Chevy Chase says his controversial "Community "exit was a 'misunderstanding,' insists 'I'm not racist' Ryan ColemanJanuary 1, 2026 at 10:56 PM 0 Trae Patton/NBCU Photo Bank/NBCUniversal via Getty Chevy Chase on 'Community' in 2009 Chevy Chase says he's not to blame for his controversial departure from the NBC sitcom Community. The debate over the events that led to Chase's 2012 exit has been reignited ahead of the release of I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not, a new CNN documentary about the actor that premieres Thursday night.

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Chevy Chase says he's not to blame for his controversial departure from the NBC sitcom Community.

The debate over the events that led to Chase's 2012 exit has been reignited ahead of the release of I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not, a new CNN documentary about the actor that premieres Thursday night. In it, Community director Jay Chandrasekhar confirms reports at the time that Chase used the N-word on set and went into a "full meltdown," with his costar Yvette Nicole Brown distancing herself from the ordeal. But Chase sees things differently.

"It wasn't a bad experience. I just didn't think it was that good, the show," Chase told The New York Times in a joint interview with the documentary's director, Marina Zenovich, published Thursday.

When interviewer Nicole Sperling pushed back on Chase's reaction, reminding him that he had spoken positively about the sitcom during his time on it, he dismissed her remark, saying simply, "Oh, shut up."

However, after several more prods, he offered the fullest version of his side of the story in years.

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Danny Pudi, Chevy Chase, Gillian Jacobs, Joel McHale, and Donald Glover on 'Community'

When asked why his daughter, Caley Chase, claimed in the documentary that the comedian "loved" the writing on Community, he replied, "My daughter can go to hell." After he was asked how he felt when his turn on the show wrapped, he quipped, "I thought it ended great." Then the SNL vet set aside the snark and got a bit more candid.

"It was too great a misunderstanding of what I was saying and not saying," he said. "I thought that there was at least one person — and another who, for some ungodly reason, didn't get me, didn't know who I was, or didn't realize for one second I'm not racist. They were too young to be aware of my work. Instead, there was some sort of visceral reaction from them."

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According to a new account Chandrasekhar relays in I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not, Chase's alleged tirade began with a "blackface hand puppet" storyline written for his character, the ignorant and abrasive Pierce Hawthorne.

Chandrasekhar claims that Chase "said something" to Brown, whom he already had a "history" with regarding race. "She got up and stormed out of there," the director says in the doc. "Chevy storms off, so the producer is like, 'We need Yvette in the scene, right?' I'm like, 'Yeah, she's in the next scene.' And he goes, 'Well, she won't come out unless Chevy apologizes to her.'"

According to Chandrasekhar, Chase then told him that he "didn't say anything" to Brown and proceeded to explain that he "used to call Richard Pryor the N-word, and he used to call me the Honky, and we loved each other." The director adds that after the press reported the alleged incident, Chase returned to set complaining, "My career is ruined! I'm ruined!" and never came back.

The comedian's latest response echoes his past comments disparaging Community and his refusing to apologize over former costars and collaborators' negative accounts of working with him.

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Chevy Chase says he's not to blame for his controversial departure from the NBC sitcom *Community*.

The debate over the events that led to Chase's 2012 exit has been reignited ahead of the release of *I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not*, a new CNN documentary about the actor that premieres Thursday night. In it, *Community *director Jay Chandrasekhar confirms reports at the time that Chase used the N-word on set and went into a "full meltdown," with his costar Yvette Nicole Brown distancing herself from the ordeal. But Chase sees things differently.

"It wasn't a bad experience. I just didn't think it was that good, the show," Chase told *The New York Times *in a joint interview with the documentary's director, Marina Zenovich, published Thursday.

When interviewer Nicole Sperling pushed back on Chase's reaction, reminding him that he had spoken positively about the sitcom during his time on it, he dismissed her remark, saying simply, "Oh, shut up."

However, after several more prods, he offered the fullest version of his side of the story in years.

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Danny Pudi, Chevy Chase, Gillian Jacobs, Joel McHale, and Donald Glover on 'Community'.

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When asked why his daughter, Caley Chase, claimed in the documentary that the comedian "loved" the writing on *Community*, he replied, "My daughter can go to hell." After he was asked how he felt when his turn on the show wrapped, he quipped, "I thought it ended great." Then the *SNL *vet set aside the snark and got a bit more candid.

"It was too great a misunderstanding of what I was saying and not saying," he said. "I thought that there was at least one person — and another who, for some ungodly reason, didn't get me, didn't know who I was, or didn't realize for one second I'm not racist. They were too young to be aware of my work. Instead, there was some sort of visceral reaction from them."**

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According to a new account Chandrasekhar relays in *I'm Chevy Chase and You're Not*, Chase's alleged tirade began with a "blackface hand puppet" storyline written for his character, the ignorant and abrasive Pierce Hawthorne.

