The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jermaine Fowler will star in primetime for CBS come 2017, now that the Eye Network has ordered his Superior Donuts to series for midseason. CBS had recast and reshot the pilot over the summer after passing on it for this fall. Judd Hirsch and Katey Sagal now will co-star with …
Comedy Central may no longer have the Emmy-winning Key & Peele, but the cable network will have Kasher and Leggero both on display in 2017. Comedy Central announced a series order today for Problematic with Moshe Kasher, a weekly talk show that will debut in 2017. Kasher’s wife, Natasha Leggero, …
Nick Cody may be from Australia, but he recognizes a universal truth: Small towns are small because nobody wants to live there. Just look at Los Angeles, Cody said on the stage in Burbank for Tuesday’s Conan. Cody is engaged, and neither his fiancee’s fit and healthy lifestyle tips nor …
The 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards, handed out Sunday night live on ABC, saved its biggest prizes for repeat winners but had plenty of opportunities to reward first-timers in the first half-hour of the telecast. In just the first few categories: Louie Anderson won his first Emmy Award, in the supporting …
Becoming a New Yorker means gaining a sense of entitlement while also lowering your standards. At least that’s how Jon Fisch feels after living in the city for 15 years, as he joked on Friday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Take Fisch’s apartment, for example. Or his …
In 2014, Comedy Central ordered an animated pilot for Power Moves, based on the book of the same title, that was based on the Twitter feed of @DadBoner, aka Karl Welzein, aka comedian Mike Burns. Comedy Central passed on the pilot. But today, it’s here for you to watch and …
Saffron Herndon signed up for her school’s orchestra today. That would’ve been the biggest news for most any 11-year-old. But we also learned today that A&E will broadcast a 10-episode reality series following her exploits away from school as Saffy follows her dreams of a career in stand-up comedy. She’s not …
Watch Mary Mack earn “the worst applause break in history” during her stand-up performance on Wednesday’s Conan. Those are Mack’s words! And she cracks Conan O’Brien up while doing so, as she also joked about performing in Los Angeles, the weirdness of San Francisco residents claiming “the Bay Area,” and …
Tape Face, aka The Boy With Tape On His Face, aka 38-year-old Sam Wills from New Zealand, rode his unique wave of prop comedy, mime and street performance all the way to the stage for the finale of America’s Got Talent 2016 on Tuesday night. To the sounds of “The …
You’ve seen Jeff Dye tell jokes on Last Comic Standing, try all sorts of tricks last summer on NBC’s I Can Do That, and this summer serving as an Asian tour guide companion for Henry Winkler, Terry Bradshaw, William Shatner and George Foreman on NBC’s Better Late Than Never. But none …
