The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Congrats to Jim Gaffigan, who has become the first stand-up comedian to attract at least one billion streaming listens of his comedy tracks in the digital age! Gaffigan recently broke the billion-stream barrier on Pandora, the streaming audio app that’s now a subsidiary of SiriusXM. Pandora noted that no other …
For the first week of “Judge Cuts” on the 2020 season of America’s Got Talent, the contestants performed separately from the show’s four judges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That meant that most of them also could do something unusual this year, pre-taping their callback performances and turning them into …
Congratulations to the nominees for this year’s Emmy Awards! Here are the comedians and comedies in the running for Emmys, which will be handed out Sept. 20, 2020, on ABC. VARIETY SPECIAL (PRE-RECORDED) Dave Chappelle, Sticks & Stones (Netflix) Dave Chappelle, Mark Twain Prize ceremony (PBS) Hannah Gadsby, Douglas (Netflix) …
Still have no idea how many people are voting in the inaugural Tournament of Laughs on TBS, but they’ve announced the “Fortunate Four” competing for the title tonight… Natasha Leggero vs. Piff The Magic Dragon AND Chip Chipperson (Jim Norton) vs. Tim J. Dillon Leggero beat out Jeff Ross, while …
George Lopez hosted his own late-night talk show for a couple of years in the late 2000s for TBS, but never like this. And never looking like this, either. As Lopez explained guest-hosting for Jimmy Kimmel, his new blond hair was to change things up at age 59. Lopez first …
Bert Kreischer’s initial foray into touring comedy at drive-in movie joints was so successful, other comedians and drive-in operators have gotten into the act across America this summer. And Kreischer has set a second slate of summer dates. Here they are! AUG 10 MON — Starlite Drive-In @ 7:00pm, Wichita, KS …
We already knew Team Coco was expanding its comedy profile by producing stand-up specials for HBO Max. Now we know who and when. The first of the five previously announced specials will roll out in August on HBO Max, starting with Beth Stelling (who filmed hers in March) and James …
Nikki Glaser got out of her parents’ house and into the Jimmy Kimmel Live TV house to guest-host Tuesday night’s show. Glaser recalled filming an embarrassing episode of Who Wants to be a Millionaire? (also hosted by Kimmel), and deciding to spend the following week with her parents in St. …
Comedian and singer Bridget Everett will star in an HBO series inspired by her upbringing in Kansas. HBO today announced it had ordered Somebody Somewhere to series, with Everett starring and executive producing. Jay Duplass directed the pilot last year, and he and his brother Mark Duplass also will EP, …
And now it’s official. Montreal’s Just For Laughs won’t convene in person this summer, or this fall, or at all in 2020. Instead, JFL is going virtual due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Details to come, but an online edition of showcases, panels and more now will happen Oct. 9-10, 2020. …
