The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Starting now (now being 2 p.m. Eastern/11 a.m. Pacific on Thursday, March 26, 2015) and lasting for exactly one week, you’ll have the opportunity to pick up a 15-pack of stand-up comedy videos and audio recordings for the low, low price of whatever you want to pay — or, for …
If you’ve ever missed out on a live PaleyFest panel session with the cast and creators of your favorite TV shows, then you’ll be able to catch up on cable TV soon enough. SundanceTV kicks off its first season of Behind the Story with the Paley Center on April 7, …
Daniel Tosh raised a simple, valid question on this week’s episode of his hit Comedy Central series, Tosh.0: How come Comedy Central never has invited Tosh to participate in one of its roasts? Is it because he doesn’t need the extra publicity? Or is the network afraid of making him …
Can you picture hearing “A-A-Ron?” on the big screen? If it was good enough for Saturday Night Live in the 1990s, then why not for one of the critically-acclaimed sketch shows of the 2010s? Key & Peele has spun off one of its Comedy Central sketch characters, substitute teacher Mr. …
No sooner had word surfaced that TBS was passing on Broken Lizard’s Quality Time sitcom pilot, the quintet of Jay Chandrasekhar, Kevin Heffernan, Steve Lemme, Paul Soter, and Erik Stolhanske had moved on to their even bigger passion project — a sequel to their first big-screen breakthrough, Super Troopers. Broken Lizard …
As difficult as it is to believe that Chris Tucker has not released a full stand-up special on TV before, it’s finally happening this summer, exclusively on Netflix. Netflix announced today it’ll premiere Chris Tucker Live on July 10, 2015. The hour promises to include impersonations, physicality and experiences from …
Some 30 years after the magician team of Penn Jillette and Raymond Teller first mounted an off-Broadway show, the dynamic duo will return to New York City for a summer run at the Marquis Theatre on Broadway from July 7 through Aug. 16, 2015. Penn & Teller currently are enjoying …
Walmart will pay out a $10 million settlement to the children of comedian James “Jimmy Mack” McNair, killed when a Walmart tractor trailer crashed into the SUV limo McNair was riding in last summer with Tracy Morgan and Ardie Fuqua along the New Jersey Turnpike. The Associated Press reported the …
Andrew Dice Clay is having another moment. Showtime announced today it has ordered six episodes of Dice, a semi-autobiographical single-cam series that’ll film in Las Vegas later this year and air in 2016. The pay-cable network already is set to premiere his latest stand-up special, Andrew Dice Clay Presents the Blue …
The Comedy Store’s lineup for Thursday night included a 15-minute window for a “Special Guest.” Turns out that guest may have been a very special two-fer — if you believed other websites this morning — as Arsenio Hall took the stage first, then afterward declared that Eddie Murphy — yes, …
