The Definitive Guide to Comedy
That Bill Murray Christmas special is happening, and you’ll have to have Netflix to see it come December. Netflix decked the first halls today for A Very Murray Christmas with a promotional teaser clip. It features Murray as himself (or a version thereof) who’s trying to make a TV special in …
Enjoy this Throwback Thursday with a look back across a century of laughs and comedian-on-comedian ribbing as PBS premieres a new half-hour documentary on The Friars Club as part of the “Treasures of New York” series. The special debuts at 10 tonight on WLIW21, and 10 p.m. Friday on WNET-THIRTEEN. …
Fuse is getting into the Fluffy Guy business for years to come, with a tour-based comedy series starting production today in Las Vegas with Gabriel Iglesias and his friends, plus a multi-year partnership for more series and specials. “Gabriel is the perfect example of the type of talent that is …
In 2013, comedian Joe Wong returned to China after living in the United States for close to two decades — first graduating from Rice University in Houston with a doctorate in biochemistry, then moving to Boston and learning his love for the chemistry of making strangers laugh, which earned him …
The 20th anniversary of HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel continues to bring in stand-up comedians for their sports-related commentary, and this week, Billy Crystal reminds us he was on Gumbel’s first season, too! Two decades after his 1995 appearance, though, Crystal wonders how he’ll ever explain fallen sports heroes …
Comedy Central has released its summer 2015 plans for new and returning programming, which will see the debuts of period-piece-parody Another Period starring Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome, Why? With Hannibal Buress, hour-long stand-up specials from Leggero, Jeffrey Ross, Bridget Everett and Nick Swardson, and new seasons from Key & Peele, Tosh.0, Drunk History, Review and The …
Getting over David Letterman’s retirement certainly won’t be easy. It’ll take more than mental feats of strength, or even the final season of The Mentalist — and yet, CBS has chosen the latter for the short-run. Starting Thursday, CBS stations will rebroadcast the final 12 episodes of The Mentalist’s seventh …
Your song of the summer now just got funnier. IFC and CollegeHumor are collaborating for an hour-long special on June 19 — CollegeHumor’s Comedy Music Hall of Fame, hosted by Paul F. Tompkins. Tompkins will guide us through the high and low notes of musical comedy, plus partake in interviews …
Seth MacFarlane: Genius? If you can convince FOX to reboot Cosmos and teach viewers about space, while also managing to save Family Guy from cancellation, earning a Grammy Award for singing big-band tunes, making a hit out of a talking teddy bear movie, and hosting twice as many Comedy Central …
Set your countdown clocks: The 17th Annual Del Close Marathon is a little more than a month away — now serving up improvised comedy from thousands of performers across nine stages from 4 p.m. Friday, June 26, 2015, through the end of Sunday evening, June 28. Hosted and organized by …
