The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Samantha Bee will re-emerge from her own spring break at TBS knowing full well that Full Frontal has a full year of Monday nights to look forward to. TBS announced today it had ordered 26 additional weekly episodes of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, for a total of 39 episodes in 2016. …
Bill Dawes has played Paul Hornung and Mickey Mantle in separate Broadway productions, and recently wrapped a run as famed Russian ballet dancer Rudolf Nureyev. He plays a struggling stand-up comedian trying to pitch a TV series in his latest role, the independent movie Before The Sun Explodes, which premiered …
The USA network not only announced that Freddie Prinze Jr. will host the upcoming first season of Dana Carvey’s televised comedy showcase showdown, First Impressions, but also revealed who’ll be competing to show off their best celebrity impersonations this May. They include at least two comedians who have made the …
Fallon favorite Nate Bargatze made his fourth stand-up comedy appearance on The Tonight Show on Friday night, and he’s no April Fool. Although Bargatze did admit he’s a fan of Trump. But in the way that anyone can be sold on a late-night infomercial kind of way, kind of fan. …
Katt Williams posted bail again Thursday. Once more, the comedian found himself in jail. Once more, a judge looked at the comedian in his handcuffs and his jail jumpsuit and wondered whether to let him out of her custody. “This was not a popular decision to have you released on bond,” …
Timing be damned, because the spaceship of fools known as MST3K is getting the whole gang back together — including both previous hosts Joel Hodgson and Michael J. Nelson and new host Jonah Ray — for a very special one-night-only reunion for RiffTrax. Set for the reunion, broadcast to movie …
Can we talk? There already just was and still is a great documentary, made just six years ago, that reminds us what it meant to be Joan Rivers. A Piece of Work. What Rivers meant to comedians and all of us, though, that’s the point of Exit Laughing, the first …
The story of the Del Close Marathon is the story of Del Close. And the story of Close is ultimately the story of how improvisation grew from an art form used for acting rehearsals into an actual entertainment event in itself, and how Close spurred its expansion through his disciples …
