The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Byron Allen has another long-term syndicated series on his hands featuring stand-up comedians for your viewing pleasure in the game show, Funny You Should Ask. The game show received a two-year extension, taking it through a fourth season in 2020-2021 and 520 episodes. “Funny You Should Ask is growing rapidly in all …
Just because Trump never says “I’m sorry” doesn’t mean we can’t. Full Frontal with Samantha Bee is putting her correspondents’ mouths where TBS’s money is. Bee has sent four of her staffers — Ashley Nicole Black, Allana Harkin, Amy Hoggart, and Mike Rubens — on a worldwide apology tour. Nay, …
He could have been Gilligan, but Jerry Van Dyke wanted to be his own comedic self. That self, the younger banjo-playing happy-go-lucky, stammering brother of Dick Van Dyke, Jerry (six years Dick’s junior) managed to enjoy a lengthy TV career that started in the 1960s, peaked in the early 1990s …
Louis CK starred as the voice of a dog in the 2016 film, The Secret Life of Pets, but two other animated projects featuring the comedian’s voice have been recast or scrapped in the wake of his sexual harassment confession last fall. The Disney Channel confirmed that CK’s role of …
For decades, David Letterman presided over a late-night circus that asked celebrities and made jokes about the headlines of the day. For his next trick on Netflix, Letterman will sit down with people he admires and ask them timeless questions. My Next Guest Needs No Introduction with David Letterman will …
Netflix already has plans to premiere a new Ricky Gervais stand-up special in early 2018. Now comes word from the comedian that he’s got a second special ordered from the streaming giant. As you may have read, Netflix have bought two stand up specials. The first, Humanity, which I have …
Danny Breen made his mark in front of the camera as a cast member for eight seasons on HBO’s sketch comedy series, Not Necessarily The News. But Breen also won multiple Emmys for his work behind the scenes on a producer for Ellen and The Wayne Brady Show. An alum of …
Nick Cannon’s decision to release a stand-up comedy special this year may have cost him his hosting gig on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, but have Cannon front his MTV Wild ‘N Out crew, and they can still fill arenas. And on one night last week, two arenas in two different cities …
Rose Marie, a vaudeville star at 3 and hit radio singer at 5, who performed opening night at Bugsy Siegel’s Flamingto resort in Las Vegas and is best known now for her co-starring role as TV comedy writer Sally Rogers on The Dick Van Dyke Show, has died. She was …
Feral Audio, the podcast network founded by producer Dustin Marshall in 2012, is dissolving in the wake of abuse allegations against him by his ex-girlfriend. Musician Abby Weems posted this on her band Potty Mouth’s Twitter last week: https://twitter.com/pottymouthworld/status/943999966304911360 Marshall responded with a lengthy Tumblr post, in which he said …
