The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A night after Jimmy Kimmel delivered a heartfelt monologue about the emergency surgeries required for his newborn baby boy with wife (and head writer) Molly McNearney, he took Tuesday night off from work. So Will Arnett temporarily took the reins of Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC. As Arnett told the …
At 94, comedy legend Norman Lear is just now joining the podcast fray with his own talk show, “All of the Above,” which debuted today on PodcastOne. Lear’s first episode welcomed guest Amy Poehler to talk about her upcoming movie with Will Ferrell, The House. Paul Hipp not only wrote …
Baroness von Sketch Show has won multiple Canadian Screen Awards, and now their sketch comedy will cross the border to America thanks to IFC. IFC announced it has acquired the CBC sketch comedy series and will air 13 episodes of the first two seasons later this summer. Carolyn Taylor, Meredith MacNeill, …
Hasan Minhaj faced an uphill task taking on the keynote speech at the 2017 White House Correspondents Association dinner, the first in 36 years to not feature the sitting president (and that, in 1981, was because President Reagan had been shot in an assassination attempt). No Trump. No Trump lackeys …
Whether this becomes a new annual ritual or not, Samantha Bee and her Full Frontal team from TBS put on a heckuva show Saturday night in Washington, D.C., with their first “Not the White House Correspondents Dinner” special. Among the top highlights: A clip reel of comedians taking digs at …
Everything old can be new again in this era of Too Much TV. Re-enter Roseanne. The hit ABC sitcom, which aired 222 episodes from 1988 to 1997 and peaked at the top of the ratings in its second of nine seasons, is calling for a full reunion (no word on …
British comedy legend Tommy Maitland will host ABC’s revival of The Gong Show this summer. So says the press release. And yet. You’d think you would have heard of Tommy Maitland, or followed him on Twitter or seen his Facebook fan page if he were a true legend of comedy. …
BET may have leaked word early about the network’s upcoming new late-night talk show hosted by former Nightly Show head writer/correspondent Robin Thede (and executive produced by Chris Rock), but BET actually has a whole slate of late-night programming coming later in 2017. Among the offerings: A variety show fronted …
Singer. Songwriter. Comedian. Rabbi. Cantor. Gary Shapiro touched many lives in and around Los Angeles in ways a typical comedian never did. Shapiro died unexpectedly on Thursday. More details on that as they become available. Shapiro was born July 1, 1964. He was only 52. Memorial services will be held …
BET hasn’t had a full-fledged late-night talk show since Mo’Nique went nightly back in 2009-2011. The network is diving back in this fall with Robin Thede’s The Rundown. BET is giving The Rundown an initial 24-week order; it’ll air weekly for a half-hour, with a launch date and time to be …
