The Definitive Guide to Comedy
At Daytona International Speedway this weekend, the mainstream media is all about Danica Patrick and her bid to win the Daytona 500. But there’s another race to be won tonight. After the Camping World Truck Series event ends, the man who waves the green flag — comedian Jon Reep — …
One of the breakout series on TV this month isn’t on one of the five broadcast networks, nor is it scripted, nor is it even a “reality” for the sake of the “reality” genre tag TV show. It’s AMC’s Talking Dead, a live hourlong talk show hosted by comedian Chris …
End cards or “vanity cards” as they are known derisively/accurately, are those logos and nonsense that flash at the end of TV shows for two seconds. To be accurate, this year it was cut from 2 seconds to 1 ½ seconds. I don’t know why the studio needed that extra …
My friends over at Slacktory, after receiving a request from New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum, assembled a medley mix video of “it’s not TV” clips from the TV. Intentional irony! Note: It just so happened that I spotted the same scene from rookie ABC sitcom The Neighbors that inspired …
After a brief interruption, NBC’s Community returned for its belated fourth season earlier this month. Cast members of the sitcom and their fans have used the Twitter hashtag #sixseasonsandamovie in a bit of wish fulfillment over the past couple of years. Could that still happen? Perhaps. Of course. Anything. Is. …
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Catskills attracted the crowds and the comedians alike. Several decades later, it’s a much different story. CBS Sunday Morning profiled the upstate New York conclave, and how “Borscht Belt” comedy has survived the changes by moving to where the audiences are. “Every comic did …
Congratulations to all of the writers who took home prizes from the 2013 WGA Awards, as well as all of the writers nominated by their Writers Guild of America. Here are the comedy-related winners in bold, with their fellow nominees in those categories: TELEVISION COMEDY SERIES Louie, Written by Pamela …
Comedy Central launches two new series on Feb. 28, 2013, fronted by people you may not already be familiar with — Ben Hoffman’s The Ben Show, and Nathan Fielder’s Nathan For You. So Comedy Central has made their debut episodes free to sample online now. Check them out and see …
Jerry Seinfeld returned to Late Show with David Letterman tonight, but on this trip, Letterman turned the tables on Seinfeld, asking when he might be invited as a guest on Jerry’s webseries for Crackle, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” Well. Would he? Could he? Should he? Seinfeld joked about Letterman …
Just in time for Valentine’s Day, get ready to get your heart broken into a million funny pieces all over again with the second-season debut of Burning Love. The Burning Love webseries on parodies The Bachelor and The Bachelorette so well that it’s making the leap from web to TV. …
