack Black to star in a polka movie while Zoe Lister-Jones, Adam Pally and Fred Armisen rock out

Indie movies are a sure fire way to get niche projects done. Better yet, they can come out exactly the way the creator wanted it to. They're getting made all the time while these other AAA blockbusters soak up all the sun. But the appeal of an indie movie is that Hollywood's top brass get a chance to shine in a more subdued, folk heavy environment.

Jenny Slate and Jack Black are starring together in The Polka King. Variety scooped the story saying that the Black produced movie is based on the 2009 documentary The Man Who Would be Polka King. The movie will follow Pennsylvania polka sensation Jan Lewan who got his fans to invest in a Ponzi scheme. Maya Forbes and Wolodarsky wrote and directed the script. The cast also includes Jason Schwartzman, Jacki Weaver, Vanessa Bayer, and J.B Smoove. 

On a more personal front, Zoe Lister-Jones recently finished what Hollywood Reporter is calling her passion project. She did everything from writing to directing and even producing. Oh and she starred in it too. And she wrote the songs? Jeez, calm down girl. The movie is called Band Aid and also stars Adam Pally and Fred Armisen. The story follows a couple on the brink of divorce after a miscarriage but they decide to turn their fights into rock songs, forming a rock band to save the marriage. Casting includes a ton of comedy and television favorites like Hannah Simone, Brookyln Decker, Chris D'Elia, Jesse Williams, Susie Essman, Ravi Patel, Erinn Hayes, Jamie Chung, Jerry O'Connell, Retta, Majandra Delfino, and Angelique Cabral. Wow, Lister-Jones sure did stack this cast. 

Amy Schumer doesn't remember Vanessa Bayer in these SNL promos

Amy Schumer is continuing her rising star train this weekend as she prepares for a stint on Saturday Night Live. The comedienne performs the mandatory promos with her Trainwreck co-star Vanessa Bayer. Or was Bayer really in that movie? I think so. I don't remember and neither does Schumer.