The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The 2015-2016 TV season has only just begun, but CBS already has locked down one of its biggest comedy stars to come back with a new sitcom in 2016-2017, ordering 13 episodes for production starring Kevin James. It’s an untitled multi-camera series. James played a UPS driver for 207 episodes …
First Cuba, then Comic-Con, now Armenia? Conan O’Brien has taken his show on the road this week — along with his longtime assistant, Sona Movsesian — to Armenia to film a special hour of Conan that’ll air Nov. 10, 2015, on TBS. Movsesian’s family immigrated from Armenia. It’s the first visit …
The Tenderloins — aka Sal, Joe, Murr and Q whom you love to watch torture each other on Impractical Jokers — are celebrating the renewal by truTV for a 26-episode fifth season by inviting a ton of comedy friends to join them on a cruise with fans in January 2016. “Even …
Here’s your first look at W/ Bob & David, the new sketch comedy series reuniting Mr. Show‘s Bob Odenkirk and David Cross and their writers, co-stars and friends in this limited-edition lineup for Netflix! The four half-hour episodes and one-hour “making of” special hit Netflix on Nov. 13, 2015. On …
Amy Schumer’s first monologue as host of Saturday Night Live (because Lorne Michaels and company surely will invite her back again) provided not only a flurry of furiously funny punchlines, but also a hilarious Easter egg for the nerdiest fans of SNL trivia. Can you find it among these chestnuts? To …
Gary Vider made it to the finals this summer of America’s Got Talent on NBC, and certainly made the most of it — not only by telling funny stand-up routines that earned him kudos from the judges and audiences, but also by using his time and the AGT budget to …
Vanity Fair profiles some of the legion of stand-up comedians who work the trenches largely behind the scenes of sitcoms and talk shows in “Warm-Up Comics: The Funniest People in TV Who Are Never on TV.” Seth Herzog, pictured above in the Wonder Woman costume he has managed to work …
What would you do if the pizza delivery shows up just as your grandmother dies? Do you get a discount on a grandma slice? Only one of these questions does Randy Liedtke answer in his stand-up performance on Tuesday’s Conan. As a bonus, though, Liedtke does let you listen in …
It took almost five years, but actress Ellen Page finally got Conan O’Brien to air her stand-up comedy audition tape during Tuesday night’s episode of Conan. Page explained that she was only 23 when she filmed these few minutes of stand-up in a home, substituting a hairbrush for a microphone, …
All is well in NBCUniversal! To promote the premiere of Jay Leno’s Garage on CNBC, Jimmy Fallon ceded his own stage during the monologue Tuesday night for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon so Leno could tell a few minutes of jokes about the 2016 presidential campaigns and the state …
