The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What’s happening in the comedy world now… FOX has reduced its order for episodes of new midseason comedy, The Goodwin Games, from 13 episodes to a seven-episode run, which includes the pilot plus six additional episodes. It stars Becki Newton, Scott Foley and T.J. Miller. USA has cancelled Fairly Legal …
In case you missed it Tuesday because you were watching post-tropical storm Sandy coverage on TV, or because you didn’t have enough electricity to watch a TV — Ellen DeGeneres received the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, 2012 edition, in a ceremony broadcast Tuesday on PBS. She’s the first openly …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… When you first heard of Charlie Sheen’s 10-episode that could become 100-episode deal with FX for Anger Management, you knew that meant you could wind up seeing twice as much Charlie Sheen on your regular TV dial in a few years, what with …
Jimmy Kimmel idolizes David Letterman. Still does. When Kimmel grew up in Las Vegas, he celebrated a birthday party in a Late Night varsity jacket; the license plate on his car as a teen in Nevada read: “L8 NITE.” Last night, Kimmel finally had the opportunity to sit down with …
What’s happening in the comedy world now…TRICK OR TREAT! I posted yesterday about the impending holes in NBC’s Thursday-night lineup for 2013, and yesterday, the network announced how it would fill them thar holes. Community’s fourth season will begin — yes, will begin — at 8 p.m. Thursdays on Feb. …
Scott Moran’s documentary series about the lives and work of stand-up comedians, “Modern Comedian,” will live on with a new distribution deal with PBS Digital Studios. Moran told The Comic’s Comic: “Yeah! It’s true. They approached me and made a great offer that works well for both of us so …
Inside and outside 30 Rockefeller Center, Jimmy Fallon and his Late Night staff produced their Monday episode a little bit earlier than usual. They could do so because they didn’t have a live studio audience. They had to do so because hurricane-force winds and storm surges from post-tropical storm Sandy …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… The post-tropical storm named Sandy but also referred to as either a hurricane or a “Frankenstorm” prompted the cancellations Monday of live comedy shows in clubs across the Tri-State area, plus Broadway productions and show tapings of The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, …
As the advancing winds and rain of Hurricane Sandy began hitting New York City and the Tri-State area on Monday, the storm forced the cancellation of many live comedy shows, Broadway productions, and TV tapings — among them, the first-ever Brooklyn taping for Jimmy Kimmel Live, as well as regularly …
Alan Kirschenbaum, co-creator of the sitcom Yes, Dear for CBS, who also had a midseason sitcom readying to debut on CBS in early 2013 called Friend Me, died on Friday. He was only 51. Kirschenbaum’s father is Freddie Roman, dean of the Friars Club. Kirschenbaum also was a consulting producer …
