Comedy Central orders two new Sack Lunch Bunch specials from John Mulaney
by John Mulaney premiered John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch, a parody of children’s TV shows, last year on Netflix. He’ll make two more specials …
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Just For Laughs Cancels JFL42 for 2020; Can Montreal Be Far Behind?
This shouldn’t shock anyone in 2020, but Just For Laughs pulled the plug on this fall’s JFL42 festival in Toronto. JFL announced the news Tuesday. …
Gary Larson returns to “The Far Side” with new comics
Gary Larson, the cartoonist who retired his popular “The Far Side” strip on Jan. 1, 1995, has returned online with new comic strips. Credit the …
Conan O’Brien, back at Largo in Los Angeles
Conan O’Brien took his TBS show out of his home and into Largo at The Coronet Theater in West Hollywood on Monday, along with a …
Anthony Anderson, Billy Eichner sub for Jimmy Kimmel as Jimmy Kimmel Live! hosts
Jimmy Kimmel Live! returns tonight after a two-week hiatus, but without Kimmel at the helm. Kimmel announced he was taking the summer off, after broadcasting monologues …
NBC’s Late-Night/SNL Cue Card Guy Making Customized Cards During Quarantine
For more than 30 years, we’ve seen Wally Feresten emerge from time to time, from just off-camera to on camera, as the longtime cue card …
Tournament of Laughs on TBS: Week 3 Matchups
TBS hasn’t been keeping up really up to date on voting from the first two weeks of head-to-head comedy videos for its first-ever Tournament of …
Old-School Boston Comedians Celebrate 40th Anniversary of Ding Ho to Honor Late Barry Crimmins and his widow
Tonight many of Boston’s old-school comedy legends will reunite online to perform and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Ding Ho, and in doing so, …
Conan O’Brien will begin broadcasting from Largo in West Hollywood
The COVID-19 pandemic sent Conan O’Brien home in March and his TBS Conan crew out of its Burbank studios on the Warner Bros. lot. In …
MTV Studios rebooting Clone High
Before Phil Lord and Chris Miller made the Lego movies, or sent Spiderman into the Spider-Verse, or wondered what life would be like for The …