The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you want to see what happens when a porn site puts on a comedy show, now’s your chance! “Brazzers Presents: Comedy Spit Roast,” recorded in August at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles, is up for free on YouTube. So it’s almost safe for work? But no. Definitely NSFW. Bob …
IFC has revealed its slate of potential new comedies in development for the coming year. They include: Almost Asian, about a perpetual outsider, Katie (Katie Malia, The Mindy Project), and her desperate journey to find her identity as both a dancer and a mixed-raced millennial struggling in Los Angeles. As with the web-series …
SiriusXM today announced that Amy Phillips, a comedian who impersonates the Real Housewives of Bravo, will now host her own show, Reality Checked with Amy Phillips, every weekday on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy channel. Her show will include her own parodies, plus recaps and interviews with reality TV stars. “My passion is my job …
“I just don’t want to be her age, playing her,” Tyler Perry said of his famous alter-ego, Madea, who has starred in six major motion pictures, with a seventh on the way in 2019. Perry broke the news earlier this week doing press for his latest movie, Nobody’s Fool, which …
Finally, Bob Saget can say what he really wanted to about some of the video clips submitted back in the day for ABC’s America’s Funniest Home Videos. ABC has ordered Videos After Dark for 2019. Saget, who hosted the first eight seasons of AFHV, will host and executive produce Videos After …
The new fall TV season still hasn’t introduced all of its new series, and already we have two new straight-to-series orders from the broadcast networks this month. FOX says all systems go for Bless The Harts, an animated comedy featuring the voices of Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jillian Bell and …
The Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival may now be The Janelle James Comedy Festival, but Mirman himself will appear and perform as part of the hand-off of the annual comedy celebration in Park Slope and Gowanus, Brooklyn. The inaugural lineup joining James from Dec. 4-6, 2018, also includes David Cross, Cristela …
Oh, to be a leaning tower of pizza. Louis CK brought his unrepentant comeback to Massachusetts over the weekend. CK, who grew up in Newton, surprised the audience Saturday night in Saugus on Boston’s North Shore at Giggles, the comedy venue inside Prince Pizzeria run by Mike Clarke, brother of …
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has added Jaboukie Young-White as the latest correspondent to join “The World’s Fakest News Team” which includes Ronny Chieng, Michael Kosta, Desi Lydic, Dulcé Sloan and Roy Wood Jr. Young-White will make his debut on the show tonight, at 11 p.m. ET/PT with an in-studio …
The Impractical Jokers are getting a promotion? The guys who star in truTV’s most popular series will host a brand-new game show for sister “superstation” TBS. Misery Index, a new unscripted series inspired by the outrageously entertaining card game Sh*t Happens, will feature Brian “Q” Quinn, James “Murr” Murray, Joe Gatto and Sal Vulcano from The …