Chandrasekhar claims that Chase "said something" to Brown, whom he already had a "history" with regarding race. "She got up and stormed out of there," the director says in the doc. "Chevy storms off, so the producer is like, 'We need Yvette in the scene, right?' I'm like, 'Yeah, she's in the next scene.' And he goes, 'Well, she won't come out unless Chevy apologizes to her.'"

According to Chandrasekhar, Chase then told him that he "didn't say anything" to Brown and proceeded to explain that he "used to call Richard Pryor the N-word, and he used to call me the Honky, and we loved each other." The director adds that after the press reported the alleged incident, Chase returned to set complaining, "My career is ruined! I'm ruined!" and never came back.

The comedian's latest response echoes his past comments disparaging *Community* and his refusing to apologize over former costars and collaborators' negative accounts of working with him.**

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"Beverly Hills, 90210" star Gabrielle Carteris reveals why Andrea never wore a bathing suit: 'It enraged me' Raechal ShewfeltJanuary 1, 2026 at 10:00 PM 0 Gabrielle Carteris poses in shorts alongside her 'Beverly Hills, 90210' costars Beverly Hills, 90210 actress Gabrielle Carteris always managed to wear more clothing than the other women on the show, and now we know why.

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Beverly Hills, 90210 actress Gabrielle Carteris always managed to wear more clothing than the other women on the show, and now we know why.

The reason that her Andrea Zuckerman was never in a bikini or even a one-piece swimsuit is simply because Carteris "didn't want to be seen that way," she revealed on a recent episode of former costar Jennie Garth's I Choose Me podcast.

"[Executive producer] Aaron Spelling, I remember before we started the summer episodes, [saying,] 'All right, ladies, we're going to be wearing bathing suits in the summer, so you might want to know that.' I was like, 'What does that mean?' I refused to wear a bathing suit. I don't know if you ever saw, I never wore a bathing suit."

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Garth, who played Kelly Taylor, recalled that Carteris had often been clad in "hot little shorts" for scenes at the beach.

"I wore shorts or I had my leotard and my shorts," Carteris noted. "I wore my overalls and my tank top, but I refused to wear [a swimsuit], because it infuriated me. I mean, I had a cute little body at the time, I think, but it enraged me that that was the conversation."

At the time of filming, Carteris was more than a decade older than her female costars, who included Garth, Tori Spelling, and the late Shannen Doherty. They were still teens, like they played on the drama about twins from Minneapolis and their mostly wealthier friends coping with life in the glamorous city.

Garth asked if the reason for her decision had been that she "didn't want to be objectified."

It was.

"Yes. I didn't like that," Carteris said, explaining that she didn't audition for roles that required wearing itty-bitty outfits.

"I did a lot of commercials before I did 90210. I was very fortunate to have a very good commercial life," she said. "[Back] when commercials, you know, you could do something. I never would go on an audition with a bathing suit."

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She didn't seem to think it had affected her time on the series, which aired from 1990 to 2000. While the series ran on Fox for 10 seasons, all of which Garth was a part of, Carteris left the show full-time in the sixth.

"I just didn't want to objectify myself. So I never did," Carteris shared. "They never challenged me on it at 90210. I'm sure it made it so certain things they chose for me not to do in the show, because I just wouldn't do that. I don't want to be seen that way."

Garth replied, "I love that."

Carteris explained on the July 25 episode of the 9021OMG podcast hosted by Garth and Tori Spelling that her departure from the show was for multiple reasons. It began, she believed, when her character welcomed a baby, which aligned with her entering motherhood in real life."They didn't know how to write for me after that, and it was just a matter of time. I was wanting something more, I think, and they just — it wasn't going to happen," Carteris said. "So I moved on."

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Childhood Adventure, Triumph and Tragedy: Inside the Royal Family's Winter Ski Vacations Simon PerryJanuary 1, 2026 at 11:15 PM 0 John Stillwell WPA Pool/Getty Princess Kate and Prince William with Prince George and Princess Charlotte in Courcheval, France in March 2016 Royal minds traditionally switch to skiing once the holidays are behind them Skiing is as associated with royals as polo and horse racing Prince William and Kate Middleton are keeping up a tradition of taking their children skiing, immersing them in the sport from an early age With Christmas in the rearview mirror, the thoughts...

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Prince William and Kate Middleton are keeping up a tradition of taking their children skiing, immersing them in the sport from an early age

With Christmas in the rear-view mirror, the thoughts of the royals traditionally turn to their favorite winter sport: skiing.

