The Definitive Guide to Comedy
America’s Got Talent has returned for another summer on NBC, this time with two new judges in Gabrielle Union and Julianne Hough joining Howie Mandel and Simon Cowell. How will this affect the comedians auditioning in 2019? So far, so good for Jackie Fabulous, who quit her job as a …
James Corden may be a late-night TV star in America, but later this year, he’s going back to where it all started for him on the telly. Corden announced that he and Ruth Jones have written a Gavin & Stacey special that gets the gang back together for a BBC …
Despite whatever vibes you thought Ellen DeGeneres was giving you in her Netflix comedy special, she is not leaving daytime television anytime soon. DeGeneres announced last week that she’d signed a contract extension for three more years of Ellen. That’ll keep her in syndicated daytime TV until at least 2022. …
Woody Allen had a four-picture deal with Amazon Studios. But after releasing two movies through Amazon (Cafe Society, Wonder Wheel) and a TV series that got panned, combined with renewed allegations against Allen by his children, Allen has found himself not only on the outs with Amazon, but also with …
Erin Foley’s first big show business credit wasn’t performing comedy, but rather playing a Rolling Stone magazine fact checker in the Cameron Crowe movie about his teen years, Almost Famous. So let’s get to the facts. Foley has performed on Conan, Arsenio Hall and starred in her own half-hour Comedy …
Chloé Hilliard was 6-foot-1 by the age of 12, so elementary school was rough, but pizza day made things easier, as she explained in her stand-up performance on Friday’s Tonight Show. Hilliard also joked about switching careers in adulthood and measuring up to her siblings. Roll the clip.
Janine Brito, a correspondent/writer on W. Kamau Bell’s former late-night talk show Totally Biased, totally returned to late-night TV on Thursday to perform on Late Night with Seth Meyers. She jokes about trying to survive the Trump years, but it’s a lot easier for her to enjoy recounting her awkwardness …
The Emmy-winning Funny or Die web series officially is going big-screen, via Netflix. Directed by Scott Aukerman, Between Two Ferns: The Movie will follow star Zach Galifianakis out of his makeshift talk-show studio and into the rest of the world. Why? Here’s the official description: Zach Galifianakis dreamed of becoming …
Amber Nash (“Pam Poovey”) and Lucky Yates (“Algernop Krieger”) will not only co-star in the upcoming 10th season of Archer on FXX, but also will talk about in three new chat shows airing after episodes this summer on Facebook Live. Archer After Hours will air immediately following the premiere of …
Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone grew up in the East Bay when the Oakland A’s ran the American League in the late 1980s. In a brand-new surprise Netflix special, The Lonely Island has dropped a half-hour collection of music videos all about that team, that time and that …
