The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In case you missed last night’s episode of Louie, or even if you did watch it, a funny highlight put Louis CK into a writer’s room with a bunch of comedians hired to punch up a weak screenplay in the weeks before production. And our titular comedian/auteur/filmmaker cast a wide …
Reading the TV tea leaves seems fairly simple once you read enough of them, because television executives tend to follow certain predictable patterns. Such as: If you hype a new sketch comedy series featuring a relative unknown comedian but backed by a famous TV/movie comedic actor, tell us you’re going …
It’s not even the start of the fall 2011 TV season, and already the networks have been busy buying pitches and signing up talent to development deals — but NBC went the extra step this week and agreed to a “put pilot” commitment with Sarah Silverman for her semi-autobiographical sitcom. …
To hear everyone tell it, you’d think TBS has serious issues with its late-night TV lineup, what with the cancellation of Lopez Tonight after only two seasons, and the steep decline in viewership for Conan as it nears the end of its first year on basic cable. In May, Conan …
On last night’s episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert finally addressed the strange-but-true fact that Texas Gov. Rick Perry had poached Colbert’s Colbert Super PAC treasurer to work on the Republican’s presidential campaign. Plus, Colbert sang part of a classic 1980s ballad! And as he noted, he’d already given …
On Tuesday night’s “wild card” round of America’s Got Talent for 2011, comedian J. Chris Newberg decided to scrap the guitar and went with his gut, and his gut told him to surprise judge Piers Morgan with a live roast of Piers Morgan! Newberg hit Morgan right from the start …
Well, lookie here! Just a few weeks after going into business with My Damn Channel, the fine folks at TIME magazine have come to the same conclusion I had: It’s one of the magazine’s “Best 50 Websites of 2011.” Congrats! Here is what they had to say in TIME about …
See what this super fan of Donald Glover has done? Done gone and taken one of Glover’s rap tunes as Childish Gambino, “Freaks and Geeks,” and made a music video for it using only the most appropriate clips from Glover’s NBC sitcom, Community. Yep. Pretty cool. Note: Lyrics are NSFW. …
Comedy Central has set dates for returning series and new stand-up specials to bow on the cable network this fall. Want to know what to look forward to? Mark your calendars appropriately for… “COMEDY CENTRAL Roast of Charlie Sheen” (World Premiere) Monday, September 19 at 10:00 p.m. “Tosh.0” (Fall Season …
Comedy Central darling Daniel Tosh has earned a second series on the cable network, spearheading an animated comedy, Brickleberry, that’s written and created by comedians Waco O’Guin and Roger Black. The network announced an order for 10 episodes to premiere early in 2012. Brickleberry is based on a group of …