Throughout their childhood, Prince William and Prince Harry would be taken by their father, King Charles, to their favorite resort in the Swiss Alps, Klosters, for several days of sport.

It was a tradition that the then-Prince Charles and Princess Diana encouraged their sons from an early age. Charles had been introduced to Klosters by his friend Patty Palmer-Tomkinson, and he became so enamored with the resort that he would take himself off into the mountains to capture it with his watercolors. (Indeed, Charles first visited with his then-girlfriend Lady Sarah Spencer, the older sister of his eventual bride, Diana.)

Princess Diana, meanwhile, was an ace skier, as she worked as a maid in the Alps when she was a teen. She "was incredibly good at it," her former bodyguard Ken Wharfe has said of her prowess on the slopes.

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Prince Harry, Princess Eugenie, Princess Beatrice and Prince William in Klosters, Switzerland in Jan. 1995

Their sons continued skiing into their adult lives, and William and Kate Middleton have taken their children to the Alps a number of times, including in spring 2025, a vacation that made headlines when the couple successfully took legal action against French magazine Paris Match over the use of photographs of the family during their break.

In 2016, the couple did release an image of themselves with a young Prince George, now 12, and Princess Charlotte, now 10, on what was thought to be their first ski vacation as a foursome.

In the days of Charles' marriage to Diana and in the years afterward, there was an agreement with most of the press that a photocall would take place in exchange for them being left alone for the rest of their vacation, and it would become a regular stop-off for the traveling royal reporters.

In January 1995, the photographers had a bonus: William and Harry posed for a picture with their cousins Princess Beatrice and Princess Eugenie, who were in the resort with their parents, the former Prince Andrew and Sarah Ferguson.

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The then Prince Charles and Princess Diana in Klosters, Switzerland in February 1986

It wasn't long before both Prince William and Prince Harry were impressing with their grasp of the sport — or certainly their daring.

Harry "just wanted to go fast, so he skied solo down a mountain and ended up in some mud and flowers," Wharfe has described some of the younger prince's adventures. "We had to go and dig him out!"

As night fell over the resort in the years, the princes relaxed in one of the few bars, their protection officers keeping an eye from a few yards away. One such night in March 2005, Kate joined William and his group of friends as they were all in the resort celebrating what was dubbed as Charles' bachelor vacation ahead of his marriage the following month to Camilla.

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Prince Harry in Klosters, Switzerland in Feb. 1994

Being away in the mountains hasn't always been associated with happy times. In March 1988, when Diana was on holiday with Charles and a pregnant Sarah, she learned that Charles had been involved in a skiing accident.

An avalanche had caught some of Charles' party as they skied off piste, and his friend Major Hugh Lindsay, a former equerry to Queen Elizabeth, was tragically killed. Palmer-Tomkinson was seriously injured and was reportedly only saved by the swift actions of guide Bruno Sprecher.

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Prince William and Prince Harry, with their late mother Princess Diana, and nanny Olga Powell in Lech, Austria in Mar. 1993

In March 2002, when Charles and his sons were in Klosters, they received news that his grandmother, Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother, had died at the age of 101. He and the princes rushed back to the U.K. to be with the family.

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Further family heartbreak happened in March 1992 when Charles and Diana were away in Lech, Austria, and the princess was told that her father, Lord John Spence,r had died following a heart attack.

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Emme Maribel Muñiz is the oldest of Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony's 17-year-old twins.

They sang with Lopez at the 2020 Super Bowl and are preparing to go to college next year.

Lopez has been vocal about how close they are.

Emme Maribel Muñiz has long been in the spotlight, stealing the show at age 11 during their mother Jennifer Lopez's 2020 Super Bowl halftime show. Now 17, Emme and their twin brother, Max, are getting ready for college—and stepping out more with their mother at red carpet events.

Here, all there is to know about Lopez's oldest child (by just 11 minutes).

They've got pipes.

At the Super Bowl, Muñiz sang a J.Lo classic and a Bruce Springsteen classic in basically one breath! They apparently got every single one of their parents' good genes. They appeared to have zero stage fright and were bold enough to try to out-belt their mother.

They have a twin brother.

Emme has a twin who is incredibly talented. His name is Maximilian, and he was once in a youth production of the Wizard of Oz. To absolutely no one's surprise, he's an excellent singer. And he's very good at riding a hover board and fetching drinks!

Their father is Marc Anthony, and their baby photos cost a lot of money.

When Emme and Maximilian were born in February 2008, the New York Times reported that People paid more than $5 million for exclusive photos of Lopez and the twins, which they published on the cover and inside the magazine.

