The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What a wonderfully solid episode of Saturday Night Live from start to finish. Even the sketches that seemed about to go off the rails enjoyed a moment of salvation. It’s a two-weeks-before-Christmas miracle! Or hopefully a sign of the long-mentioned transition actually transitioning. Either way, let’s get to the recap …
The Late Late Show on CBS will have its first-ever in-house musical bandleader when James Corden debuts in March 2015, and it’s none other than one-man musical genius Reggie Watts! Watts comes with plenty of mock-talk show experience as the bandleader on IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang! with Scott Aukerman, which …
TLC has announced a new weekly late night talk show that’ll debut with six half-hour episodes in January that are All About Sex, anchored and co-hosted by comedians Margaret Cho and Heather McDonald, actress Marissa Jaret Winokur and Dr. Tiffanie Davis Henry. All About Sex debuts at 11 p.m. ET/PT …
Mo Mandel returned for another stand-up performance Wednesday night on Conan, and if you think Mandel has gotten older since then, so have you and everyone else. Mandel wants you to know about his dad, though, who’s now 70 years old. If you think that’s something, though, just listen to …
Kevin Nealon is in New York City this weekend headlining at Carolines on Broadway. But before that, he stopped in Wednesday night to visit old SNL pal Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show. Nealon also performed stand-up, and in this set, he jokes about buying an electric car when there’s …
They announced the nominees for Golden Globes in January 2015, hosted once more by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. The awards show will be great fun. But once more, it’s time to remind everyone that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association doles out these recognitions with somewhat of an agenda, to …
MTV let us all know last night that Amy Schumer would host the 2015 MTV Movie Awards in the biggest and most direct way possible — by inviting Schumer to take over the cable network’s social media and announcing the news herself over Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Vine. Post by …
The final night of the official 2014-2015 TV season also will bid a fond farewell to Late Show with David Letterman, as Letterman, his Worldwide Pants production shingle and CBS announced today that his final broadcast would air May 20, 2015. “David Letterman has given to all of us a …
It’s been a big 24 hours for cable sitcom renewals, with two newcomers in particular — USA’s Playing House and truTV’s Friends of the People — earning season renewals with a little help from their friends and fans in the digital and On Demand spaces. Season 2 of Playing House …
MSG Network has announced that Four Courses with J.B. Smoove will return for a third season with 10 all-new episodes premiering Monday, January 19, 2015. Smoove hosts the half-hour talk show filmed around a table at Hudson Malone restaurant in New York City, as his fellow comedians, actors, athletes and …
