The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Every TV game show that once was old, now is new again at ABC. The broadcast network today announced it’d ordered 10 episodes of a new edition for The Gong Show, which last aired in syndication in 1989 (with a Comedy Central version in 2008). Over the past year, ABC has found …
For all of the talk about cast changes, stunt casting and the word that Saturday Night Live would have fewer ad time this year, the 42nd season premiere felt a bit underwhelming, didn’t it? That’s not to take anything away from the three new cast members. Mikey Day (promoted from …
Nikki Glaser doesn’t yet have “baby fever,” as she joked on Friday’s Tonight Show, although the host of Comedy Central’s “Not Safe” is about to become an aunt. Glaser wondered what she should do when her boyfriend gives her the “silent treatment,” and whether allowing other people into their relationship …
Naomi Ekperigin is at a crossroads, ladies and gentlemen. And not because she writes for Broad City. As Ekperigin explained in her stand-up set on Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, her real issue lies with her nutrition. If only her TV watching could help her crack the case on …
This just in! Saturday Night Live is hyping the 42nd season premiere this Saturday with a video of its own “Trump vs. Hillary” debate, featuring Alec Baldwin as Donald Trump, and SNL’s own Kate McKinnon as Hillary Clinton. Trump previously had been portrayed by both Darrell Hammond and Taran Killam. …
Mike Recine returned to Conan on Tuesday’s episode, joking about guys who try to order food in Spanish without knowing how to speak Spanish, guys who listen to talking dogs, and wondering whether there really is such a thing as the “worst pedophile.” Roll the clip!
Amazon has picked up all three of its primetime comedy pilots that went up for public review in August: The Tick, I Love Dick and Jean-Claude Van Johnson. That despite Amazon’s own programming chief describing his new half-hour pick-ups as only “sometimes even funny.” Such is the state of “comedy” …
Emma Willmann scored a great slot for her TV debut as a stand-up comedian, performing on a special live edition of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert following the first presidential debate between Hillary Clinton and Donald Trump. Willmann made fun of her name, which if she says it too …
It’s a great day and late-night for Iliza Shlesinger today. The former Last Comic Standing winner’s third Netflix stand-up special, Confirmed Kills, debuted in the morning, and by afternoon, the cable channel Freeform (formerly ABC Family) announced it’d try to develop a late-night TV show for her. “A late-night show …
Showtime waited to roll the dice on a second season, but why not gamble on Andrew Dice Clay once more? Showtime announced today it’ll order up seven more episodes of DICE, starring Clay as a version of himself living and working in Las Vegas, with Natasha Leggero playing his girlfriend …