They've been in a music video.

Emme starred alongside their mother in J.Lo's "Limitless" music video, even daring to lip-sync the words and look flawless doing it.

They can sing Alicia Keys.

Young Emme did it with ease. Skip to 4:10 in this video and watch them sing "If I Ain't Got You." J.Lo got teary, and you may, too.

Lopez publicly introduced Emme with they/them pronouns in 2022.

In June 2022, during a performance at the Los Angeles Dodgers Foundation's Blue Diamond Gala, Lopez introduced Emme using gender-neutral pronouns. Bringing her 14-year-old onstage for a surprise duet, she told the crowd, "The last time we performed together was in a big stadium like this and I ask them to sing with me all the time, and they won't. So this is a very special occasion. They are very, very busy. Booked. And pricey. They cost me when they come out. But they're worth every single penny because they're my favorite duet partner of all time. So if you will indulge me."

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In 2024, they celebrated their 16th birthday in Tokyo.

Lopez marked a major milestone for her twins with a trip to Japan. On February 23, the singer shared an Instagram Reel captioned, "16 🥥🥥Birthday trip 2024 🤍🤍," showing the 16-year-olds exploring Tokyo with friends.

One clip showed the group sitting on the floor whisking matcha while wearing traditional Japanese kimonos. "I've never seen Max so excited," Lopez said at the start of the video. "I've never seen myself so excited," Emme replied.

Lopez shared rare footage from Emme's childhood for their 17th birthday.

To celebrate her twins turning 17, Lopez posted a heartfelt Instagram Reel filled with memories from their infancy to their teenage years. The video included home footage of the pair playing backstage with their mom, sharing hugs, and relaxing at home. Lopez also added selfies taken throughout the years. "I love you beyond forever 🥥🥥," she wrote in the caption.

They made a stylish red carpet appearance at Othello's Broadway premiere in March 2025.

Lopez and Emme attended the Othello opening night at New York City's Barrymore Theatre on March 23, turning the evening into a coordinated fashion moment. Lopez wore a crystal-embellished two-piece from Zuhair Murad's fall 2024 couture collection, complete with a dramatic coat and silver hoops. Emme opted for a pinstriped suit with a gray button-up, black tie, and Vivienne Westwood necklace.

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"Othello premiere with the best date ever ✨," Lopez captioned her Instagram, which featured photos of the two together on the red carpet.

They're preparing to go to college.

During an October 2025 Live With Kelly and Mark interview, Lopez revealed that Emme and their twin brother, Max, are looking ahead as they prepare to graduate high school. "We're visiting a college today," she said. "It's happening. They're leaving. They're going."

The singer reflected on the emotional transition, adding, "I'm happy because I remember how exciting that time of my life was when I was like, 'Oh, I'm figuring out what I want to do with my life.' It's an exciting adventure, and I want that for them. But I also think, 'Oh, I'm gonna be by myself.'"

Lopez said she's focused on maintaining a home her kids will always feel connected to: "Since they were born, I was like, whatever this is, whatever we create, the three of us together, it's going to be something that they always are like, 'When I go home, it feels good. It smells like home; it tastes like home.'"

She added, "They are 17. They'll be 18 in February. They are graduating this June from high school, and I feel like we are a close-knit three now. A lot has happened with us, and we had to bond together."

While she didn't specify what the twins plan to study, Lopez recently told CBS Sunday Morning that Emme is "a musical theatre kid." As she put it, "They go away for camp for musical theatre, and they do all the shows. And I get to go see them, and it's fantastic."

They rang in 2026 with their mom and brother Max onstage in Las Vegas.

Emme and Max joined Lopez to celebrate the clock striking 12 and 2026 starting during their mother's Las Vegas residency show. Lopez posted a clip of the special moment on Instagram. "HAPPY NEW YEAR live from Las Vegas! 💫✨," Lopez wrote.

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Sigourney Weaver is still not over the Beatles.

The star of new movie *Avatar: Fire and Ash* mentioned the Fab Four more than once when she was given the Colbert Questionnaire on a recent episode of* The Late Show With Stephen Colbert*.

And, like everyone, she had a favorite. Hers was John Lennon — who, along with Paul McCartney, George Harrison, and Ringo Starr, formed the British rock band that famously invaded America — before he was shot and killed outside his New York City apartment building on Dec. 8, 1980, at just 40.

She confessed to Colbert, who asked whether she's ever asked for a celebrity's autograph, that she'd once written Lennon a special message.

"I wrote a several-page letter on lavender stationery with purple ink,' Weaver said. "'Dear John.' It was like five pages front and back. And I folded it up. I put an envelope, and I dropped it off at this restaurant that I heard he went to."

