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Our favorite recurring tech troll Curtis Hubley ( J. Claude Deering) locates Riva’s offshore accounts in Belize and finds that Marta De Leon accessed them. 

"The Wake" features the return of cyber security guy Curtis Hubley (J. Claude Deering), who's been in a handful of episodes over the years. He's being hazed as the newest tech troll, which Kasie amusingly blows him off as, "Somebody else's problem."

After rebranding its in-shop selection of eats and treats (think pizza, sandwiches, soft serve, and more) as snackles in 2019, QuikTrip set about cementing the term — defined as “part snack, part meal” that can “satisfy any craving at any time” — as a cultural buzzword by producing a sitcom of its own. The result, directed by SNL’s Paul Briganti, is a pastiche of gently parodying homages to many of our favorite ‘90s shows that duly conveys how characters from any era would be wowed by consuming their preferred snackle. But specifically, it surfaces all the warmth and fuzzies we get from thinking about the programming we grew up with — your must-see TV, your TGIF block, and the laugh-tracked days of yore we’ve long since left behind. Here are some of the ‘90s beats that Briganti and his cast and crew covered to perfection.

In the timeline of podcasting, a pronounced blip will mark the shows that got their start during the time of the coronavirus. This time of the Great Weirdness is when actors and comedians are finding work scarce to none at all, so they’re turning to mics and Zoom to get whatever performance fix they can. J. Claude Deering is one such figure who banked a bunch of chats with fellow performer friends when shelter-in-place began in Los Angeles, and now he’s releasing them through Things Are Going Great for Me, a 12-episode “limited series.” This week’s main event is his old acting-school chum Melissa Fumero, who plays Amy Santiago on TV’s Brooklyn Nine-Nine but started out on Guiding Light, a long-running soap opera. They get into how BLM and other movements are shaping the scripts for the upcoming eighth season of Brooklyn Nine-Nine and the various convolutions the show went through to hide her first pregnancy only to write her second one into the show.

“I’ve been to the Academy Awards a couple of times and I always take my mom and we have a great old time and laugh a bunch and she holds all the Power Bars,” Pine said on the first episode of J. Claude Deering’s new podcast, adding that he ran into Tarantino one year at the Vanity Fair after-party. “He knows everything about my grandmother. He knows film names, co-stars, directors, production designers, just unbelievable. So [he and my mother] ended up talking for about 40 minutes and I went off and got another martini.”

On J. Claude Deering's podcast, 'Things Are Going Great for Me,' Pine opens up on 'Star Trek,' Quentin Tarantino and superheroes. Quentin Tarantino called Chris Pine "hands down, my favorite" actor of his generation, lobbing the compliment during an appearance on The Ringer’s Rewatchables podcast in January.

Speaking to comedian and actor J. Claude Deering on the inaugural episode of his "Things Are Going Great for Me" podcast, Pine calls Tarantino "a very cool dude," then recalls their encounter one night during a Vanity Fair Oscar party. Though he doesn’t mention the date, the two both attended the 2010 party hosted by then-editor-in-chief Graydon Carter.

Kathy Griffin isn’t the only one to use her comedic platform to poke fun at the current political climate; Funny or Die’s web series, “Baker Daily,” is taking its turn. The season 3 teaser promises to take aim at President Trump without holding back.

We all do it. No one talks about it…except when they’re alone… in the bathroom. LA-based comedy troupe Untitled Sketch Group and director J. Claude Deering present one of the simplest and most honest series this column’s seen in a while with their three-installment “Bathroom Thoughts.”