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In the past year, Donald Glover has won Emmy Awards for his TV show (FX’s Atlanta) and now owns a Grammy Award for his musical moniker, Childish Gambino. He won the Grammy Award for Best Traditional R&B Performance on Sunday night for “Redbone,” and also performed during the telecast his song, “Terrified,” …
Conan O’Brien and Team Coco have found magic in the past few years by taking Conan out of the United States for a series of one-hour travelogue specials. They’re usually planned out in advance, with help from local celebrities or tie-ins to the show. Haiti is and was different. This …
During last night’s “Apology Race” episode of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Bee announced that she and her TBS crew will produce a one-hour special traveling to Puerto Rico. The Puerto Rico Full Frontal episode will air Wednesday, March 28, 2018.
Thirty years after it debuted and 20 years after it went off the air, Murphy Brown is returning to CBS. The Eye Network announced the revival Wednesday with a straight-back-to-series 13-episode order. Named one of the “25 Greatest TV Characters of All Time” by TV Guide, and singled out by Vice …
Artie Lange has returned to the airwaves on The AA Show with Anthony Cumia following his latest stint in rehab, and faces sentencing Feb. 23 from his arrest last fall. In a lengthy interview with Mandy Stadtmiller published this week in The Daily Beast, Lange opened up about struggling with …
Joe Recca, was a social worker, a black belt, and according to his website, “The Funniest Man in Clean Comedy!” Recca died last week in Baltimore. No further details were released. Born in Chicago and raised in Virginia Beach, Recca graduated from Norfolk State University in 1986 with a degree in …
Just a quarter of a century ago, you could see gay comedians on TV but never really knew they were gay. Then came Bob Smith. Smith was the first openly gay man to perform stand-up on The Tonight Show, as well as star in his own HBO half-hour comedy special. …
Oh, Grandma. Barry Lubin, who starred as frontman for the Big Apple Circus as Grandma the Clown from 1982-2012 and again in 2017, abruptly resigned after admitting to coercing a 16-year-old in 2004 to posing for pornographic pictures. Lubin resigned on Friday, and The New York Times reported the news …
We’re still learning more about what’s going on over at Funny or Die HQ, but suffice it to say, 2018 isn’t opening on a high note, as the company just announced additional layoffs. FoD closed the NYC office last year, and also eliminated jobs in San Mateo, consolidating much of …
What a huge day for comedians and comedy fans. Please welcome Academy Award nominees Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. Gordon, for writing a screenplay based on how they met and fell in love, in The Big Sick; Jordan Peele, for writing and directing one of 2017’s best movies and commentaries …
