The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Keep your action figures in mint condition! Adult Swim has renewed Robot Chicken for a seventh season. Penn Jillette made the cut for the first “All-Star” edition of Celebrity Apprentice, which begins production this week in New York City, with a premiere date …
The first network sitcom of the 2012-2013 to bite the dust never even made it to air. NBC announced late Friday that it had cancelled Dane Cook’s planned midseason sitcom, Next Caller, citing dissatisfaction with the show’s direction. Next Caller had wrapped production on four of its six ordered episodes …
Christina Applegate has hosted Saturday Night Live twice now, but the distance between the two gigs is vast — 19 years vast! Why the long wait? Especially since Applegate’s first time on SNL, back in May 1993, saw the birth of Chris Farley’s motivational speaker character, Matt Foley. What new …
In case you missed it late last night, Adult Swim aired The Greatest Event in Television History. At least that’s what Adam Scott and his wife, Naomi, titled it. The 11-and-a-half-minute special showed Scott and Jon Hamm re-creating — shot for shot — the opening credits to the 1980s detective …
The Javits Center west of midtown Manhattan once again plays host this weekend to the annual New York edition of Comic-Con. While pop culture in the form of blockbuster movies and network TV has taken a lot of the shine away from comic books, Comic-Con — both the main San …
ABC News has its own version of Candid Camera called What Would You Do?, hosted by John Quiñones. The series asks: “How would you respond when you’re thrust into real-life ethical scenarios?” It asks this question literally on the show’s online home page with a quiz. On TV, they hire …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Spike TV announced its all-star lineup to celebrate Eddie Murphy’s three decades as a comedy superstar. Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Tracy Morgan, Arsenio Hall, Brett Ratner, Charlie Murphy, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Martin Lawrence will participate in Eddie Murphy: One Night Only, which as …
That was fast. Not much more than a month after FOX NFL Sunday replaced him with Rob Riggle, comedian Frank Caliendo has found a new home for his John Madden impersonation. Caliendo will join the cast and crew of ESPN Sunday NFL Countdown this Sunday, Oct. 14, 2012. “As a …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Jeff Dunham’s new ventriloquism special, Minding The Monsters, played to 5.02 million viewers when it premiered Sunday night on Comedy Central. Comedians Daniel Sloss and Sam Morril have signed with New Wave Entertainment’s Maureen Talan for management. They join Gary Gulman and Andrew Norelli …
What’s happening in the comedy world… Lewis Black’s limited run on Broadway, Running on Empty, opened last night. The eight performances go through Oct. 20, 2012, at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. FX announced it will postpone the broadcast of season four of Louie to spring 2014. It had been planned …
