The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Gary Larson, the cartoonist who retired his popular “The Far Side” strip on Jan. 1, 1995, has returned online with new comic strips. Credit the digital tablet age with reinvigorating Larson! As he wrote today in a letter accompanying the debut of new color toons, Larson said he bought a …
Conan O’Brien took his TBS show out of his home and into Largo at The Coronet Theater in West Hollywood on Monday, along with a skeleton crew and an “audience” of one, his assistant, Sona. Why? Let Conan explain it: “Well, a lot of theaters across the country are struggling …
Jimmy Kimmel Live! returns tonight after a two-week hiatus, but without Kimmel at the helm. Kimmel announced he was taking the summer off, after broadcasting monologues and conducting interviews at home under quarantine, to spend time with his family away from the camera. And he insisted the summer break is unrelated …
For more than 30 years, we’ve seen Wally Feresten emerge from time to time, from just off-camera to on camera, as the longtime cue card guy for Saturday Night Live (as well as NBC’s Late Night franchise). When TV went into quarantine in March, and resumed broadcasting from home, that …
TBS hasn’t been keeping up really up to date on voting from the first two weeks of head-to-head comedy videos for its first-ever Tournament of Laughs competition. But with barely an hour before broadcast of week three, obviously the comedians had to know if they were submitting new videos. And …
Tonight many of Boston’s old-school comedy legends will reunite online to perform and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Ding Ho, and in doing so, honor the late Barry Crimmins and raise money for his widow, Helen. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Eastern. Crimmins started live comedy shows at …
The COVID-19 pandemic sent Conan O’Brien home in March and his TBS Conan crew out of its Burbank studios on the Warner Bros. lot. In July, Team Coco is returning to a stage. Just not in Burbank. Instead, starting July 6, CONAN will start broadcasting from the historic Largo at the Coronet in …
Before Phil Lord and Chris Miller made the Lego movies, or sent Spiderman into the Spider-Verse, or wondered what life would be like for The Last Man on Earth, they co-created and animated Clone High. Now MTV, which originally aired Clone High in 2002-2003, has summoned Lord and Miller and …
This escalated quickly. Comedians only just realized a couple of months ago that they could adopt drive-in movie technology to perform live stand-up shows safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now Comedy Dynamics already has lined up four drive-in shows that the company will film for upcoming specials. It’s all part …
Is a new generation ready for Beavis and Butt-Head? It won’t be the MTV Generation, but whomever is watching Comedy Central these days. Comedy Central announced a deal with Mike Judge to reimagine Beavis and Butt-Head. The deal also calls for additional spin-offs and specials. From the press release: Launched …
