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Craig Ferguson will start broadcasting a weeknight talk show once again. Only this time he’ll be in primetime. And on satellite radio! Broadcast live from Los Angeles, in a studio SiriusXM built in Ferguson’s home, “The Craig Ferguson Show” will debut on Comedy Greats channel 94 starting Monday, Feb. 27, with …
Opie and Anthony are no more as a radio duo, or as a team with Jim Norton, and so SiriusXM is moving forward by officially rebranding the Opie Radio channel on its satellite radio service (ch. 103/206) as Faction Talk. The name change, known about since late November, is effective …
SiriusXM will broadcast a newly updated audio documentary Friday about the late comedy legend Redd Foxx, on what would have been his birthday. Foxx recorded several “party albums” of stand-up long before TV viewers came to love him as the star of Sanford and Son. Foxx died from a heart …
Amy Schumer scored big with Grammy nominations in two categories this morning — not only for Best Comedy Album for the audio version of her HBO special, Live at the Apollo, but also in Best Spoken Word Album for her narration of her memoir, The Girl With The Lower Back …
Wyatt Cenac not only celebrated the fourth anniversary of his weekly comedy showcase this Monday night, but recorded a 17-minute performance at his Night Train show in Brooklyn, which he has released now as a free EP for anyone who subscribes to his email newsletter. Night Train presents Wyatt Cenac: …
Previously only available as an exclusive to subscribers of Howl, the WTF with Marc Maron podcast has just made its special roundup episode, “Lorne Stories,” available to everyone else, too. The two-hour collection, “Lorne Stories,” features experiences with Saturday Night Live creator and guru Lorne Michaels, as told to Marc …
Greg Fitzsimmons first met Kevin Meaney when Fitzsimmons was just a kid, and Meaney was just a teenaged waiter at the country club the Fitzsimmons belonged to in Westchester County. After Meaney died suddenly on Friday at the age of 60, Fitzsimmons paid tribute to his lifelong friend and mentor …
With less than a month until the 2016 presidential election, SiriusXM will rebrand one of its comedy channels as “F* Politics” for the week to help you cope with the shockingly grotesque turn in our political discourse. Starting Monday (Oct. 17, 2016), Comedy Greats (ch. 94) will become “F* Politics” with a …
After a week of melodramatic contract negotiations that played out both over social media and the satellite radio airwaves, SiriusXM’s Opie Radio channel remains intact — even if it no longer includes a morning time slot for the man who had occupied it since the channel first debuted on XM …
Anjelah Johnson’s newest stand-up comedy album, Not Fancy, will go on sale wherever you buy albums online on Oct. 7, 2016, and then two weeks later as a physical CD. Johnson filmed the special in Anaheim (and you can see it still exclusively on Netflix), where she joked about learning Spanish, …
