Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson ink deal with Comedy Central for post-Broad City future
by Broad City will end in 2019 with its fifth and final season, but Comedy Central wants you to know it’ll remain in business with Broad …
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Mike Vecchione on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
The millennial crowd at Friday’s taping of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon loved Mike Vecchione’s stand-up comedy performance, and not just because he’s 100 …
Most of the living cast of SCTV reuniting for Netflix special directed by Martin Scorcese
The five surviving members of SCTV’s original cast, plus Martin Short, will reunite for a Netflix special filming this spring in the United States and …
Amazon Studios has stopped accepting your TV and movie pitches
If you’re reading this, you’re already too late to submit your script or concept idea to Amazon Studios. Amazon decided to put a stop to …
Carol Burnett to receive first-ever Peabody Career Achievement Award
The Peabody Awards, considered the highest honor in television (and based in the University of Georgia’s journalism and mass communication program), have decided to award …
JC Currais on Conan
JC Currais became the latest participant of last year’s Comics to Watch showcase during the NY Comedy Festival to get a spot on Conan. If …
Andy Woodhull on The Late Late Show with James Corden
Andy Woodhull is a stepfather to two teenage daughters, and as he explained in this performance on Wednesday’s Late Late Show with James Corden, he …
R.I.P. Mitzi Shore, legendary owner of The Comedy Store (1930-2018)
Mitzi Shore, the legendary owner of The Comedy Store who took over the comedy club when she divorced Sammy Shore in 1974, mother of Pauly …
Lily Tomlin, Amy Schumer, and SNL’s original cast/writers to headline 2018 Lucille Ball Comedy Fest and the opening of the National Comedy Center
Years in the making, the National Comedy Center will celebrate its grand opening this August in Jamestown, New York — just time for the annual …
Comedy Central to roast Bruce Willis in summer 2018
It has been a couple of years since the most recent Comedy Central Roast (Rob Lowe, 2016, in case you had forgotten). Well, time’s up. …