The Definitive Guide to Comedy
After only seven episodes in two months, Kathy Griffin announced Thursday night that she had left her newest gig — replacing the late Joan Rivers as host of E!’s Fashion Police — because the show’s conceit of mocking celebrities for their red-carpet outfits was even meaner than she was willing …
As the Emmy Awards rotate among the four major broadcast networks each year, each network usually turns to its late-night talk show host or its brightest comedy star to host the ceremonies. FOX doesn’t offer a late-night talk show, but it does have a comedy star with late-night experience at …
On Wednesday night’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, the decision by Florida to ban the term “climate change,” which conservatives previously decided to say to avoid saying “global warming,” got Wilmore thinking. Plus, there’s a movement afoot to “ban bossy”? “We could just tell people to stop insulting women,” …
Last Comic Standing still doesn’t have a premiere date for summer 2015, but when it returns to NBC for a ninth season of stand-up competition, it’ll do so with a new host, new judge and a truncated eight-episode season. Your new host, replacing JB Smoove…is…Anthony Jeselnik! Jeselnik, a veteran of …
The last time Will Ferrell starred in an HBO special, he was lampooning former President George W. Bush on Broadway. On Thursday, Ferrell will be pretending to be something he’s not once more for HBO, but this time, it’s for a very good cause — in partnership with Major League …
The next iteration of MTV2’s meme mashup of Ridiculousness and Failosophy is here, and a crew of comedians is ready to improvise jokes, games and prank calls in the new comedic game-show series, MTV2’s Joking Off, which premieres this April Fool’s Day at 11 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, hosted by DeRay Davis. …
GSN, the Game Show Network, announced Tuesday during its annual Upfront presentation that it has ordered a brand-new game show hosted by and starring comedians, Lie Detectors. Rove McManus will host, and contestants from the audience will face off against three comedians to determine which of the three is telling …
FOX has announced its summer programming plans for 2015, which include the return of one game show and debut of another, both of which are hosted by stand-up comedians. Tom Papa will host the new primetime game show, Boom!, that’s based on an Israeli format — it’s a quiz show …
Jenna McMahon began her show-business career as one-half of a comedy duo that performed on all of the big talk shows of the 1960s and 1970s, but it was what she and her comedy partner Dick Clair did behind the scenes that made a more lasting impact, as their sketches …
Jerrod Carmichael will find out if he’s ready for primetime in the coming year, as NBC just announced it has ordered six episodes of the untitled multi-cam sitcom based on his life and stand-up, which had been titled Go Jerrod Go. “We’re excited to be going forward to series with Jerrod. …
