The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Justin Bieber will return to Saturday Night Live for another visit, but this time as musical guest and host on Feb. 9, 2013. Bieber had performed on SNL in 2010 when Tina Fey hosted and also had appeared in a sketch during that …
In case you missed it last night, Lewis Black sat down at the 92Y for a conversation with Judy Gold that covered all of the relevant topics in politics and current events as we open 2013. Which obviously meant a question for Black about his feelings on gun control. Black …
FOX officially announced its debut lineup of new animated series to debut this summer as part of the broadcast network’s new Animation Domination High-Definition (FOX ADHD) late-night block on Saturday nights from 11 p.m. to 12:30 a.m. Each of the three new series received orders for six 15-minute episodes, debuting …
James Adomian is a master of impersonations, particularly of comedians. Included in his arsenal of voices, however, was one person that you might not have known much about, unless you were a Californian. Huell Howser, the longtime host of PBS series California’s Gold via Los Angeles station KCET-TV, died Sunday …
It’s the first full week of 2013, and so, too, the last real opportunity to look back on 2012 without feeling like it’s “too soon” or instant nostalgia or living in the past. Instead, when examining what videos, posts and articles on The Comic’s Comic you clicked on most, it’s …
After a hiatus of nine years, Spike TV has brought back reality series spoof/prank The Joe Schmo Show for a third season. When it premieres tonight, it’ll have the same gimmick as before: One of the characters competing for the big cash prize doesn’t know that everyone else on the show …
Congrats go out to Gina Brillon and Jon Laster, who each has earned a one-year talent holding deal with NBCUniversal for winning 2012’s NBC Stand-Up For Diversity talent search. Jon Laster is from Denver but moved to NYC after college to pursue his stand-up career. You can find out more …
Drunk History isn’t the first webseries to become a TV series, but it is among the more celebrated ones to make the jump. Comedy Central announced over the weekend at the TCA press tour that it had ordered eight half-hour episodes of “Drunk History” to air this summer. UPDATED: The …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Sarah Michelle Gellar is looking to bounce back with a sitcom project at 20th Century Fox, written by Shepard Boucher. Anna Faris is topping a CBS pilot from Chuck Lorre in which she’d play a single mom who sobers up in the wine …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Lionsgate announced it would release Kevin Hart’s next stand-up special as a big-screen movie, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, on July 4, 2013. The concert film was recorded during two sold-out Madison Square Garden shows in November as part of the New York …
