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To kick off this year’s crop of half-hour stand-up specials, which premiere on Friday, Oct. 18, 2019, Comedy Central will stream 24 hours of stand-up from the previous two decades of half-hours live on its YouTube channel. In all, the 24-hour live stream will feature a curated playlist of over …
Will Ferrell, who recently launched his own podcast under the guise of Anchorman’s Ron Burgundy, is now ready to assemble his own comedy podcast team. Ferrell announced a new deal with iHeartMedia to launch Big Money Players Network. “The iHeartPodcast Network has been such a pleasure to work with. I love …
Craig Ferguson, who previously hosted Celebrity Name Game from 2014-2017, is back with another game show hosting gig. The Hustler will reunite Ferguson with ABC, where he got his big break with a supporting role on The Drew Carey Show. The Hustler will begin production later this fall, with an …
A character Jason Sudeikis created years ago for NBC Sports is coming out of retirement, but this time playing for Apple TV+. Ted Lasso finds Sudeikis, an American football coach, trying to lead English football clubs. He’s writing the Apple TV+ series with Bill Lawrence. They’re executive producing it for …
HBO’s comedy special Gary Gulman: The Great Depresh will be available on HBO.com and HBO’s YouTube channel in full for free through Saturday, Oct. 12. They’re doing so as part of HBO’s partnership with It’s OK to recognize the importance of destigmatizing mental health issues. Gulman’s new special premiered last Saturday and it’s great! You can read my …
To mark World Mental Health Day yesterday, Comedy Central, in partnership with Mental Health First Aid (MHFA), a program of the National Council for Behavioral Health, premiered its first Be The Difference public service announcement (PSA) featuring Jeff Ross, Matteo Lane and Yamaneika Saunders. Comedy Central says this is the first step toward a long-term social impact …
Blind Date, which first debuted in 1999 and ran for 10 syndicated seasons and 1440 episodes, is coming back, this time on Bravo. And this time, hosted by stand-up comedian Nikki Glaser. The Blind Date reboot on Bravo premieres Nov. 18, 2019, at 11:30 p.m. A nod to the original …
HBO Max announced Search Party will move from TBS to the new streaming platform (both owned by WarnerMedia) when it launches in spring 2020. From the press release: The dark comedy about a group of privileged, self-absorbed twenty-somethings covering up a murder starring Alia Shawkat, Meredith Hagner, Brandon Micheal Hall, John Early and John Reynolds aired on TBS for …
Comedy Central is giving a one-hour stand-up special to another one of its correspondents from The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Michael Kosta will tape his upcoming performances on Nov. 15 in Detroit for broadcast in summer 2020. Tickets are free, available via www.tblus.com/michaelk, for the shows at Detroit’s Gem Theatre. …
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee has announced it is re-entering the mobile political game landscape. Following up on its moderately successful “This Is Not A Game: The Game” of 2018, the team at Full Frontal has created the Full Frontal’$ Totally Unrigged Primary app. “Does making a second game make me a game…mogul?” asked Bee. “Probably. …
