The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Showtime has picked up two more original series, and one of them is a comedy, House of Lies, that stars Kristen Bell and co-stars comedian Ben Schwartz! Production on the first 12-episode season will begin this summer. Here's a quote from Schwartz via his Rejected Jokes Tumblr, which you should …
As the NFL lockout continues into the spring, what will its impact be on the third season of FX sitcom The League, which is set to return this fall with or without football? The whole series revolves around a group of guys and a woman who compete in fantasy football. …
People who paid up to several hundred dollars per ticket to see Charlie Sheen's live tour had no idea what to expect last night in Detroit. And that was just part of the problem. Unless you were comedian Kirk Fox. And then it was the problem. Because the audience in …
We're still more than a week away from the multi-channel premiere of The Comedy Awards, but TV Land is offering a nostalgic look back at the previous editions of "The American Comedy Awards" with an hourlong special tonight called The Best of The American Comedy Awards: A Retrospective of Past …
Comedians were in the news this week in several different TV announcements. To wit: Andrew "Dice" Clay has a recurring role in the final season of HBO's Entourage. After last night's premiere of Mobbed, FOX ordered eight additional episodes of Howie Mandel's latest TV surprise show. Speaking of surprises, Betty …
Stephen Colbert and Jimmy Fallon got together four weeks ago and sang about their shared elitist status as people with their own Ben & Jerry's ice cream flavors. Their duet ended with an arrangement to become Best Friends For Six Months. Since then, Colbert raised money by auctioning off one …
We knew back in January that Charlie Sheen had joined in the fun during a taping of Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza for GSN in Las Vegas. Right after it happened, Carey himself mentioned it on Twitter, letting everybody know about it: "Charlie Sheen just got on stage with us during our …
Seeing that Jake Johannsen was returning to New York City this weekend to perform at Gotham Comedy Club, and seeing that his most recent special from last year, I Love You, was playing on Showtime, I decided to catch it on the repeat overnight. Johannsen's bit about taxes, of course, …
For a third straight year, Just For Laughs has partnered with TBS to venture into Chicago in June for a multi-day comedy festival featuring top-name comedy talent. While we wait to see which locals make the cut, here's the initial slate of headliners. George Lopez and Russell Peters make return …
If you caught a gander at the Sunday papers in New York City, then you noticed that both the Post and the Daily News have made their annual stabs at pretending to care about comedy. For the past few years, the Post has cast out its nets to round up …