The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Congratulations to stand-up comedian John Mulaney, whose NBC pilot this year found a new life and a new home on FOX, as the latter network made a deal ordering Mulaney to series on Wednesday. It’s a semi-autobiographical multi-camera comedy, with at least six episodes to start, following Mulaney’s life as …
The former “King of Queens” is looking to regain his crown, or at least some title of TV sitcom nobility. Kevin James has signed a new TV development deal with Lionsgate. As first reported overnight by Deadline, that’s squarely so James can return to TV the way his fellow sitcom …
Monty Hoffman, one of the funny people gathered for a roundtable pep talk about comedy with Adam Sandler’s fictional alter-ego in Judd Apatow’s Funny People, has died. Hoffman was 60. About getting Hoffman at the table with Carol Leifer, George Wallace, Paul Reiser and Mark Schiff for a “Broadway Danny …
You may remember this next comedian from the 1990s. That’s not what Arsenio Hall said, exactly, when introducing stand-up comedian John Henton to his show on Monday night, but he might as well have, telling audience members they knew Henton from his roles on Living Single (1993-1998) and The Hughleys …
Today we’re treated to a newly animated bit from the posthumous Patrice O’Neal album, “Mr. P.” This is his stand-up bit, “Black Women Get You Refunds.” Of course it’s not safe for work. What did you expect? The clip arrives with news of a new digipak version of O’Neal’s other …
Want more Breaking Bad? So does Stephen Colbert. At the end of Monday night’s The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, Colbert jokingly revealed he had locked guest Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad‘s creator and series finale writer/director, in chains in a basement under the studio, forcing him to write additional storylines. …
It’s not HBO, it’s IFC. That’s the great news for Garfunkel & Oates, the musical-comedy duo of Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci, who now have a 10-episode series order from IFC. The series will debut in 2014. “We are huge fans of Riki and Kate; their humor is fresh and …
In case you didn’t stay up past your bedtime and the end of Saturday Night Live for the half-hour “concert” by Arcade Fire, then you missed out on a mini-movie directed by Roman Coppola and featuring several comedians that may have left you with the thought that “Here Comes The …
Did you know that Phil Palisoul won the 2013 Great American Comedy Festival competition this summer in Nebraska? Fun fact. Palisoul’s good fortunes continued into early fall, as he got to perform last week on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. His set includes one of the gosh darned funniest …
Kathleen Madigan learned more about her parents during a recent two-week visit with them in the Midwest, and she shared her findings on Friday night’s Late Show with David Letterman. For one thing, Madigan is amazed at the U.S. Postal Service for raising the price of stamps — but not for …
