The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you were hoping to use Laughs as a TV credit and as a path to SAG-AFTRA membership, well, let the actors union stop you right there. SAG-AFTRA issued a “no-contract, no-work” order Tuesday against the stand-up comedy showcase series, which debuted late Saturday night on FOX as a summer trial …
When is a movie about The Office not an Office movie? When Ricky Gervais says it is? The BBC and Gervais announced Tuesday that they’re collaborating on a movie imagining his David Brent character in his life 15 years after leaving the paper company he managed in the fictional BBC …
Darik Santos is relatively inexperienced compared to the other stand-up comedians selected for the live quarterfinal rounds of the 2014 season of America’s Got Talent. According to his profile video, he’s living in a small house with his girlfriend’s father? Interesting. That’s also not exactly the parking lot I pictured …
James Corden? James. Corden? Seriously? When CBS Entertainment Chief Nina Tassler told the TV Critics Association last month that the network might be looking in a different direction for The Late Late Show in 2015, once Craig Ferguson ends his 10-year run of hosting the 12:35 a.m. hour, nobody expected …
Just after getting fired from Saturday Night Live, cast member John Milhiser kept his date as a talk-show guest for Running Late with Scott Rogowsky at the UCB Theatre. Milhiser told Rogowsky that his one and only season at SNL was “a dream come true,” but at the same time …
File this under unsurprising surprises. NBC officially renewed summer sitcom Welcome To Sweden for a 10-episode second season. It keeps the Peacock Network in business with Greg Poehler — brother of network darling Amy, and who himself was named one of Variety’s 10 Comics To Watch just last month. And …
NBC’s Last Comic Standing made the penultimate cruelest cut last night, winnowing the field from five to four. The show also introduced Jay Leno as a guest mentor, although I’m not sure what advice he gave them to help in this particular challenge, nor why our finalists had to fly …
Jay Leno appeared briefly on NBC’s Last Comic Standing as the guest mentor for season eight’s top five finalists, before they faced a studio audience and the judges in the first full head-to-head-to-head-to-head-to-head stand-up challenge. We didn’t get to hear or see much of Leno on the TV broadcast Thursday …
One of the plum rewards of winning Last Comic Standing is a development deal with NBC to see if the network can make a sitcom star out of the stand-up comedian champion. Rocky LaPorte, who made the final five on Last Comic this summer, may not have won that deal …
IFC’s adaptation of musical-comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates into TV series format premieres next Thursday (Aug. 7, 2014), but you can sneak a peek of a full episode right here and now, or whenever, online. In the “Speechless” episode, Riki Lindhome and Kate Micucci go on a double-date to test out their …
