The Definitive Guide to Comedy
At today’s Upfronts presentation for TBS and TNT, the cable networks announced they’re keeping Team Coco in business through 2018 with another three-year contract extension for Conan. And throughout Burbank’s Team Coco HQ, and everywhere fans of Conan O’Brien, Andy Richter and the rest of the team exist, late-night TV …
If at first your Saturday Night Live sketch does not succeed in making the cut for broadcast on NBC, try, try again. Or wait until you leave the show and your former colleague and head writer has his own platform — in which case, here’s Late Night with Seth Meyers …
Pilot season doesn’t always make sense, and certainly doesn’t feel like it’s under your control, whether you’re an actor, writer, director or producer. Three months ago, stand-up comedian Cristela Alonzo told The Comic’s Comic that her pilot, based on her own life experiences, “isn’t going forward at ABC for now.” …
First Whose Line is it Anyway? gets a revival courtesy of The CW; then, NBC gets back into the celebrity game-show arena with Hollywood Game Night. What’s next? A full-scale RIOT?! Well, yes, tonight on FOX. That’s the name of the new limited-run summer comedy series, brought to us by …
Ryan Hamilton knows what he looks like, you guys. And as a stand-up comedian, Hamilton knows to come out swinging and takes the first shot at himself, and then some, referring to his permanent smile and how it makes him look more like a comedy club logo than an actual …
At FOX’s Upfronts presentation on Monday, network chief Kevin Reilly confirmed that the long-rumored crossover meeting of Animation Domination stalwarts (and rivals?) The Simpsons and Family Guy would air this September as a special hourlong episode. It’ll be called, simply, The Simpsons Guy. Teaser footage screened showing Bart Simpson and …
FOX is not going to let animation dominate Sunday nights any longer in 2014. Sure, there will be three looney toons on the night this fall — Bob’s Burgers, The Simpsons and Family Guy. But they’ll be separated by the reigning Golden Globe winner in Brooklyn Nine-Nine, as well as …
NBC revealed its new primetime schedule for Fall 2014 in advance of today’s Upfront presentation to advertisers. Parks and Recreation will return in midseason for its seventh and final season. Community will not return for a sixth season (on NBC), and the other rookie sitcoms from the Peacock Network all …
Can we give Saturday Night Live an A for Effort even if there’s no letter “A” in the word? That’s how I felt during the longest good-nights segment in quite a long time, as the SNL cast waved and hugged and waved some more and mouthed “Happy Mother’s Day” to …
Friday after business hours: That’s usually when the powers-that-be quietly dump bad news in the media’s lap, so it cannot be followed up and quickly gets lost in the shuffle toward the weekend’s more leisurely pursuits. And yet. And yet! The 7 o’clock hour Friday wrapped up 24 hours of …
