The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The CBS Diversity Sketch Comedy Showcase, a staple for 14 years, will begin a run of six shows starting Jan. 15 at the El Portal Theatre in Los Angeles with its cast for 2019. Written by past showcase performers, the variety revue is well-attended by industry execs, and seen as a …
“Pilot Season” begins in earnest in January, so we’re in the home stretch for ordering scripts and sealing deals from the broadcast networks for potential new series in 2019-2020. We do know one sure thing for summer 2019, a sitcom starring Lake Bell, which had been in the works at …
Joe Wong has performed on the Ed Sullivan stage before to perform on David Letterman’s Late Show, and returned this past week to tell Stephen Colbert’s audience a thing or two about China, immigration and walls. Roll the clip!
Pete Lee is racking up the visits to Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show, with four performances in a year’s span. Lee thinks being called “extra” is a good thing, even though he only grew up to be half a man, and had to come out straight to his parents. Roll the …
Katherine Ryan is Canadian, so of course she knows how great Celine Dion is, and in this performance on Wednesday’s Late Late Show with James Corden, she explains what Dion does right, what Melania Trump did wrong, and how British television offers a brutally naked alternative to dating. Roll the …
Carol Burnett has won lifetime achievement awards from the Screen Actors Guild, the Peabody Awards, the Mark Twain Prize, Kennedy Center Honors and the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Now she’ll get her own award in her own name from the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The Golden Globes will launch The …
Emma Willmann returned to The Late Show for her second performance, and had to explain to her father that she’s “the man one” in her lesbian relationships. Do you need explaining? Let Willmann explain. Roll the clip!
Joe Machi will not try to convince you that he is who he is. Nor will Machi apologize for his ways. Roll the clip!
Sam Morril jokes that men are so bad at being good, it’s making him look that much better in comparison! From Wednesday’s Late Late Show with James Corden. Roll the clip!
How do trampolines lead to drugs? Watch and learn from Jourdain Fisher on his performance Thursday from The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Fisher also has done the research on our racial tensions and has some solutions for that. Roll the clip.
