The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Forget The Opposition with Jordan Klepper. Klepper would just as rather you did, as he and Comedy Central are ending that late-night talker to launch a different, new weekly show fronted by the comedian who broke through as a correspondent on The Daily Show. The Opposition will air its final …
Romesh Ranganathan was back on The Late Late Show with James Corden, this time with a fresh clip of his soap opera cameos, as depicted in his Showtime series, Just Another Immigrant. Life in America isn’t always a day at the beach, though, as Romesh explains. If you want to …
Rell Battle, who co-starred on Superior Donuts and was part of the original Roast Battle crew, performed Wednesday on Conan. Battle joked about the downsides of growing up with positive role models, the first gentrifiers in the neighborhood, and why he retired from protesting. Plus, we get to meet Battle’s …
The New York Television Festival has selected 13 half-hour comedy scripts for its third annual NYTVF Scripts Competition, with industry executives poring over them and perhaps granting one or more of them with development deals after the fest this July in Manhattan. Among the more intriguing selections, a script by FOX …
NBC has become the first American broadcast TV network to launch its own podcast network that complements its primetime programming. The NBC Entertainment Podcast Network has launched this summer with podcasts devoted to Late Night with Seth Meyers, American Ninja Warrior and The Good Place. You can find these podcast episodes on …
Tom Papa has been telling Joe Rogan about bread for years. Here he was a couple of years ago bringing homemade sourdough to the Joe Rogan Experience. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qtqHI5mOF7w Two days ago, Papa was back on the JRE, this time to announce he’s got a new TV series about bread and …
Allen Strickland Williams had 10 more jokes to tell on Tuesday night’s Conan, and he wonders why nobody puts cocaine in their Coca-Cola, Missy Elliott’s mortgage and more. Roll the clip.
Speaking of Roast Battle… Comedy Central finally announced a renewal for season three of Roast Battle, which debuted as a live and tape-delayed tournament at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival in 2016, followed quickly by a second season filmed in Hollywood. It’ll get six new episodes with a new tournament …
The Fix is in at Netflix. Yes, groan all you want. Then ask comedians Jimmy Carr, Katherine Ryan and D.L. Hughley to fix that, too. The streaming platform has announced it has ordered up 10 episodes of a topical panel show starring the three comedians — Carr will host, while …
If you were wondering how in the heck New Faces would matter in Montreal once ICM bought a stake in Just For Laughs, here’s a new one for you: Even the comedians who don’t get New Faces this year might get TV credits! Amazon announced today it’s filming a six-episode …
