The Definitive Guide to Comedy
On her Comedy Central series, Inside Amy Schumer, the comedian breaks up her sketch format with pre-recorded stand-up routines. You may be familiar with how Louis C.K. does that on his FX series, or vaguely yet more familiar with how Jerry Seinfeld used to do that on the NBC television …
NBC’s The Office wrapped up nine seasons of documenting the life and times of the employees at Scranton’s Dunder-Mifflin paper company. No spoilers about Thursday night’s finale here. Unless you count this little ditty: “All The Faces,” an original song by Creed Bratton. Which his TV alter-ego, Creed, sang in …
HBO’s current original comedy stable revolves around Girls and Veep. They’ll be rejoined by a double dose of guys by 2014. The pay-cable network has announced pickups of two new comedy series, both set in and around the Bay Area of Northern California. Today came word of an HBO series …
The USA Network’s tagline — “Characters Welcome” — now officially is welcoming sitcoms back into the cable channel’s programming fold. Repeats of ABC’s hit Modern Family will begin airing on USA in September 2013. Come 2014, those repeats will be joined by new episodes or original USA sitcoms Sirens (from …
Comedy Central is about to launch Comedy Central Radio on SiriusXM this weekend, and it’ll make sure that its longtime TV watchers know about it when it happens. Comedy Central’s cable TV channel will go “dark” at midnight Sunday to simulcast the audio feed of Comedy Central Radio for its …
On March 23, 2013, a funny thing happened in the sky above Los Angeles. A skywriting plane wrote letters in cloud form amid the blue sky. An “H,” followed by an “O,” then a “W,” eventually spelling out: “HOW DO I LAND?” The joke culminated the efforts of Kurt Braunohler’s Cloud …
For a special preview for its summer reboot on The CW, Whose Line Is It Anyway celebrates one of its new sister shows, the rebooted Beverly Hills, 90210. Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie are back to come up with song titles for Wayne Brady to make up lyrics in this …
Welcome to Upfronts! The annual TV pageant in which each network puts its new shows and returning hit series on display for potential advertisers. This differs from the summer and winter press tours only insomuch as these parades of stars aren’t explicitly for the TV Critics Association — no dedicated press-conference …
This essay is republished with permission from the author. Jim Tews wrote “An Open Letter From a Decent, White Male Comic” in response to several recent blog posts, Twitter fights and Facebook comment threads about comedy, gender and the appropriateness of certain jokes. And yes, it’s also in response to …
The writers for E!’s Fashion Police with Joan Rivers have been on strike for a couple of weeks, and they’re a bit restless. How restless? They’ve started loitering in other people’s offices and cracking the jokes they could be writing for TV. This is their video for Funny or Die. …
