The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Nate Bargatze had gotten bumped recently from Conan when the other segments ran long. This week, they brought him back and had him tape his stand-up comedy in advance, and made sure to fit it into the program last night. Among other things, you’ll learn how to deal with marriage, …
First Dane Cook, now Doug Stanhope?!?! Louis CK is bringing in some big comedy guns for season two of his groundbreaking cinema verite TV series, Louie. From the title of this clip, it’d appear that Stanhope, unlike Cook, is not playing himself, but rather CK’s “old friend,” “Eddie.” Although he …
Wondering what Stephen Colbert’s “Colbert Super PAC” would do with its newfound political freedom of the press? Wonder no more. Colbert’s first Super PAC Ad hit the Iowa TV airwaves and YouTube today, timed for the Ames Straw Poll of presidential candidates for 2012. The ad, “Episode IV: A New Hope,” …
TBS announced today that it was canceling Lopez Tonight, the late-night vehicle for George Lopez that debuted in November 2009. For its 21-month-run, Lopez Tonight served as the only true successor to Arsenio Hall’s old late-night show on FOX, both in terms of energy and diversity. Here is the brief …
Aug. 14 is an odd date to launch a sketch TV show, let alone one revolving around only one sketch player, but that’s what FOX has decided to do with In The Flow with Affion Crockett, starring one Affion Crockettt as a variety of characters both known and unknown. It …
On Saturday Night Live, oftentimes something will strike the cast and writers as super-funny around the office (particularly late at night Tuesday and into Wednesday morning of an SNL week), but not quite translate onscreen before the live audience. Such was the case, apparently, with Cup Boy and Plate Boy, …
This morning at the TCA Summer Tour, FX announced to TV critics that the cable network not only already ordered renewals for Louis CK’s Louie (for season three) and Wilfred (for season two), but also had made a deal with the cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia for seasons …
Earlier this week, Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios, Inc., announced that its late-night talker Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen had earned a two-season renewal for fall 2011 and fall 2012 (seasons six and seven) in the largest CBS markets of New York City (WCBS), Los Angeles (KCBS) and Chicago (WBBM). The …
After four years, Louis CK and Dane Cook finally got to sit down and hash out the debate among comedy fans — and themselves — about whether or not Cook had lifted three of CK’s jokes. Cook had told me in a 2007 interview that he most certainly hadn’t (even …
TV shows and their online video policies are weird. Take Jimmy Kimmel Live, for instance. The ABC late-night chat show has its own YouTube channel and puts most of every episode online the next morning, but does so by splitting every segment up into multiple bits. I learned from another …
