JFL New Faces Booker Jeff Singer Submits Resignation
by DEVELOPING… UPDATED June 7 at 10:54 a.m. (h/t Vulture): From a statement by Just For Laughs, confirming Jeff Singer has resigned from the festival after …
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Peacock Renews The Amber Ruffin Show through September 2021
Congrats to Amber Ruffin and her crew at The Amber Ruffin Show! The 20th weekly Friday night episode airs tonight, and NBCUniversal announced today that …
A Lynchian Take on Seinfeld: The Return
This is genius. Or it’s perfect. Either way, Dominick Nero has figured out how to give us a very Lynchian take on Seinfeld with this …
Merrill Markoe Auctioning Off Her Letterman Memorabilia
Merrill Markoe, the Emmy-winning original head writer for Late Night with David Letterman, has begun auctioning off some items from her closet. The first item …
Tiffany Haddish Hosting Second Season of “They Ready” Netflix Half-Hours with Godfrey, Tony Woods, Barbara Carlyle, Erin Jackson, Kimberly Clark, and Dean Edwards
Ready or not, “They Ready” with Tiffany Haddish is back shooting new half-hour stand-up specials tonight and tomorrow for Netflix. It’s all happening in Long …
Montreal’s Virtual JFL 2020 Festival Announces Additional Headliners, Panels
With just 10 days to go before the postponed Just For Laughs debuts its first virtual comedy confab, the folks at JFL have announced some …
HBO Max Unveils Aug. 20, 2020 Slate Of Comedy Special Debuts
HBO is ready to make its big re-splash into stand-up comedy, unveiling four new comedy specials on the same day later this month on HBO …
COVID-19 Pandemic Cancels Mark Twain Prize For American Humor in 2020
The Kennedy Center has announced there will be no Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2020, postponing the ceremony until June 2021 due to …
Bert Kreischer to star in an improvised comedy for Netflix
Bert Kreischer, improv? Yes, and that’s the plan for Kreischer’s new Netflix series, Cabin, an adaptation of Martin Petit’s Les Pecheurs. What’s it all about? …
CollegeHumor lays off 100+ employees as IAC pulls funding, hands reins over to longtime CH’er Sam Reich
CollegeHumor launched online in 1999, begat an MTV show in 2009, and turning the corner from 2019 into 2020, now finds itself in a financial …