The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Not every TV series David Cross stars in comes back after an extended hiatus. It just seems that way. IFC announced today that The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret will return to the cable network in 2015 for its third season, three years after we last saw Cross’s Margaret flailing …
You probably didn’t remember that Sarah Silverman was on the cast of SNL for one season during her young adulthood. But NBC let us all know throughout the week. Come Saturday, the show’s cast and writers proved they had seemed to find their stride the second week through the motions, …
One sketch had them singing for their supper in the Pechanga Resort & Casino in Temecula, Calif. The other stuck them on a riverboat in Nebraska. In both cases — The Groundlings this summer, and SNL this past Saturday — we saw women dolled up in 1980s-era Tina Turner wigs …
The highlight of Sarah Silverman’s first time hosting Saturday Night Live undoubtedly came early in the show, during her monologue. Silverman not only engaged in some next-level meta fun by acknowledging her past — two decades ago as an almost-forgotten featured player in the SNL cast, relegated to roles as …
Jerrod Carmichael told me back in May that filming his first stand-up hour would be special to him, not only because Spike Lee would direct him but also because the location, The Comedy Store, was sentimental to him. Where Carmichael first broke through in Hollywood. Where he feels most at …
Dane Cook is in New York City this weekend, and showed up Friday to perform on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. What about love? Are you in love? How do you talk when you’re in love? Roll the clips! They’re cut into two because of NBC’s rule of nothing …
Simon Amstell returned to Late Show with David Letterman on Friday night, a little older, a little less cheeky? That’s his worry. Well, one of his worries. Amstell jokes about his fragile ego and having to live in competition with others for happiness. Perhaps a trip to Peru is in …
The Emmys may have celebrated the past year of television, and the new Fall TV series have yet to premiere, but Hollywood always keeps an eye to the future, and August still signifies the start to the following year’s development cycle. You’ll hear a lot in the trades and the …
TV Land is embracing single-cam sitcoms for 2015, ordering up two new comedies for next year that ditch the live studio audiences for fun in the field. The new series, with 10 episodes each forthcoming, are Impastor and Teachers. “Impastor and Teachers are perfect examples of the type of comedies …
Pete Correale is no spring chicken. And yet, on Wednesday’s Conan, he let us in on the fact that he’s married with a very young daughter. And so fatherhood begins. His family lives in the kind of small town where everybody likes to go fishing. But it’s not the kind …
