The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Harrison Greenbaum started out as a magician, but as he told us on Tuesday’s Conan, it takes more than magic to survive seven lightning strikes over one man’s lifetime. What are the odds? About the same as winning a game of Tetris. Or taking a one-way trip to Mars. Roll …
After 25 years hosting an hourly late-night talk show, Conan O’Brien will begin his 26th year by transitioning to host of a newly-formatted nightly half-hour program, plus the added task of hosting national stand-up comedy tours with Team Coco approved comedians. “Since I inherited my Late Night show in 1993, TV has …
Get ready for a lot more Ramy in your life. Hulu announced at its annual upfronts presentation today that it’s ordering Ramy, a sitcom based on the real life of stand-up comedian Ramy Youssef. The series takes viewers into the world of Ramy, a first generation American Muslim who is …
Congrats to Justine Marino and Heidi Heaslet! After more than a year of live monthly shows in The Comedy Store’s Belly Room, Marino and Heaslet have sold their “Stand Up 2 the Streets” comedy dance competition as a TV series to E! The network announced it’ll adapt the live show …
Some parts of the Happy Ending gang are finding a new beginning in 2019 with a YouTube Red series that’ll star Adam Pally alongside Sam Richardson and Jay Pharoah. To wit: The creator of Happy Endings, David Caspe, that show’s writers Daniel Libman and Matthew Libman, executive producer Jamie Tarses, studio …
Romesh Ranganathan will star in his own docu-comedy series for Showtime,Just Another Immigrant, with two half-hour episodes airing on Fridays for five weeks this summer, starting June 8, 2018. The series description, via Showtime: Just Another Immigrant follows Romesh Ranganathan, one of the most popular stand-ups in the UK, as he uproots …
Julio Torres, writer on Saturday Night Live and frequent collaborator/correspondent for Jimmy Fallon, returned to The Tonight Show on Friday to deliver a stand-up performance as “a carefree platinum blonde.” That’s not who he always was, tho. He has cared about significant matters, such as Cinderella’s glass slipper. Roll the …
Michael Palascak’s mother may have been more excited than he was to perform on Thursday’s Late Late Show with James Corden. But as he has to explain to her, you don’t need to be famous to have famous-people problems. Such as going to the wedding of your girlfriend’s ex-boyfriend. Roll …
You can run from your problems if your problems are location-based. So jokes Joe Machi on his most recent late-night performance, from Wednesday’s Conan. What about the problems other people only think he has, though? Roll the clip!
Move over Fluffy. Here comes Mr. Iglesias. Netflix announced today it has ordered a 10-episode season of Mr. Iglesias, a new multi-cam sitcom starring stand-up comedian Gabriel Iglesias, as well as two comedy specials from him to come. In his sitcom, Iglesias will star as a good-natured public high school teacher …
