The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In 2011, Comedy Central presented a live online look-in at the comedy tent from the Bonnaroo festival. This summer, the cable channel will package the best stand-up comedy from Bonnaroo for an hour-long special, to premiere June 23, 2012. The announced lineup for Bonnaroo 2012 so far includes Aziz Ansari, …
Craig Ferguson recently took his Late Late Show crew to Scotland — yes, even including Geoff, his robot skeleton sidekick — to film a week’s worth of shows. To celebrate, and also to promote the week, Ferguson and his celebrity guests filmed a music video. Watch as Ferguson, Mila Kunis, Michael …
EPIX revealed its upcoming original programming plans for the rest of 2012, which includes a reunion of the living members of Monty Python for a documentary on the late Graham Chapman, as well as a new stand-up special from Jim Norton. “These original programs are a great complement to the …
Jimmy Fallon and his Late Night crew traveled to the University of North Carolina campus for a special episode of their show for the chance to talk with President Barack Obama on Tuesday night. And did they talk. Obama noted that he hasn’t had much time to keep up with …
Erin Foley made her late-night TV debut as a stand-up comedian last night on Conan, and what did we learn? Foley likes the ladies. She knows more about sports than she does about hair products. Athletes get paid way too much for performances that would not hold up if they …
Conan O’Brien announced on Monday night’s Conan that he and his Team Coco crew would bring their TBS late-night talker back to Chicago this June for a week of tapings that coincides with the 2012 TBS Just For Laughs Chicago comedy festival. O’Brien thus fulfills the promise he made during …
In case you don’t listen to the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast as soon as Earwolf releases a new one to you hounds, then here’s the news as delivered by Scott Aukerman in the third-year finale of CBB: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis is going a full half-hour! On TV! …
The big four broadcast networks usually are coy when it’s still three to four weeks before their official Upfronts debut presentations to advertisers, but NBC isn’t wasting time, at least with former Friends star Matthew Perry. The Peacock Network announced today that it’d ordered Perry’s latest sitcom venture, Go On, …
Jimmy Fallon has built a comedy career on his uncanny impersonations, and even more so since given the five-nights-a-week platform on NBC’s Late Night. He has performed several parody songs that proved popular enough to “go viral” and even prompted the Boss, Bruce Springsteen, to join Fallon as Bob Dylan …
Comedy Central Presents is dead. Long live Comedy Central Presents! In its place, starting in 2012, is The Half Hour. As in past seasons, the half-hour stand-up showcases debut lat on Friday nights. This season opens with back-to-back episodes at 11 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, 10 p.m. Central/Mountain, on Friday, May 11, …
