The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Classes are back in session at Chicagoland’s Fillmore Elementary School, where Ms. Cannon (Caitlin Barlow), Ms. Bennigan (Katie O’Brien), Ms. Snap (Katy Colloton), Ms. Feldman (Cate Freedman), Ms. Watson (Kate Lambert) and Mrs. Adler (Kathryn Renee Thomas) are fulfilling their duties, sort of, as teachers in TV Land’s Teachers. The …
All week back in Harlem at the Apollo, Team Coco is celebrating the New York Comedy Festival and the TBS partnership with it by featuring a stand-up comedian on each episode. Monday: Former Last Comic Standing winner Rod Man. He joked about how differently you’ll react in a crosswalk when …
Larry David hosted Saturday Night Live, and of course he reprised his Sen. Bernie Sanders impersonation, but since he hosted the show, David also delivered a stand-up comedy monologue. Would you believe he’d be willing to joke about the Holocaust and sexual harassment, and somehow connect them together? Of course …
It’s barely November, but Comedy Central already is prepared to celebrate the Christmas spirit, and its sleigh ride into December and the New Year will include specials from Drunk History, The President Show and The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Here are the details and promos: Drunk History Christmas Special will …
Some people hibernate for winter. Beth Stelling likes to wrap herself in a meat coat, but living in Los Angeles makes it difficult to know when to start and stop meating, as she explained on Wednesday’s Conan. Stelling also joked about how 60something women like her mom have difficulties operating …
“It’s never going to end. Never!” That’s Joel Kim Booster on Conan on Halloween, comparing 2017 to a horror movie that you think you’ve survived, only to find out it’s still not over yet. Roll the clip!
Here’s the new red band unrestricted trailer to No Activity, the first sitcom from Funny or Die for exclusive streaming on CBS All Access. Based on an Australian series, the American adaptation focuses on cops where not much happens, until suddenly a lot does. It debuts Nov. 12, with a …
The 13th annual New York Television Festival named the winners of its annual contests and development deals for independent pilots over the weekend. “Best of the Fest” honors went to Giving Up while the NYTVF Critics Award was presented to Royally. “A dozen years after our first Festival, I continue to be impressed …
StandUp NBC, the annual nationwide search for comedic talent from more diverse backgrounds than purely white and male, has announced its finalists for the 2017 contest. After regional searches in Philadelphia, Atlanta, San Francisco and Chicago, the following nine comedians will perform at the finals this coming Nov. 29 at …
Netflix has announced its second group of stand-up comedians to film half-hour specials for the streaming giant! Aparna Nancherla, Kyle Kinane, Rachel Feinstein, Joe List, Gina Yashere and Brent Morin are set to record next week in Los Angeles for Netflix, with tapings Nov. 5-6, 2017, at The Globe Theater. Tickets are available for free, must …
