Six Degrees – December Catch Up

Welcome to the ‘Six Degrees Catch Up Edition’ featuring all the latest happenings and goings on in the world of ‘Daily Show’ and ‘Colbert Report’ staff and ‘Friends of the Show’.

In this month’s catch up we have interviews with Amy Sedaris and Larry Wilmore, film news from Steve Carell, David Sedaris’ 2015 book tour schedule, a Christmas play from Peter Gwinn and Bobby Mort, and new literature from Dan McCoy, Elliott Kalan and Frank Lesser.

The Colbert Report

• Former writers, Bobby Mort and Peter Gwinn’s ‘Twist Your Dickens’ will play at the Goodman Theatre from December 5, 2014 – January 3, 2015.

The Daily Show

• Dan McCoy and Elliott Kalan, along with their ‘Flop House’ podcast co-host, have teamed up to write the new ‘Flash Gordon Holiday Special‘ comic book, out December 17th, 2014.

• Larry Wilmore talks to TV writer James Poniewozik about ‘The Nightly Show’ and being a “passionate centrist” in TIME Magazines December 29/January 5 issue.

• Larry Wilmore will host the ’67th Annual Writers Guild Awards’ at the Edison Ballroom in New York City on February 14th, 2015.

• Amy Sedaris talks to FlavorWire about guest starring on ‘Broad City’, Tinder, and her new movie ‘Goodbye to All That’.

• David Sedaris has announced the dates for his upcoming book tour of the United States and United Kingdom.

• Steve Carell is the latest celebrity to be hit by the Sony hacking scandal. After the chaos surrounding the release, cancellation and eventual release of Seth Rogen and James Franco’s ‘The Interview’, it has been announced that the film adaptation of cartoonist Guy Delisle’s nonfiction comic book “Pyongyang: A Journey in North Korea”, which was to star Carell as Delisle, has been scrapped after Fox, the films distributer, refused to distribute it under any circumstances. In his article for Vulture, Abraham Riesman notes that “Hollywood has never made a great movie about North Korea […] Pyongyang could have been a work of art. But now it’s lost to us forever.”