The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The trades are abuzz with Netflix’s latest TV series acquisition, even if Netflix hasn’t released the news officially and nobody knows what the new comedy will be called! That’s because it’ll star Aziz Ansari, who co-created the as-yet-untitled sitcom with his Parks and Recreation colleague Alan Yang that has received …
Whitney Cummings is getting back in front of the cameras by 2016, inking a new deal with HBO for a stand-up comedy special to film this fall and a sitcom pilot based on Maureen Dowd’s book, Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide. Marty Callner will direct the Cummings stand-up special …
Two decades after we last said goodbye to Full House, they’re all coming back. Well, maybe not the Olsen twins. But everybody else. John Stamos announced the done deal on Monday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, confirmed by Netflix. A one-hour special will reunite the cast, 20 years after Danny, Jesse, …
Mark your calendars: Aug. 6, 2015, will end Jon Stewart’s mighty reign as host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Stewart announced his final date at the close of Monday’s episode. Roll the clip! Stewart had told Catie Lazarus two months ago that he wanted to leave the show …
The first season of Cristela on ABC ended Friday night. Will there be more than 22 episodes to follow come fall? That’ll be determined in May when the networks announce their 2015-2016 primetime schedules to advertisers at the annual Upfronts. Star stand-up Cristela Alonzo will appear on ABC this week …
Gizmodo has called High Maintenance “the greatest show not on television.” Not anymore. HBO ordered a six-episode run of the Vimeo webseries on Monday — April 20, aka 4/20, aka the high holy day for stoners — to follow the adventures of a friendly Brooklyn pot dealer. “High Maintenance has …
Each of the past couple of years has made a big impact personally and professionally on stand-up comedian Tig Notaro. And yet, somehow, it’s only April and Notaro’s already shaping up to make an even bigger splash comedically in 2015, with a stand-up special on tap with HBO, a documentary …
Jerry Seinfeld doesn’t need Crackle nearly as much as Crackle needs him. But the upstart webseries-turned-streaming provider is backed by Sony Pictures Entertainment, which just so happened to back Seinfeld’s hit sitcom and made billions of dollars to go around. So when Seinfeld needed a vehicle to get back on …
There are so many places to see stand-up comedy on TV and online during this digital comedy boom, that it certainly has become difficult to know what credits even matter any longer. As Grant Pardee notes in a piece today for Paste Magazine: “It was funny to see Madonna perform …
Congratulations to Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer and HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, as they joined seven other TV series honored this morning as recipients of the 74th annual Peabody Awards. The Peabodys were created by the National Association of Broadcasters in 1940 to serve as “the Pulitzer …
