The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Ryan Hamilton is a great stand-up comedian and a great stand-up guy who performed to great acclaim on Friday night’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. You can watch it right here, as he describes the unnecessarily laborious process to cancel his gym membership in 2016. Side note: …
Brie Larson hosted Saturday Night Live for the Mother’s Day weekend episode, but SNL star Dana Carvey returned in a bit of a surprise to open the show this weekend with his holy mother of a favorite sketch from the 1980s, The Church Lady’s “Church Chat” talk show. Well, isn’t …
Back in 1997, the former broadcast network UPN ordered an animated primetime TV version of The Blues Brothers, voiced by Dan Aykroyd and John Belushi’s brothers Peter and Jim, but canceled the series before airing any of the eight episodes they made. In 2011, Aykroyd, Belushi’s widow Judy, and former …
“If you’re yelling at somebody for doing pot wrong, I feel like you’re also doing pot wrong.” So sayeth Myq Kaplan in his most recent stand-up performance on Conan, so let it be done. Or undone. Kaplan explains how you cannot judge an entire genre by one thing, and even springs …
Congrats to Craig Ferguson for feeling doubly validated for moving from late-night to daytime and talk shows to game shows, as Ferguson has won his second consecutive Daytime Emmy for Outstanding Game Show Host. Ferguson hosts Celebrity Name Game, which airs in syndication, sometimes in the morning, sometimes in the …
ABC figured out how to bring back the primetime game show some 17 years ago with Who Wants to be A Millionaire, and after a successful run last year of Celebrity Family Feud with Steve Harvey, the broadcast network is going all-in on Sunday nights this summer. The big news …
Jack Whitehall doesn’t look or sound as young as he still is, but that’s part of his charm — combined with starting in show business at an early age. For his stand-up performance on Friday’s Tonight Show, Whitehall joked about how his British accent isn’t quite as sexy as you …
Getting the gang back together proved so much fun last year, why not do it all again? That’s the spirit! Netflix announced today that Wet Hot American Summer: Ten Years Later will come to its streaming screens much sooner than later — with an eight-episode order set to premiere in …
Steve Gillespie comes to us from Minnesota by way of Wisconsin, or is it the other way around? Either way, Gillespie made his first stand-up appearance on Conan on Monday. He jokes that he’d much prefer being a step-dad to someone than being the dad. He doesn’t even have his own …
Congratulations to black-ish, Master of None, Transparent and UnReal, among the TV programs honored this year in the 75th annual edition of The Peabody Awards. The Peabody Awards, from University of Georgia’s Grady College of Journalism and Mass Communication, honor excellence in broadcasting. Other honorees for 2016 include the film Beasts of No Nation, and …
