Review: Pete Holmes, “Faces and Sounds” on HBO
by If you haven’t yet watched the new Pete Holmes stand-up hour, Faces and Sounds, it debuted Saturday night on HBO and delivers — and not …
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Here are your comedy writers nominated for 2017 WGA Awards
Congrats to my friends and all of the other comedy writers nominated today for the 2017 Writers Guild Association (WGA) Awards. Awards will be handed …
Jimmy Kimmel to host 2017 Academy Awards live on ABC
For years, Jimmy Kimmel has hosted a live edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Oscars, cashing in on all of the Academy Award nominees …
Comedian Mo Amer’s TransAtlantic flight with Eric Trump
“Sometimes God just sends you the material.” — Mo Amer How stand-up comedian Mo Amer initially described his encounter with Eric Trump to his Facebook …
Patton Oswalt’s GQ essay on suddenly becoming a single parent
The December issue of GQ includes its annual “Men of the Year” profiles, and among them, this essay from Patton Oswalt on becoming both a …
TBS orders animated series, “Final Space,” set for launch in 2018
This just in. TBS has ordered up a new animated comedy series, Final Space, created by Olan Rogers and produced by Conan O’Brien Conaco with …
The comedians and comedy behind chatbots such as Amazon’s Alexa Echo and Google Home Assistant
Perhaps your friends already have shown you this video from the past month of someone activating both an Amazon Echo and a Google Home device, …
Matt Ruby: “What I’ve Learned From 10 Years of Doing Stand-Up Comedy”
Longtime reader, first-time contributor. Matt Ruby was one of the first people in New York City to come up to me and email me to …
truTV rebrands, new tagline for 2017: “Funny Because It’s tru”
Plenty of cable channels/networks have rebranded and renamed themselves since first launching in the 1980s or 1990s, and now truTV has fully embraced its newer …
Walmart driver pleads guilty to avoid jail time in crash that killed Jimmy Mack, injured Tracy Morgan and Ardie Fuqua
Kevin Roper, the 37-year-old Walmart truck driver who plowed into the limousine carrying Tracy Morgan and his entourage — killing comedian James “Jimmy Mack” MacNair …