The Definitive Guide to Comedy
We’re still five weeks away from seeing what the Fusion half-hour edition of The Chris Gethard Show will look like, but you can start getting a feel for it by reliving old episodes of TCGS tonight. Three of them, in fact! Fusion will rebroadcast half-hour highlights of the following episodes …
Ray Romano, who owes his life on television to David Letterman, will host the CBS tribute to the reigning king of late-night TV on May 4, some 16 days before Letterman signs off one final time as host of the Late Show. David Letterman: A Life On Television will air …
HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel has added a comedy segment to round out episodes in this spring’s new season, and this week, Chris Rock stepped up to the plate with several minutes of warning and encouragement for baseball. Not just Major League Baseball, but all of it, speaking as …
Nate Bargatze‘s first Comedy Central hour special debuts in a week-and-a-half, and on Tuesday night, he treated us all to a taste of it on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, with jokes about how his wife’s ex-boyfriend made almost everyone uncomfortable on a boat, and about how poorly he …
Amy Schumer and her Inside Amy Schumer writers and producers really upped the ante for season three with some brilliantly brutal satire, biting with wit and laughs while making a very clear point that our culture’s priorities and viewpoints could use a shake-up. Here are the videos and sketches from …
For the first time in two years, MTV is getting back into the late-night talk show arena, announcing a series order with Big Breakfast for Middle of the Night Show, along with a weekly spin-off talker for Girl Code called Girl Code Live. Both announcements came late Tuesday during MTV’s Upfronts presentation …
The trades are abuzz with Netflix’s latest TV series acquisition, even if Netflix hasn’t released the news officially and nobody knows what the new comedy will be called! That’s because it’ll star Aziz Ansari, who co-created the as-yet-untitled sitcom with his Parks and Recreation colleague Alan Yang that has received …
Whitney Cummings is getting back in front of the cameras by 2016, inking a new deal with HBO for a stand-up comedy special to film this fall and a sitcom pilot based on Maureen Dowd’s book, Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide. Marty Callner will direct the Cummings stand-up special …
Two decades after we last said goodbye to Full House, they’re all coming back. Well, maybe not the Olsen twins. But everybody else. John Stamos announced the done deal on Monday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, confirmed by Netflix. A one-hour special will reunite the cast, 20 years after Danny, Jesse, …
Mark your calendars: Aug. 6, 2015, will end Jon Stewart’s mighty reign as host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Stewart announced his final date at the close of Monday’s episode. Roll the clip! Stewart had told Catie Lazarus two months ago that he wanted to leave the show …
