The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Congrats to this year’s special crop of “New Faces” for Just For Laughs to entice the industry of managers, agents, network executives and casting agents to drool over and pay for industry passes to this week’s virtual hybrid festival, held in 2021 in Montreal, Los Angeles and New York City. …
This May, two similar yet tonally completely different sketch series premiered on HBO and HBO Max from the orbit of Saturday Night Live. And now we’ll be able to see what Michael Che and Sam Jay have to say with a second season! Today HBO Max announced the renewal of …
Look, we all want to be excited about Jon Stewart’s return to TV. Just like we want to be excited about the idea that anyone can blast off into space. It’s just…not everyone can get on that rocket ship. And Stewart’s promo sketch for The Problem with Jon Stewart, coming …
Comedy Central teased the return of Stephen Colbert on our screens the other night. Turns out it’s all to trumpet tha new talk show from radio personality Charlamagne Tha God, which Colbert will executive produce for Comedy Central. Tha God’s Honest Truth with Lenard ‘Charlamagne’ McKelvey, a weekly half hour …
Good news for friends, family and fans of Ashley Barnhill (plus Barnhill herself!), as the stand-up comedian is back onstage and on the mend, a year after a car struck her while jogging and nearly killed her. The accident happened May 21, 2020, as Barnhill was jogging along a Los …
Remember last year during the pandemic when Chicago’s comedy community asked The Second City and the iO to change their ways when it came to respecting racial diversity onstage and in the business, and the The Second City sacked its longtime CEO and then Charna Halpern suddenly shuttered the IO? …
Nick Kroll got some other comedians into the act when he guest-hosted Jimmy Kimmel Live at the end of last week, including Joe Mande as a “writer” and actual JKL writer Jesse Joyce as a camera guy. While Kimmel remains on vacation, some of his other subs this week have …
You might remember the boys from Lewberger when they made it to the finals of NBC’s Bring The Funny two summers ago. Well, they’re back for AGT, and for their first trick, they tricked host Terry Crews into joining them for a song?! Strange but true.
Mike Goodwin, a stand-up comedian and Army vet from South Carolina, auditioned this season for America’s Got Talent, and wowed the audience with his tales of trying to homeschool the kids during the pandemic with old-fashioned nursery rhymes.
Congrats and kudos to the comedy writers who put together that memorable ceremony for the 2020 Film Independent Spirit Awards, in those relatively halcyon days before we realized the COVID-19 pandemic was going to truly be pandemic — because they just won Emmy Awards over the weekend thanks to the …
