Kevin Hart’s Comedy Competition, an Animated ‘Kevin,’ Cheech & Chong and More 4/20 Highs, ‘Sullivan’s Crossing’ Returns
Kevin Hart hosts a comedy competition searching for the next great stand-up star. Not to be confused with Prime Video‘s animated Kevin, about a droll housecat who abandons his owners. Legendary comedy duo Cheech & Chong reflect on their career as TV acknowledges 4/20, an unofficial national cannabis day. The CW‘s romantic drama Sullivan’s Crossing returns, setting up a new love triangle.
Funny AF With Kevin Hart
Series Premiere
Who knows what makes comedians tick better than fellow comedians? Kevin Hart launches a three-week comedy competition looking for the next bold voice in stand-up. He enlists a few of his famous friends (Keegan-Michael Key, Chelsea Handler, Nikki Glaser, Kumail Nanjiani, and Tom Segura) as guest judges in a show designed to reflect the grind many wannabe comics endure on their road to a potential breakthrough. One lucky contestant will be rewarded with their own Netflix comedy special. The series launches with four episodes, two more on April 27, with a live semifinal scheduled for May 4 and finale on May 5, when the winner is decided from viewers’ real-time votes.
Kevin
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By one of those weird programming coincidences, another Kevin — this one in talking-cat form (voiced by Jason Schwartzman) — is the focal point of an adult (as in potty-mouthed) animated comedy co-created by Aubrey Plaza and Joe Wengert. Kevin, whose prolapsed posterior is the, um, butt of many scatological jokes, is disgruntled when his owners break up, and though Dana (Plaza) offers to take him with her, he opts instead to take shelter in a pet-rescue haven for misfit animals. The voice cast, including Whoopi Goldberg as a seen-it-all feline, John Waters as a been-there theater-cat Persian and Amy Sedaris as a bossy little canine, often rises above the droll, doggedly outrageous material.
Cheech & Chong’s Last Movie
You could get a contact high watching this amiable 2025 documentary profile of the legendary comedy duo Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong, whose hit albums and films (including Up in Smoke) in the 1970s and ’80s celebrated a stoner counterculture. The film, making its streaming debut on the “high holiday” of 4/20, uses archival clips and animation to chronicle their partnership, breakup, and reunion as the duo embarks on a nostalgic road trip to a place known as “The Joint.” Some things never change.
Sullivan’s Crossing
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The fourth season of the Canadian romantic drama picks up after the departure of Sully (Scott Patterson) to Ireland and the surprise arrival in Nova Scotia of neurosurgeon Maggie’s (Morgan Kohan) ex-husband, Liam (Marcus Rosner). For those versed in love triangles, this signals complications in Maggie’s deepening bond with campground handyman Cal (Chad Michael Murray), whose green-eyed jealousy monster emerges while Maggie tries to understand why Liam is back in her life.
4×20: Quick Hits
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Also in the “4/20” spirit, a documentary executive-produced by Jimmy Kimmel compiles four 20-minute non-fiction shorts exploring the weed culture. Films include “Highly Unlikely,” about the making of Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle; “High Times,” a history of the influential magazine; “The Legend of Ganjasaurus Rex,” revisiting a 1987 sci-fi cult classic; and “Bong Voyage,” a profile of glass blower and bong designer Jason Harris, who became a target of the FBI’s Operation Pipe Dreams paraphernalia investigation.
One more “4/20” note: Tubi begins streaming a third season of the trippy animated comedy The Freak Brothers, about three 1960s-era stoners (Woody Harrelson, John Goodman and Pete Davidson) who awaken in the 2000s to an even stranger new world.
INSIDE MONDAY TV:
- The Neighborhood (8/7c, CBS): Calvin’s (Cedric the Entertainer) dog-sitting duties take a turn when someone else claims ownership of the pooch. Followed by DMV (8:30/7:30), where Colette (Harriet Dyer) hopes to forge workplace harmony between the driving examiners and the clerks.
- American Idol (8/7c, ABC): The Top 7 will be wishing upon a star as they perform classic Disney tunes for America’s vote, hoping to move on.
- FBI (9/8c, CBS): The team consults a profiler (The Good Wife‘s Zach Grenier) during a search for a single mother and son abducted in a state park. Followed by a new episode of CIA (9/8c), with Donal Logue (Gotham) guest-starring as a retired arms dealer brought in to help track a crashed satellite that contains nuclear material.
- The Rookie (10/9c, ABC): Nolan (Nathan Fillion) is not exactly thrilled to be assigned as bodyguard to the notorious Liam Glasser (Seth Gabel). Who would be?
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With Seth Meyers having new shows starting tonight, I wonder if he'll offer his take on that pic of "Dr." Jesus Trump!
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Scott Patterson does not look happy in that photo. I suppose for good reason...
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Is he the guy who used to be on Gilmore Gilrs? He's still wearing a ball cap, I see. Except this time it's not backward. :-p
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Yes. I’ve never seen the show* but apparently he and spokespeople for the show have given differing reasons for his departure from it. [*Sullivan’s Crossing, I mean.]
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FBI, and The Count of Monte Cristo. (Edited to add that last one.).
Re Watson (minor spoiler alert)..... I knew Ingrid would do something about that hateful, despicable man who seemed intent on destroying Sasha's peace of mind, not to mention life in general, but I didn't think she'd do THAT.
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Did you watch Tracker last night?
I figured out the psycho from his very first scene. Creepy ep, but effective.
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I watched most of Tracker. I confess I was watching something else on another channel at the same time, and thus missed the last 5-10 minutes. I saw the creepy guy, when he attacked Colter, but I don't know who he was... I know they were chasing after the photographer, I assume he ended up being the perp.
BTW, another cliche that this how does is how Colter often manages to link up with a member of law enforcement (in this case, the FBI), and that person is usually a female. Too convenient.
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The creepy guy was the hair dresser. He was questioned by Colter and the FBI agent. He acted very weird and looked guilty to me.
Just two main cast members this week (Colter and Randy).
Rennie was MIA.
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Ah, the hairdresser!! Yeah, he was pretty creepy. But for me he was also forgettable, since I didn't even recognize him when I saw him later on, lolol.
I'd been watching reruns of Elementary on another channel, and at that time was an episode that I didn't remember seeing during the original run, so that's the show I was tag-teaming with. Sadly, Elementary isn't on CBS(dot)com, only on Peacock, which I don't have.
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Elementary streams on Disney + and Hulu.
I get those at no extra cost via Verizon .
And I have Peacock at no extra charge via Comcast/Xfinity.
I don’t have Paramount + nor HBO MAX.
I have Amazon Prime (household has the shipping service )and Netflix (part of my cable package) but don’t pay extra for them.
I barely ever watch anything on these streamers . I guess Hulu and Disney + the most.
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