The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Viacom, Comedy Central’s parent company, is keeping Daily Show host Trevor Noah in the fold for a while. The deal includes multiple platforms for Noah’s production shingle, Day Zero. It helps that Noah already has lined up with Paramount for the movie adaptation of his memoir, Born a Crime: Stories from …
America’s funniest home videos have a new place to earn their amateur filmmakers some laughs and some money. GSN, aka the Game Show Network, has announced it has ordered Caroline & Friends to launch this summer. Hosted by comedian Caroline Rhea, this game show will find Rhea and two of …
Joe List performed on Friday night’s Tonight Show, and reminded us all how body-shaming didn’t used to have a name, his routine at the gym, and an awkward moment in a hotel hot tub. At least List makes the most of it! You can watch a whole half-hour from List on …
Congrats to the comedians and funny writers named today to NBC’s Late Night Writers Workshop, an annual program “focused on exposing talented sketch and comedy writers to NBCUniversal’s late night & alternative line-up and readying them for a staff writer position.” Alumni include Chelsea Davison (“The Opposition with Jordan Klepper”), …
When John Oliver’s announced his staff at HBO’s Last Week Tonight had made a parody of a children’s book about Vice President Mike Pence’s family rabbit, making the rabbit’s story about gay marriage instead, Oliver didn’t expect it’d actually sell as well as it did. “A Day in the Life …
Adam Cayton-Holland performed Thursday on The Late Late Show with James Corden and filled us in on how his life has changed since getting married a year ago. Too many dogs. Not enough rhymes. Roll the clip. Cayton-Holland has a brand-new comedy album out now. Buy it here!
Rory Albanese used to work behind the scenes with Stephen Colbert as an executive producer on the old Daily Show. Now here’s Albanese front and center performing stand up, wherein he imagines what it’d be like to perform a citizen’s arrest in 2018 in New York City, and enjoys dating …
Rachel Feinstein feels like she must apologize for her mother, who is so aggressively liberal she attempts to bond with the immigrant cab drivers of New York City. Feinstein explains in this stand-up performance on Monday night’s Conan. You can see more of Feinstein in season 2 of The Standups, …
A decade after an eight-season run on NBC, Will & Grace is proving even more popular for the network in its revival — already earning a two-season renewal into 2020. The cast and creators announced the news Saturday during a previously planned celebration of the sitcom at PaleyFest in Beverly …
Jimmy O. Yang has a new memoir out, How To American. It’s about how his family brought him to the States from Hong Kong when he was 13, and how he discovered comedy. It’s also a great time for Yang, as he stands to benefit from T.J. Miller’s departure from …
