The Definitive Guide to Comedy
“In a perfect world, in five years I’m Ed Sullivan.” That’s Neil Patrick Harris, describing his career ambitions in a new interview with Charlie Rose, just after NBC announced that it’d ordered a 10-episode variety series fronted by NPH to bow in 2015. Roll the clip to see what else …
We’re overflowing from so much comedy on our electronic screens, there’s even a sketch TV boom exploding from within the current comedy boom. While Saturday Night Live celebrates its 40th season this year, Comedy Central is bringing the buzz and the heat with Key & Peele, Inside Amy Schumer, Kroll …
Over the weekend, John Mulaney and Nasim Pedrad closed out the New York Television Festival by sitting down with Grantland’s Andy Greenwald for a Q&A and screening of their new FOX sitcom, Mulaney. The sitcom had the weekend off — pre-empted Sunday night for Game 5 of the 2014 World …
Last year’s Super Bowl week Friars Club Roast of Boomer Esiason in New York City never aired on TV, so if you weren’t there, you missed it. ESPN isn’t going to make that mistake again. The cable sports giant has entered into a partnership with The Friars Club to televise …
NBC has been searching for a new variety series franchise for the past couple of years. Neil Patrick Harris has been looking to front a variety series, and even talked to CBS about such a gig back in May. NBC, meet NPH! The Peacock Network confirmed today, as first reported …
The annual New York Television Festival (NYTVF) announced the winners Saturday night in 12 categories of its Independent Pilot Competition as well as 20 development deal winners from various cable channels, studios and digital network partners. “We had a fantastic week with more events, projects, deals, and overall artist and …
At least one of the three rom-com sitcoms that bowed on network TV this September will not have a happy ending, nor even a Merry Christmas. ABC cancelled Manhattan Love Story over the weekend. The single-cam starred Analeigh Tipton and Jake McDorman as lead couple Dana and Peter, whose inner …
Jim Carrey is back 20 years later with the sequel to Dumb and Dumber this fall, so is 52 the new 22? Can you handle his physical comedy better now that distance has made your hearts grow fonder for it? Can I come up with another mixed metaphor for how …
Craig Ferguson’s final night hosting The Late Late Show on CBS will come Dec. 19, just shy of Christmas. CBS just announced his successor, James Corden (as seen in Ferguson’s framed photo), will take over The Late Late Show with James Corden starting Monday, March 9, 2015. So, what about …
The “Greatest Generation” won a world war, had to drink pulp in their orange juice and couldn’t download a book into their hands within seconds. So how great were they, really? One of my faves, Gary Gulman, performed on Tuesday’s Conan and put all of that and some more technological …
