The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Our three-year sojourn with Tina Fey and Amy Poelher as our awards host queens has ended, and the Ricky Gervais Era is once again in session with the Golden Globes, as the Hollywood Foreign Press Association announced Gervais would host the 2016 ceremonies live on NBC this January 2016. Can't …
Winning a prize at the New York Television Festival might not put your independent TV pilot on the air immediately, but it definitely will put you on the map and on the radar for the executives and showrunners who are looking to hire the next great voice. Even just before …
Back in my day, you knew you made it when you could go on TV and say “Hi Mom!” to the camera. Now the kids have the social media and can make their own Instagrams or Vines to shout out their parents. But Megan Gailey took the concept a step …
So much Back To The Future chatter yesterday online, offline and across all of the timelines. And yet. This appearance and performance by Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd in character as Marty McFly and Doc Brown, driving onto the set of Jimmy Kimmel Live and the live studio audience …
A few years ago, YouTube invested $200 million in boosting the profiles and content of 100 of its already higher-profile channels. This time around, YouTube is going to try to beat the other streaming giants by joining them. YouTube announced YouTube Red today, a new membership service providing ad-free videos, webseries and …
Yahoo!’s chief executives told investors and media Tuesday on a conference call that their $42 million investment on original comedy series to build up Yahoo! Screen did not yield much of any financial return. Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer had made a big play for Yahoo! Screen in 2013 by negotiating …
Chris Rock hosted the Academy Awards once in 2005. How about a second time, this time in 2016? What do you say, Chris? Look who's back. #Oscars. pic.twitter.com/7TkkrDpSJM — Chris Rock (@chrisrock) October 21, 2015 Here was Oscars monologue from 2005. Roll the clip! And here is the official press release… …
Baskets, the new FX comedy debuting in 2016 and starring Zach Galifianakis as a clown, released this new clip showing that “Baskets” wasn’t his first choice for a clown name. But there’s no crying in baseball, and no “Renoir” in this clown outfit. At least that’s my impression. What’s yours? …
“A dream come true. Thank you Comedy Central.” That’s Veep‘s Sam Richardson today, as Comedy Central announced it had ordered 10 episodes of Detroiters, a series he co-created with his former Second City cohort and fellow Detroit native Tim Robinson. Robinson, a former SNL cast member and writer, will star in …
Sam Simon wanted to be known as much for his charitable contributions to society as for his comedic contributions, and half a year after his death, hundreds of his artistic works and memorabilia are up for auction at Sotheby’s. As the auction house noted this summer: “Over a series of …
