The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore will be no more after this week. Comedy Central has canceled the late-night satire series after a year and a half. It’s last episode will air Thursday. Wilmore broke the news to his staff this morning. “Even though we’ve given it a year and …
Turns out there’s more to the story of the sudden departures of both Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah from Saturday Night Live in the summer before their seventh seasons on the comedy showcase. Showtime had been negotiating with SNL and NBC to cast both of them in new comedy pilots …
Showtime’s David Nevins announced today to the TV Critics Association that Stephen Colbert will anchor his own live coverage of 2016 election results on the pay-TV network come Tuesday, Nov. 8. CBS already is pre-empting The Late Show then because CBS News will air its own Election 2016 throughout the evening. …
Adam Conover not only will “ruin” our culture’s strongly conceived notions of weddings, hydration, dog breeding and movie ratings in season two of his truTV series Adam Ruins Everything, but also will bring his humorous perspective and researchers to bear down on the 2016 election with a special and a …
Lorne Michaels has orchestrated Saturday Night Live‘s first major purge of veteran cast members in a decade, letting loose repertory players Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah plus featured player Jon Rudnitsky in advance of season 42. Killam and Pharoah were six seasons into the usual seven-season contract cast members sign …
Not to be confused with the Teen Choice Awards, the TCA Awards handed out over the weekend let us know what TV shows in this “Too Much TV” or “Peak TV” era have captured the hearts and minds of North America’s TV critics. So if you thought your favorite TV …
Matt Villines died in July after a two-year battle with kidney cancer. Villines was only 39, still approaching the heights of his career as a comedy director. As half of the directing duo, Matt & Oz, he was responsible for many of your favorite short films that have aired on Saturday …
Mark Normand owns a suit! A nice summer suit at that! I joke because for years, Normand always wore the same lucky track jacket in live shows, stand-up performances on TV, and even his album cover. For his debut on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, however, he cleaned up …
Stand-up comedian Jeff Dye has done so much television over the past few years since competing on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, I almost didn’t believe it when Jimmy Fallon introduced Dye on The Tonight Show as making his “late-night debut” on Wednesday night’s show. And yet. While you can see …
Seinfeld went off the air on NBC in May 1998 with 76 million viewers tuning in to see Jerry, George, Elaine and Kramer get their just punishments for being horrible New Yorkers. In recent years, parody Twitter accounts such as Modern Seinfeld and Seinfeld Current Day have imagined the foursome …
