The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The first season of Cristela on ABC ended Friday night. Will there be more than 22 episodes to follow come fall? That’ll be determined in May when the networks announce their 2015-2016 primetime schedules to advertisers at the annual Upfronts. Star stand-up Cristela Alonzo will appear on ABC this week …
Gizmodo has called High Maintenance “the greatest show not on television.” Not anymore. HBO ordered a six-episode run of the Vimeo webseries on Monday — April 20, aka 4/20, aka the high holy day for stoners — to follow the adventures of a friendly Brooklyn pot dealer. “High Maintenance has …
Each of the past couple of years has made a big impact personally and professionally on stand-up comedian Tig Notaro. And yet, somehow, it’s only April and Notaro’s already shaping up to make an even bigger splash comedically in 2015, with a stand-up special on tap with HBO, a documentary …
Jerry Seinfeld doesn’t need Crackle nearly as much as Crackle needs him. But the upstart webseries-turned-streaming provider is backed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which just so happened to back Seinfeld’s hit sitcom and made billions of dollars to go around. So when Seinfeld needed a vehicle to get back on …
There are so many places to see stand-up comedy on TV and online during this digital comedy boom, that it certainly has become difficult to know what credits even matter any longer. As Grant Pardee notes in a piece today for Paste Magazine: “It was funny to see Madonna perform …
Congratulations to Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer and HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, as they joined seven other TV series honored this morning as recipients of the 74th annual Peabody Awards. The Peabodys were created by the National Association of Broadcasters in 1940 to serve as “the Pulitzer …
Comedy Central has been on a hot streak of late. The cable channel has led the resurgence of sketch comedy on TV — launching Key and Peele, Kroll Show, and Inside Amy Schumer — expanded its grip on young viewership of late-night with @midnight, won over critics with series that defy categorization such …
David O’Doherty played a song in the key of life on his teeny-tiny keyboard on Tuesday night’s Conan, and if you don’t recognize your life in his verse, just wait until the next verse. It’s coming. Just like life! Roll the clip.
We’re in the final month of David Letterman’s late-night TV reign, and while Billy Crystal won’t be Letterman’s last guest (although he actually was Jay Leno’s first and last!), Crystal did kick things up a notch or two or more with a musical tribute to Letterman’s sunrise and sunset on …
After swinging his big dildo around Coachella over the weekend (you’ll have to look at Eric Andre’s Instagram for that), Eric Andre burst out of a pinata on Monday night’s Conan to make even bigger and more relevant news. There will be a fourth season of The Eric Andre Show …
