Comics to Watch 2017: Here’s who’s “Up Next” at Comedy Central’s Colossal Clusterfest
by Comedy Central’s “Comics to Watch” showcases, which had featured up-and-coming stand-ups in recent years at the New York Comedy Festival, is now rebranded as “Up …
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Kumail Nanjiani delivers commencement address at alma mater Grinnell College for Class of 2017
Kumail Nanjiani, who graduated from Grinnell College in 2001, returned 16 years later to deliver the commencement address at his alma mater. Nanjiani joked about …
Impractical Jokers reruns going into syndication for Fall 2017
Joe, Murr, Q and Sal already have five-and-a-half seasons of embarrassing each other for fun and profit on truTV’s Impractical Jokers, with the sixth-season midseason …
Ellen DeGeneres will film a stand-up special for Netflix, her first in 14 years
Ellen DeGeneres has received a Presidential Medal of Freedom and hosted the Oscars, all while reigning over daytime TV as host of Ellen, but the …
Jon Stewart and HBO scuttle animated satire project
After Jon Stewart left The Daily Show in the summer of 2015, much was made of his four-year contract with HBO he signed a few …
Comedy Central extends Anthony Atamanuik’s Trump satire, The President Show, through the summer
Seven more weeks! Seven more weeks! Comedy Central has extended the inaugural season of The President Show for an additional seven episodes, Comedy Central President …
WHYY launching new podcast, “Cosby Unraveled”
The only podcast genre more popular than comedians talking comedy is journalists talking true crime. So Cosby Unraveled probably will break all of the previous …
Laughable podcast app celebrates version 2.0 with an ‘Artists Collective’ live showcase
As the comedy boom enters its final explosive phases, more and more entrepreneurs are figuring out how to make the most out of it, if …
Saturday Night Live bids fond farewell to Bobby Moynihan, Vanessa Bayer and Sasheer Zamata
After the final goodbyes at the end of the 42nd season finale of Saturday Night Live, after the NBC cameras turned off, the cast and …
FOX to test out comedian-based daytime talk show “Punchline” during summer 2017
Daytime TV already has hourlong talk shows hosted by Ellen Degeneres and Steve Harvey, and panel discussions including the likes of Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, …