The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Soon the world will know the greatness of New Zealand’s Rose Matafeo. HBO Max and BBC Three will partner up to broadcast Matafeo’s next TV project, Starstruck, which she created, writes and will star. Starstruck will follow twenty-something Rose (Matafeo), a millennial in London, juggling two dead-end jobs and navigating the …
Nathan Fielder, whose writing team won this year at the WGA Awards for comedy/variety sketch series for the final season of Comedy Central’s Nathan For You, is heading to HBO. Fielder’s HBO deal includes starring in an upcoming comedy pilot, as well as executive producing an upcoming series, How To…With …
Emmy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated actor and comedian Denis Leary (Rescue Me, Animal Kingdom) will star in FOX’s upcoming limited series, A MOODY CHRISTMAS, scheduled to air this December on FOX. In the single-camera, holiday-themed event comedy, Leary will play Sean Moody, Sr., the beloved patriarch of the Moodys, a …
Robert De Niro, Blake Griffin, Caitlyn Jenner, Joel McHale, Debra Messing, Chris Redd, and Jeff Ross will join Roast Master Sean Hayes on the dais for the Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin. It tapes Sept. 7 at the Saban Theatre in Los Angeles and will premiere on Sunday, Sept. 15 at …
On Wednesday nights this month, Comedy Central and SiriusXM are trying out a new half-hour interactive comedy program, The Trevor Moore Show, fronted by Moore. The premise? Moore, comedians, experts, internet folk heroes and the general public tackle some of the world’s most pressing, hot button issues, which Trevor must resolve …
Stand-up comedian Mike Reynolds has died at the age of 60. Born Dec. 23, 1958, this Bayside Queens native New Yorker started in stand-up comedy while still in high school, becoming a regular at the Comic Strip on Manhattan’s Upper East Side by 1977. You can see him in this …
The way TV viewing has shifted in my lifetime, I’m surprised more broadcast networks aren’t putting their best shows on Sunday nights. That said, there’s more to the story of NBC announcing five special Sunday night episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this fall. First, the facts. Fallon’s …
Fresh off the debut of its weekly docuseries partnership with The New York Times, The Weekly, FX has announced five more docs coming to the cable network in the months ahead. One of them is about women in comedy. Here’s the official description from FX: WOMEN IN COMEDY For decades …
ABC is doing everything it can to keep Jimmy Kimmel happy in 2019. First, the network is letting Kimmel go “home” to Brooklyn once more this October during the week of Oct. 21, 2019, broadcasting from the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House. Kimmel has broadcast from Brooklyn …
Your eyes have not deceived you. Season three of Atlanta has not returned to FX in 2019 like the cable TV network told you it would. But fear not! At the summer TCAs, the FX brass announced they’d reached a deal with Atlanta creator Donald Glover to produce a fourth …
