The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Let us take one more look back at the comedians we still love and miss so dearly, who left us in the past year. Jason R. Chin (died Jan. 8, 2015), 46 Taylor Negron (died Jan. 10), 57 Harris Wittels (died Feb. 19), 30 Jenna McMahon (died March 2), 89 …
You can look back on a calendar year from many different perspectives and points of entry. Your memories flash in front of you. And then a website comes and calculates how other people viewed your year for you. Or one slice of your view. Such is 2015bestnine.com, which takes an …
Home for the holidays? Bill Burr’s new animated series for Netflix, F is for Family, will put you in just the right mood while also sending you back to the 1970s. From my review: “F is for Family sneaks up on you and into your heart, much like the first …
Christmas has become an extra special time for Saturday Night Live, as the cast and writers save their best for the end of the year and always manage to attract their biggest alums and famous friends to make a holiday cameo or two. Having all-time favorites Tina Fey and Amy …
Christmas came early to the latest batch of pilot contenders for Amazon Studios, as the retail giant that’s now an award-winning competitor to the other streaming, cable and broadcast TV networks has ordered three new comedies, including Tig Notaro’s One Mississippi, and also renewed rookie 1980s throwback comedy Red Oaks. …
Self-explanatory. From last night’s “Christmas Spectacular” final episode of 2015 from The Late Late Show with James Corden. Roll the clip!
Conan O’Brien’s special Star Wars episode of Conan last night on TBS included much of the cast of Episode VII: The Force Awakens. But before he got to them, Conan and Andy Richter invited a few of their comedian friends to Jerry’s Diner to play out a cold open in …
The year 2016 may just be the year we’re all convinced to stop watching TV the traditional way, and Seeso will go a long way in convincing comedy fans to do just that — if they haven’t already. Seeso, NBCUniversal’s new digital comedy streaming platform, officially launches Jan. 7, 2016, …
Four years before Saturday Night Live, and three years before Monty Python’s Flying Circus would land on this side of the pond, New York City’s public television station Thirteen put a spotlight on great young comedians and actors who’d become ready for primetime soon enough. A pastiche of patriotic medleys …
In this age of “Too Much TV,” we’re also here in New York City living in the age of Too Much Tuna. Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland are peaking. Their Off-Broadway run at the Cherry Lane Theatre has drawn rave reviews from The New York Times and other comedians, …
