The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Real Time meets real talk next month, as HBO has announced a Friday the 13th premiere for Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas. Airing at 11:30 p.m. Eastern Friday nights on HBO, Cenac will star in 10 weekly episodes taking him all across America to examine the real problems facing us socially, …
Canadians now have another streaming platform of their own to pitch their stand-up comedy specials. CraveTV‘s first original comedy special, Darcy Michael Goes To Church, premieres Friday. It’s the first of three stand-up projects coming to CraveTV in partnership with Just For Laughs, filmed last September during the JFL42 festival …
truTV and Funny or Die are keeping Murr, Q, Joe and Sal in the pranking business, both on the small and big screens, for the next few years. Not only is Impractical Jokers getting an eighth season on truTV for 2019, but the fellas also will star together in their first …
You can tell by the look on Steve Harvey’s face that things are not going well for Mason Pryor, the young son of the late comedy legend Richard Pryor, on this episode of Showtime at the Apollo. After a big buildup and an opening “hello!” from Mason, the audience loses …
The latest stand-up comedian from last November’s “Comics to Watch” showcase made his debut on Conan on Tuesday night, and Michael Longfellow regaled us with tales about living in California with an 82-year-old roommate who’s not his grandmother. Roll the clip!
After several months in TV purgatory following the death of Seeso, Take My Wife has found two new takers! The first and second seasons of the comedy about married comedians Cameron Esposito and Rhea Butcher starring themselves and their friends became available Monday on iTunes. Come May, Take My Wife …
The Daily Show second-generation poaching is in full effect now, as Netflix has just announced its second new weekly talk-show from a correspondent who up until now was currently sidekicking it for Trevor Noah on Comedy Central. Netflix has ordered 32 weekly episodes of a Hasan Minhaj talk show. It’ll …
Alex Edelman is enough of an Orthodox Jew that he’s never tried bacon. But as he joked on Tuesday’s Conan, he has tried cocaine. If you think that’s something, just wait until you hear him describe his twin brother. Yes, his twin brother. He’s also worked at a KFC. Not …
Nate Fernald is not much of a motorcycle guy. Probably for the best, then, that he’s a writer on The Late Late Show with James Corden, where he learned Tuesday night that funny T-shirts translate to wide audiences and that impressions need a proper set-up to land. Roll the clip.
Steve Martin and Martin Short have been touring together for years now, so it’s about time somebody recorded their act and made it available for your on-demand viewing pleasure. Anyone surprised that it’ll be on Netflix? Here are the fellas with their announcement. Are they calling it Steve Martin Short, …
