The Definitive Guide to Comedy
FOX’s Emmy-winning Bob’s Burgers will become a major motion picture. Twentieth Century Fox announced it’ll release the Bob’s Burgers movie on July 17, 2020. “We’re thrilled to be invited to bring Bob’s Burgers to the big screen,” show creator Loren Bouchard said. “We know the movie has to scratch every itch the …
Fans of Lizzy Caplan won’t have to wait much longer to see her back on Showtime. The pay-cable network has acquired the BBC series Ill Behaviour, starring Chris Geere (FX/FXX’s You’re The Worst) and Caplan (Masters of Sex). Ill Behaviour will air on Showtime on Monday nights, beginning Nov. 13, 2017, following …
IFC will become FODtv (Funny Or Die Television) on Saturday nights, starting this Saturday, Oct. 7, 2017. The network announced the venture today. “IFC has been hacked, but we are not calling IT,” said Blake Callaway, EVP, Marketing and Digital Media, IFC. “FODtv takes a bit of inspiration from cable access programs, and …
Saturday Night Live announced new staff writer hires last week in advance of its 43rd season premiere. But SNL usually doesn’t put out press releases or make much ado about the comings and goings of its writers, whether because they don’t want to trumpet when someone gets hired only for …
Jack Whitehall has plenty of questions about air travel, as well as a prank or two up his sleeves. Whitehall shared his thoughts on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. There’s plenty more travel with Whitehall and his dad in a new Netflix series, as well as an upcoming Netflix …
Lorne Michaels brought The Kids in the Hall to television in the late 1980s via HBO and the CBC, and three decades later, he wants to bring them back to whatever you’re calling TV today. You already can still see the five members separately on TV and together in live …
NBCUniversal inked a deal with Hulu that’ll grant the streaming platform exclusive rights to several former NBC series and one brand-new series from Seeso that never would’ve seen the light otherwise. The deal includes putting all episodes of 30 Rock on Hulu as of Oct. 1, 2017. Plus, it means …
Caleb Synan cleans up well for this performance on Tuesday’s Conan. Synan is from a small Southern town near where they filmed Deliverance, and his hometown’s a bit too proud of that. He has plenty more jokes of his own to be proud of, no matter how many “skits” his …
Moses Storm is a fun young comedian to watch, and this performance on Monday’s Conan is testament to that. Watch how he performs the material so it’s not just a six-minute string of jokes, but a full one-man show that you want to see more of. Until then, watch this!
NBC announced that it has added three new cast members — Heidi Gardner, Luke Null and Chris Redd — to the Emmy-winning Saturday Night Live franchise for its 43rd season, which debuts this Saturday, Sept. 30. Gardner comes from the Groundlings main company in Los Angeles. She is also the …
