The Definitive Guide to Comedy
2019 will mark the 35th anniversary of This Is Spinal Tap, and the 25th anniversary of Reality Bites. Both cult classics will celebrate these milestones with retrospective screenings, panels, and even a concert as part of the 2019 Tribeca Film Festival, happening April 24-May 5. This Is Spinal Tap stars and creators Christopher Guest, Michael …
As animation and voiceover work becomes ever more commonplace among mainstream TV and movie fare, it’s more necessary to work out fair labor contracts. SAG-AFTRA members overwhelmingly voted earlier this month on a new deal. Results announced this week revealed 95 percent yes votes, 5 percent in the minority voting …
This week in TV development, we’re taking you around the dial and down the streaming services to get you all caught up. In alphabetical order by network… First off, ABC decided not to order its planned spinoff for The Middle, called Sue Sue in the City, which would star Sue Heck. The …
It’s fitting that the best and only part of this year’s Mark Twain Prize ceremony that you really need to watch is Julia Louis-Dreyfus herself accepting her award for 2018. The tributes made by friends and former colleagues are all sweet, if sometimes not all as funny as they aspired …
Jerry Seinfeld will continue to book regular neighborhood gigs in 2019, as the comedy star has announced an extension of his monthly residency at the Beacon Theatre on Manhattan’s Upper West Side. Seinfeld’s arrangement with The Beacon first began in January 2016 and concluded in December 2017 with 36 sold-out …
Full Frontal with Samantha Bee will put on its first holiday special, Christmas on I.C.E., for TBS this December. Bee will be joined at New York’s PlayStation Theater by special guests including skating superstar and Olympic medalist Adam Rippon. “I did not see her skate before I agreed to this,” said Rippon. …
After a sold-out run in London, Phoebe Waller-Bridge’s award-winning comedic play that inspired her hit Amazon comedy is coming to New York City for a five-week run in 2019. Fleabag will run from Feb. 28 through April 7, 2019, at the Soho Playhouse. But you don’t have to wait that …
Here’s an interesting development for fans/followers of Saturday Night Live. SNL’s Weekend Update is reproducing! More specifically, the people who write and produce Weekend Update are now also going to write and produce an animated series called Alien News Desk for Syfy, starring SNL vet Will Forte and current cast …
Take off, Jackhole. While Jimmy Kimmel will remain a partner in the studio he co-founded with Adam Carolla and Daniel Kellison before launching The Man Show way back in the day, the ABC late-night TV host has just started a new media company for all of his future ventures. It’s …
David “Deacon” Gray, the stand-up comedian who also nurtured a generation of Denver-area comedians as the new talent coordinator at Comedy Works since 2004, died over the weekend. He had cancer. Gray grew up in Oklahoma City, graduated high school in 1983 and started comedy on March 5, 1986, according to his …