She couldn't recall what she's written, but she didn't seem to want to.

"I hope they threw it away," Weaver said.****In the same interview, the three-time Oscar nominated star was asked about the first concert that she attended, which was of course the Beatles.

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Weaver, who's 76, thought she might have been 12 when she saw the act at the Hollywood Bowl in 1961. Colbert reminded her, however, that the act landed stateside in 1964.

What Weaver had no trouble recalling was the volume of the crowd.

"Girls screaming all around me," she said. "You couldn't hear [the Beatles] at all."

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Her momentous night was captured in Ron Howard's documentary about the group, *The Beatles: Eight Days a Week - The Touring Years*. she noted. And Colbert showed a photo of Weaver, yes, trying to hear the "She Loves You" singers.

"The Hollywood Bowl went through all its archives, and I suddenly get an email about 10 years ago saying, 'We think this is you.' And there I am," Weaver said. "My hair is huge because I put it on beer cans all day, straightened it, and I'm wearing my one nice dress."

She admitted to letting out quiet screams every now and then because of the peer pressure she felt.

On her way out of the concert, as Weaver walked in the street with someone she'd befriended at the concert, she had what just might have been the best moment of the experience.**

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A limo carrying the artists themselves rode by, and she got a wave from both Lennon and McCartney.

"I don't remember what the other two did, because we were so excited that we'd come close, like 10 feet away as the car went by," Weaver recalled. "Honestly, I think we both went home and just lay on our backs and looked at the ceiling for 24 hours."

At one point, Weaver did explain why Lennon had been her chosen favorite.

"I read in a fan magazine that he used to work at the airport for VIPs," she said. "He made a plate of sandwiches and, just before he sent them out, he'd put his shoe in them and then put it back together and put it on the platter. I thought that was so cool."**

*Avatar: Fire and Ash *is in theaters now.**

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"The Comeback" season 3 will honor the late Robert Michael Morris' Mickey: 'A big loss' (exclusive) Patrick GomezJanuary 2, 2026 at 5:26 AM 0 Sundance Channel Mickey (Robert Michael Morris) and Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) on 'The Comeback' season 1 in 2005 Michael Patrick King knows there was a fine line to dance when crafting Lisa Kudrow's The Comeback character Valerie Cherish.

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Mickey (Robert Michael Morris) and Valerie Cherish (Lisa Kudrow) on 'The Comeback' season 1 in 2005

Michael Patrick King knows there was a fine line to dance when crafting Lisa Kudrow's The Comeback character Valerie Cherish.

The fading sitcom star at the center of the co-creator's HBO comedy could easily be seen as vapid and narcissistic, but those around her who knew the real Valerie helped ground the character and showed the audience why people fell in love with her on her breakout comedy, I'm It.

And no one served that role more than Valerie's longtime hair stylist, Mickey (Robert Michael Morris).

"People fell in love with Valerie because of Mickey," King tells Entertainment Weekly. "They could see her through his eyes."

Now, as King and Kudrow prepare to bring The Comeback back for a third season after an 11-year hiatus, they will have to do so without Mickey, as Morris died in 2017 at the age of 77 after battling stage 4 melanoma.

But, King promises, the comedy will find a way to honor Morris and Mickey.

"How could you not?" he says. "You know that we're going to bring up Mickey. There has to be a way to acknowledge his absence. We tried to find a way that would not at all deny that, but also not.... Hopefully, he'll be served. It's important."

"Robert Michael was such a big, big, big, big, big, big moment. And his absence is a big loss. A big loss," he continues. "And Mickey being gone is a loss for us as well, so we'll have to address that."

The new season will see Valerie as the star of a new multi-camera sitcom called How's That?!, which is written by AI.

"But the thing we didn't want to do is the obvious joke that AI is bad. That's all been done," King recently told EW of the new storyline. "The scary thing about AI is that maybe it's learning really fast, and what does that do to our business. What does that do to our perception of what television is and what writing is, and what being an actor is? The most fun thing about Valerie in AI is all her drama has been with writers. And now what will her drama be if there are no writers?"

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Season 3 will see the return of reality show producer Jane (Laura Silverman), and Valerie's husband, Mark (Damian Young), and publicist, Billy (Dan Bucatinsky) — but also the addition of Andrew Scott as a studio head, as well as Abbi Jacobson, John Early, Tim Bagley, Matt Cook, Jack O'Brien, Ella Stiller, Barry Shabaka Henley, Tony Macht, Brittany O'Grady, Zane Phillips and Julian Stern.

The Comeback season 3 is set to debut in March on HBO.

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