The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Byron Allen has another syndicated show featuring stand-up comedians hitting a TV station near you this fall, and Funny You Should Ask, it’s a game show. Jon Kelley, former host/correspondent on entertainment tabloid show Extra, will host the half-hour game show, which has cleared more than 95 percent of America’s …
Jordan Klepper is graduating from The Daily Show to his own late-night series on Comedy Central this fall. But first! Jordan Klepper Solves Guns! The network is giving Klepper an hour special at 11 p.m. Sunday, June 10, 2017, to explore gun rights and legislation in his own comedy journalistic …
CBS started handing out series orders to its pilot contenders today, and among them is the new sitcom, Me, Myself & I, which stars current Saturday Night Live cast member Bobby Moynihan. Of course, CBS will lay out its planned Fall 2017 and Midseason 2018 schedules next week during the …
As Steve Harvey wraps up the fifth season of his syndicated daytime talk show, he’s moving not only to a new production company but also a new location, taking his show from Chicago to Los Angeles. So now one of his Chicago staffers has leaked a memo Harvey sent to …
You’ve seen Laff Mobb re-enact stand-up comedy bits on YouTube and overnight on truTV’s Late Night Snack, and this fall, you’ll get to see them in full half-hour doses. truTV announced a 12-episode order this fall of Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks, along with a new talk show hosted by Amy …
“I’m Muslim. Like from the news,” jokes Ramy Youssef, who made his network TV debut on Thursday night’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Youssef also joked about how your own individual day can be pretty OK, even if the rest of the world seems to be crumbling around you; how …
Mark Normand has finally hit the big time, and no, I’m not merely talking about how his first stand-up hour premieres tonight on Comedy Central. I’m talking about how he’s wearing a suit on the TV, of course! Watch Normand make fun of himself and his foibles as he navigates …
Frankie Shaw’s short film, SMILF, won the jury award at the Sundance Film Festival a couple of years ago and garnered further interest from Showtime. The pay-cable network announced it’s fully invested now in SMILF, ordering up 10 episodes of a half-hour comedy series partially based on Shaw’s own life …
You’ve come to know and love the voice of Dan Mintz as Tina on Bob’s Burgers. But before co-starring in that FOX animated sitcom, Mintz was a joke writer and joke teller. Here he is to remind you, with four minutes of one-liners performed on Wednesday’s Late Night with Seth …
Stephen Colbert got the gang back together again, that gang being his former co-workers on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, circa 2005, before Colbert left their ranks. So Samantha Bee, John Oliver, Ed Helms and Rob Corddry joined Stewart and Colbert for a flashback sketch and many good-time panel …
