The Definitive Guide to Comedy
BAM! Jimmy Kimmel Live and his ABC late-night TV crew are returning to Brooklyn and the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House for a third time this October, filming five shows from Oct. 16-20, 2017. In his two previous visits to BAM, Kimmel has filmed segments near his …
Fresh off of the summer TCA rounds, BET has released this scene from the upcoming sketch-reality series The Comedy Get Down, starring Cedric The Entertainer, Eddie Griffin, D.L. Hughley, George Lopez and Charlie Murphy. In this scene, George, Ced and D.L. meet with one of their sponsors to try to …
For everyone who thought 1990s hit sitcom Friends was too unrealistic or too white, Jay-Z and director Alan Yang are here for you. Yang (Master of None) directed the music video for Jay-Z’s new single, “Moonlight,” which dropped Friday afternoon. It’s a beat-by-beat re-enactment of a scene from Friends, with …
The ABC television network may make a major production out of reviving all of our favorite game shows from the 1970s in primetime this summer. But nobody, not even the revived edition of Match Game (sorry, Alec Baldwin), has recaptured the great giddy aesthetic of Match Game like @midnight with …
The O.G. Karate Kid may look ageless, but Ralph Macchio is going to find out what it’s like to be grown-up Daniel LaRusso soon enough, as YouTube Red has outbid other streaming platforms for a 10-episode half-hour series called Cobra Kai. Cobra Kai will pick up three decades after the …
Casey James Salengo has his first half-hour coming out this fall on Comedy Central, but he made his network TV debut last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Salengo joked about growing up as “white trash” and what that really means, and trying to make sense of Bumble. Roll the clip.
After a 14-month break, The Chris Gethard Show is back in session. Same host. Same cast. Same set. Same band. Shannon O’Neill, Bethany Hall, The Human Fish, Vacation Jason, Murf and all haven’t left the building. But Gethard and his merry minions will now be broadcasting LIVE, and on a TV …
When Dave Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live just after the presidential election, the iconic comedian urged the audience during his monologue to give Trump a chance. Fast-forward to Wednesday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and after six months in office, Trump’s chances have run out. Or have …
Preacher Lawson has been a hit so far on the 2017 season of America’s Got Talent, and he also killed last week in Montreal as one of this year’s New Faces at Just For Laughs. Back on pre-taped NBC television, however, he was still in the running on the Judge …
In Tuesday night’s latest round of “Judge Cuts,” 23-year-old Daniel Ferguson sang impersonations of Marge Simpson, Gollum, and judge Howie Mandel’s Bobby cartoon. Was it enough to get him to the live shows, though? (no) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaOZSFte4sw
