The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Nick Griffin was back on Conan on Monday night, or rather, Tuesday morning since the TBS broadcast waited out a thrilling end to March Madness and another sneak-peek of the new TBS road trip comedy, The Detour. Money can’t buy you happiness. “OK, but can I be sad in a …
If you watched any of the Final Four these past couple of nights, then you saw the brand-new TV commercial for Chrysler’s Pacifica starring comedian Jim Gaffigan, his kids, and even a clip of his stand-up in the seat-back monitors. That makes two big national ad campaigns currently running for …
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has poached a top writer/contributor from Late Night with Seth Meyers, announcing Michelle Wolf has joined TDS as a writer and on-air contributor. The hiring happened last week, but Comedy Central waited until after last week’s Upfronts to make the announcement. Wolf …
Samantha Bee will re-emerge from her own spring break at TBS knowing full well that Full Frontal has a full year of Monday nights to look forward to. TBS announced today it had ordered 26 additional weekly episodes of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, for a total of 39 episodes in 2016. …
The USA network not only announced that Freddie Prinze Jr. will host the upcoming first season of Dana Carvey’s televised comedy showcase showdown, First Impressions, but also revealed who’ll be competing to show off their best celebrity impersonations this May. They include at least two comedians who have made the …
Fallon favorite Nate Bargatze made his fourth stand-up comedy appearance on The Tonight Show on Friday night, and he’s no April Fool. Although Bargatze did admit he’s a fan of Trump. But in the way that anyone can be sold on a late-night infomercial kind of way, kind of fan. …
Timing be damned, because the spaceship of fools known as MST3K is getting the whole gang back together — including both previous hosts Joel Hodgson and Michael J. Nelson and new host Jonah Ray — for a very special one-night-only reunion for RiffTrax. Set for the reunion, broadcast to movie …
Can we talk? There already just was and still is a great documentary, made just six years ago, that reminds us what it meant to be Joan Rivers. A Piece of Work. What Rivers meant to comedians and all of us, though, that’s the point of Exit Laughing, the first …
This just in! Here’s the press release with all of the details from Comedy Central…including two new showcase series hosted by Kevin Hart (when will he find the time?!?!?), a full TV series of Roast Battles from Jeff Ross and friends (plus a special in which Ross Roasts The Police), …
Fullscreen announced its launching its own ad-free On Demand service, targeting the YouTube generation with a variety of movies, webseries, TV shows and more, starting April 26, 2016, with a $4.99 monthly subscription via iPhone, iPad, Chromecast, www.fullscreen.com and select Android Phones. “This is for an audience that we know …
