CollegeHumor lays off 100+ employees as IAC pulls funding, hands reins over to longtime CH’er Sam Reich
by CollegeHumor launched online in 1999, begat an MTV show in 2009, and turning the corner from 2019 into 2020, now finds itself in a financial …
Month: January 2020
R.I.P. Buck Henry
One of our great comedic screenwriters has died. Buck Henry, born Henry Zuckerman in 1930 New York City, died Wednesday. He was 89. Though his …
Rachel Bloom and Fran Drescher adapting The Nanny into Broadway musical
This is really happening. Fran Drescher, who starred as The Nanny for 146 episodes from 1993-99, is developing the sitcom into a Broadway musical, co-writing the …
Leslie Jones to host primetime Supermarket Sweep game show for ABC
Just days before her first Netflix special drops, Leslie Jones has earned herself another gig in her post-SNL life: Game show host. Jones already has …
ABC is mounting a live TV rendition of Mel Brooks’s Young Frankenstein, the musical
ABC has announced it will debut its latest live musical event this fall with “Young Frankenstein Live!” produced by the legendary director, writer, actor, comedian, …
Not Robot Chicken’s 2020 Christmas special will air in primetime on FOX
It’s never to early to start thinking about Christmas, apparently. During their turn in the winter TCA meetings in Pasadena, FOX announced that at the …
Amanda Seales joins the cast of talk show The Real
Amanda Seales has joined Adrienne Houghton, Loni Love, Jeannie Mai and Tamera Mowry-Housley as a permanent co-host on their daytime talk show, The Real. Seales …
Meet the CBS Sketch Comedy Showcase cast of 2020
From the television network’s CBS Entertainment Diversity and Inclusion department… Here are the 20 young actors strutting their stuff for industry executives next week in …
How foreign comedians adapt to doing stand-up in English
Last year, Netflix kicked off 2019 with a global gauntlet of stand-up comedy, Comedians of the World. This year, Vulture asked some of our worldly …
Congrats to Ramy and Awkwafina on their Golden Globe Awards, and a look at the final Ricky Gervais monologue
Huge ups to Ramy Youssef and Awkwafina, who took home their first Golden Globe Awards over the weekend. Youssef won Best Actor in a TV …