The Definitive Guide to Comedy
With Netflix, Hulu and Amazon in a rush not only to create new original content, but also have all of the best stuff you enjoyed watching years ago on TV to watch over and over again, it’s newly notable whenever some other channel/platform acquires series syndication rights. And so Comedy …
D’oh. Now we know why The Problem With Apu continues to be problematic, despite Hank Azaria acknowledging that the voice he has used on The Simpsons for an Indian immigrant running the Springfield convenience store might not be as funny in 2018 as it was in 1988. The Simpsons defended …
We saw four new Sacha Baron Cohen characters in his latest satirical stunt, Who Is America?, which debuted this past Sunday on Showtime. But a fifth character didn’t go over so well, as Baron Cohen found out last year and we only discovered this week, thanks to a California gun …
With all of the new Netflix comedy specials the streaming giant has acquired and broadcast over the past couple of years, it’s not surprising that they’d eventually figure out it’s also the one format that adapts easiest to audio. So today, Netflix announced its first audio venture, an all-comedy channel …
Nimesh Patel is killing the game in comedy, and in Google. But to hear him tell it on Tuesday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, he’s still getting served by his mom. Roll the clip!
Carmen Lynch thought she was going to appear on last week’s audition episode of America’s Got Talent, but AGT decided to save her debut for the “Judges Cut” rounds instead. And so we saw Lynch spotlighted with a set-up from guest judge Ken Jeong talking about quitting his day job …
Part of Conan O’Brien’s restructured deal with TBS included a more involved commitment to stand-up comedy, and Team Coco is doing it to it this week at Comic-Con San Diego with the launch of TEAMCOCOHOUSE. Say what? A few blocks from the convention center, TEAMCOCOHOUSE will showcase a daily lineup of comics …
Mark Normand made a great point on Monday’s Tonight Show: Why do airlines ask us to pick our seats, without letting us pick our seatmates? Would you want to sit next to Normand, though? He describes himself as a serial killer without the ambition. He certainly has ambition to write …
When Sacha Baron Cohen first burst onto the scene with Ali G, Borat and Bruno on British television in 2000 (and then HBO in 2003), you have to remember what America was then. No social media. No hyper-awareness. When he filmed Borat, he could still fool most of the people …
Michelle Wolf went meta by mocking similar weekly comedy shows in this segment of her Netflix series, The Break with Michelle Wolf, called, obviously, Segment Time. “This is comedy now,” Wolf says. Comedy on a TV talk show now = Sincerity, lots of facts, accompanied by graphics, and a courageous …
