The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It may be the Stanley Cup Finals in Chicago and Tampa Bay, but in New York City, it’s only the beginning for the cast of IFC’s new sitcom, Benders. Lindsey Broad, Chris Distefano, Mark Gessner, Ruy Iskander and Andrew Schulz have been cast as the starting line for the eight-episode …
Comedy Central is letting us know at the unofficial start of summer that The Daily Show will pass the reins to Trevor Noah at summer’s end, with a Sept. 28, 2015, launch date for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. See? Yeah. It’s happening. Even Jon Stewart is unamused.
David Letterman’s 33-year career in late-night television memorably gave a lot of would-be comedy writers and producers their own starts in show business as interns, receptionists and pages — and wouldn’t you know it — even his grand finale held true to that formula. Caroline Schaper, a 22-year-old intern for …
Just shy of the one-year anniversary of the fatal wreck on the New Jersey Turnpike that killed comedian “Jimmy Mack” and critically wounded Tracy Morgan, Ardie Fuqua and Morgan’s assistant, Walmart has completed out-of-court settlements with the trio of survivors. Papers were filed in federal court, with terms of the …
Drew Lynch was just your average young aspiring stand-up comedian with a stutter, inasmuch as any stuttering comic can be average, until he walked onstage for his audition in this year’s 10th anniversary of America’s Got Talent. Lynch had 4,445 Twitter followers as his audition began airing Tuesday night on …
Anne Meara, an actress and renowned comedian nominated for Emmys, Golden Globes and Tonys who started performing comedy with The Second City’s parent troupe, The Compass Players, and enjoyed a six-decade run as comedy and life partner with Jerry Stiller as Stiller and Meara, has died. Meara was 85. Meara …
Some fans of David Letterman certainly were caught off guard Thursday when they saw construction crews ripping out the seats and the set from inside the Ed Sullivan Theatre and tossing it into dumpsters. Why wouldn’t they sell the pieces at auction, as Stephen Colbert had with his Comedy Central …
Did the six-minute finale montage at the end of Late Show with David Letterman — expertly synchronized to a live performance of “Everlong” by Foo Fighters — make you wish you could hit the pause button more than a few times while still listening to the song? Well, then, thank …
How do you pull off a prequel to a cult comedy movie 15 years later? It’s not exactly movie magic, but it’ll be funny. “We thought it was funny that in the original we played a bunch of thirty year olds playing teenagers. Now we’re in our forties and our characters …
Casey Wilson told Seth Meyers earlier this year that Hulu’s Hotwives franchise would follow the American Horror Story anthology model, using the same actresses over and over but recasting them in new roles. So whom from The Hotwives of Orlando will be rejoining Wilson for the next installment, The Hotwives …
