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Lilly Singh filmed her entire first season of her late-late-night talker for NBC in the last few months of 2019, which meant viewers kept seeing regular new episodes of A Little Late with Lilly Singh with studio audiences into May 2020! Now that that’s a wrap, NBC has announced a …
The National Comedy Center has assembled an all-star crew of comedians to pay tribute to the late great George Carlin tonight for his birthday. Carlin, born May 12, 1937, died in 2008. Coming together for a livestream of “Laughing Matters: Carlin’s Legacy,” count on Tim Allen, Judd Apatow, Lewis Black, …
Amy Schumer and her award-winning cookbook husband have cooked up a Food Network TV series from home during quarantine from the coronavirus pandemic. Amy Schumer Learns to Cook premiered Monday night, the first of eight episodes filmed inside the home the comedian shares with husband/chef Chris Fischer and their infant …
Did you hear the one about the Brooklyn Jew who married an Irish Catholic, performed with a legendary improvisational troupe, went on to have a successful multi-decade career as a comedy duo, give birth to more comedy legends, and also have a late-career resurgence on not one but two mega-hit …
Sunday night’s Feeding America Comedy Festival, broadcast by NBC and brought to you by Byron Allen’s Allen Media Group and Funny or Die, included a little bit of everything over the course of two hours. If you missed the telecast, you can watch it online via NBC, or Hulu. And …
Before Better Call Saul. Before Breaking Bad. Before Mr. Show with Bob and David, and even before Saturday Night Live, Bob Odenkirk worked at The Second City in Chicago. While there, he performed and helped write Chris Farley’s iconic motivational speaker character, Matt Foley. And even 30 years later, Odenkirk still tells Conan …
John Marshall, a comedian and writer who earned an Emmy nomination for writing on HBO’s The Chris Rock Show, and who executive-produced multiple annual ceremonies for the Writers Guild Awards, has died from cancer. Raised in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., Marshall studied playwriting at the University of Pennsylvania. The bio for his …
It was only a matter of time, wasn’t it? After a month of self-quarantining by comedians nationwide, stand-up Ted Alexandro has emerged as perhaps the first to put out a special from it. Alexandro edited together footage from his daily #TeddyGrams on Instagram Live into the 48-minute special, Stay At Home …
Tim Brooke-Taylor, beloved British comedian of stage and screen for more than 50 years, died today from the coronavirus. He was 79. Born in Buxton, he found his calling as well as his comedy community as part of the Cambridge University Footlights Club. Brooke-Taylor not only served as Footlights president in …
What’s Saturday Night Live if it’s not broadcasting from inside 30 Rock, and not even live TV? We found out this Saturday of Passover/Easter weekend. The resulting product of having SNL’s cast and crew working remotely revealed that stars are just like us when left to their own electronic devices. …
