The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you’re in or near Hollywood on Saturday (Oct. 1, 2016), then you can take advantage of a great yard sale that Jimmy Kimmel Live is throwing that includes pieces from the sets when the ABC late-night show went on the road to Austin, Texas, for SXSW, and more. You …
Funny or Die has assembled a star collection of stand-up comedians to barnstorm up and down California over the next month to encourage residents to register to vote in time for Election Day 2016. It’s called Jokes For Votes, and the tour, which kicked off Thursday night, includes a rotating lineup …
Roast Battle isn’t just for The Comedy Store or for Comedy Central. For the past year, the Jeff Ross-approved offshoot in New York City called RoastMasters has taken place regularly at The Stand in Gramercy (there’s also a regular Roast Battle at nearby New York Comedy Club helmed by co-founder …
This just in! Saturday Night Live is hyping the 42nd season premiere this Saturday with a video of its own “Trump vs. Hillary” debate, featuring Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump, and SNL’s own Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton. Trump previously had been portrayed by both Darrell Hammond and Taran Killam. …
Amazon has picked up all three of its primetime comedy pilots that went up for public review in August: The Tick, I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Johnson. That despite Amazon’s own programming chief describing his new half-hour pick-ups as only “sometimes even funny.” Such is the state of “comedy” …
It’s a great day and late-night for Iliza Shlesinger today. The former Last Comic Standing winner’s third Netflix stand-up special, Confirmed Kills, debuted in the morning, and by afternoon, the cable channel Freeform (formerly ABC Family) announced it’d try to develop a late-night TV show for her. “A late-night show …
The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, which began as a weekly stand-up showcase in 2010 the back of Hollywood’s Meltdown Comics and begat three seasons on Comedy Central, will be ending its six-year run next month, the stars and producers announced today. Their final live show will happen Wednesday, Oct. …
Showtime waited to roll the dice on a second season, but why not gamble on Andrew Dice Clay once more? Showtime announced today it’ll order up seven more episodes of DICE, starring Clay as a version of himself living and working in Las Vegas, with Natasha Leggero playing his girlfriend …
Jermaine Fowler will star in primetime for CBS come 2017, now that the Eye Network has ordered his Superior Donuts to series for midseason. CBS had recast and reshot the pilot over the summer after passing on it for this fall. Judd Hirsch and Katey Sagal now will co-star with …
Just a month before Election Day 2016, the Alamo Drafthouse movie chain is giving Idiocracy a bigger 10-year anniversary screening party than the movie’s studio did when it first came out in 2006. As they put it: Ten years ago, satirist Mike Judge told of an impossible future in which …
