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Talk about being a comic to watch in 2020! Showtime today announced a straight-to-series order for Ziwe to star and executive produce her very own variety series. From the press release: “The series will feature interviews, sketches and more – including unscripted and unpredictable real-world rendezvous between everyday people and …
Daily Show correspondent Desi Lydic hosts a half-hour special in tribute to the late U.S. Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: Remembering RBG – A Nation Ugly Cries with Desi Lydic, premiering Friday, Oct. 30 at 11:00 p.m. ET/PT on Comedy Central. The special finds Lydic …
Stephen Colbert had a breakdown on live TV four years ago on election night as the returns turned from Clinton to Trump, so…double or nothing?! Colbert has agreed to host another live Election Night special for Showtime! STEPHEN COLBERT’S ELECTION NIGHT 2020: DEMOCRACY’S LAST STAND: BUILDING BACK AMERICA GREAT AGAIN …
Ticket requests remain available for a planned Comedy Central taping happening Oct. 27-28, 2020, in Malibu, Calif., for a new Jeff Dunham Thanksgiving comedy special. Dunham’s own website pops up an alert to fans who may have purchased tickets to other 2020 shows on his tour (most of which already …
Amazon Prime Video has ordered a year in review comedy special to be hosted by Phoebe Robinson, executive produced by The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel star Rachel Brosnahan, and written by Bess Kalb. Yearly Departed will premiere this winter. “I’m ready to put 2020 on fire like I’m barbecuing at a …
Ms. Pat put Bert Kreischer, Kaley Cuoco and Joel McHale to shame in an episode of Bert’s brand-new Netflix comedy series, The Cabin with Bert Kreischer, and now Ms. Pat will get to shine in her own sitcom! As reported first by Variety, BET+ has ordered a full 10-episode series …
Dangerfield’s, the iconic and legendary comedy club opened by the late Rodney Dangerfield in 1969 on New York City’s Upper East Side, has become the latest casualty of the COVID-19 pandemic. A new commercial real estate listing has appeared for the building at 1118 First Ave., asking $25,000 to rent …
A second season of EPIX’s Unprotected Sets kicks off this Friday night, with weekly half-hour episodes spotlighting stand-up comedians on the rise. Comedians Featured by Episode (with their hometowns in parenthesis): Episode 201: Calvin Evans (Chicago) & Hanna Dickinson (Washington, DC), premiering Friday, Oct. 16 at midnight Episode 202: Kira …
“Meet Del Close, the man with the keys to comedy. If only he can remember where he left them.” That’s the tagline on the poster for the new documentary, For Madmen Only: The Stories of Del Close, which Utopia Distribution has acquired the rights to, with plans for a 2021 …
Congrats to comedians Kevin Iso and Dan Perlman! Showtime has made a straight-to-series order for 10 episodes of their new half-hour comedy FLATBUSH MISDEMEANORS, in which the duo serve as both creators and stars, based on their webseries (since taken down from YouTube). The webseries, described as “dan and kevin, longtime …
