Team Coco celebrates 20 Years of Conan #Conan20
by We first saw Conan O’Brien as a bona fide late-night TV talk-show host on NBC in September 1993. It’s never too late to celebrate a …
Month: October 2013
Movies / TV / Uncategorized
It’s not HBO (any longer), it’s a movie, an Entourage movie
Eight seasons on HBO were not enough for the man-boys of Entourage. Director Doug Ellin and cast member Jerry Ferrara (“Turtle”) announced the news Monday …
Craig Ferguson to host syndicated game show “Celebrity Name Game” based on Identity Crisis board game
FremantleMedia North America and Debmar-Mercury are selling TV stations and networks on a new syndicated game show, hosted by Craig Ferguson and based on the …
ABC apologizes for Jimmy Kimmel Live “joke” about killing all Chinese people to erase U.S. debt
ABC has apologized for a taped bit that aired earlier this month on Jimmy Kimmel Live and had children suggesting and then debating whether to …
Deleted scene: Taran Killam’s “Don’t Smash My Pumpkin” music video for SNL
Just in time, but also cut for time, here’s a scene that didn’t make it into last weekend’s Saturday Night Live with Edward Norton. It’s …
Watch the NYTVF-winning pilot for “RE:VERSE” and see who earned TV development deals at the 2013 fest
Re:Verse, a comedy pilot created by Stephen Soroka and Nic Rad and starring Maria Krovatin as a 22-year-old who quits law school and pursues multiple …
SNL #39.4 RECAP: Host Edward Norton, musical guest Janelle Monae
Sometimes a show gets defensive before you have a chance to criticize it accurately, and pulls out a series of unnecessary stops to make you …
David Spade to record first stand-up comedy special in 15 years, for Comedy Central
Comedy Central confirmed today that David Spade will be recording his a new one-hour stand-up comedy special this year — Spade’s first in 15 years. …
Follow the money: Nore Davis in The New Yorker on making $ as an aspiring stand-up in the city
The New Yorker has published an interesting short film and interview with stand-up comedian Nore Davis about the economics of trying to make it as a …
The night Richard Pryor announced his return to stand-up, interviewed by Steve Martin on The Tonight Show (1978)
You know, kids, there was a time not so long ago when comedians weren’t always talking to each other on microphones and sharing everything about …