The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Eagle-eyed viewers of NBC News during Sunday night’s Democratic presidential candidate debate in South Carolina noticed a familiar canine puppet head bobbing behind NBC’s Chuck Todd. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog just photobombed Chuck Todd… #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/bJ8FfzygyO — Kate Sherrill MLS (@KateSherrill) January 18, 2016 And plenty of media folks …
Maria Bamford is Stephen Colbert’s favorite comedian. Don’t take my word for it. Colbert said that himself when he invited Bamford onto The Late Show on Friday night to really kick off the show’s relationship with stand-up comedy and comedians. Bamford joked about being a newlywed and keeping the love …
Judd Apatow enjoyed a bit of fun at the expense of Matt Damon, The Martian and J.J. Abrams having a bit of fun at the expense of Apatow and comedians everywhere when he addressed the audience at the 2016 Critics Choice Awards. Apatow first pointed out the absurdity of the …
In 2015, the Oxygen network brought us Funny Girls, a look at six women in stand-up comedy climbing the show-business ladder in Hollywood. In 2016, Oxygen will bring us Living with Funny, examining six men in comedy in Hollywood — as well as the women in their lives — premiering Tuesday, …
Miranda Sings is building upon her YouTube success with an eight-episode series on Netflix. Back off haters! Or rather, Haters Back Off. That’s the title for the show starring the character created by Colleen Ballinger-Evans, the 29-year-old who has attracted more than 5.78 million YouTube subscribers to date for the …
Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show tenure will receive a second-anniversary primetime party on Valentine’s Day, followed by a week of shows broadcast from Universal Studios in Universal City above Los Angeles. NBC announced the celebration and L.A. visit for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon during the network’s turn Wednesday before …
The comedy boom of the 1970s in Los Angeles will explode again onscreen on Showtime in 2016 as the cable network announced today it’d ordered the adaptation of memoir I’m Dying Up Here to series. It films this fall in Los Angeles. The announcement came during Showtime’s turn at the …
Joe List has a sweet fiance, but perhaps there’s a better way for her to let him know he’s not hot? Don’t worry, though. He’ll never cheat on her. For the obvious reasons, and also for several funny ones, which List explained in his performance Monday night on Conan. Roll …
And the award for best before and after winning the Golden Globes goes to…Rachel Bloom! Congrats, Rachel! Bloom won Sunday night for Best Actress in a TV Series, Comedy or Musical, for starring in the very musical comedy, Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, currently in its first season on The CW. The first …
To children of the 1970s or 1980s, he was “Schneider,” the building superintendent for nine seasons on the CBS sitcom One Day at a Time. But to children of the late 1950s and 1960s, Pat Harrington Jr. inhabited an even more unlikely character, as the Irish son of an comedian …
