The Definitive Guide to Comedy
So FOX has cancelled The Wanda Sykes Show, but according to its new fall lineup presented at the upfronts for advertisers and the press today, there's nothing scheduled yet to replace Sykes in the late-night Saturday slot. The network has two competing sketch shows vying for the 11 p.m. Saturday …
Rooftop Comedy announced its slate of nominees for its annual awards, to be handed out the week of June 14 at the site's Aspen Comedy Festival. And I got one! No, that's not why I'm writing this. Especially since I doubt I'll win seeing as I don't have a longstanding …
The nominations for the 37th Annual Daytime Emmys came out today, with eight nominations each for The Ellen DeGeneres Show and comedian-laden The Electric Company, plus three nods for the soon-to-be-cancelled Bonnie Hunt Show. Awards will be handed out June 27 in Las Vegas, televised on CBS. You can view the full …
As you may have heard/read, Comedy Central (LOGO or no LOGO) will not renew the Sarah Silverman Program for a fourth season. It hardly comes as surprise to anyone who was a fan of the show, as Silverman herself and her co-stars had gone to Twitter and other forums asking …
Here's one fool-proof way to figure out if your career is hot: If you have more movie deals than most of the nominees when you host the MTV Movie Awards ceremony, then you win! That's you, Aziz Ansari. Ansari already sold three movie pitches to Judd Apatow, but that didn't …
Denis Leary and his band The Enablers (featuring The Rehab Horns) have released a new single in advance of their Rescue Me Comedy Tour 2, which kicks off May 22 in Atlantic City. Guess what? He's still an a$$hole! The song, "F.U.", has Leary telling you off in no uncertain …
I've got some more dates and specials coming from Comedy Central in the next three months, and I thought it best to share them with you sooner rather than later. So here's what the network has planned for June-August 2010… JUNE 2010 "Tosh.0" — new season premieres 10:30 p.m. June …
Comedian W. Kamau Bell has been using PowerPoint presentations and brutally honest, cutting satire to show Americans for the past three years how we're racist now, and what we can do to end it in, oh, about an hour, with his one-man show, "The W. Kamau Bell Curve." Bell brings the …
TV Land picked a fine time to get into the original sitcom business, with Hot in Cleveland co-starring Valerie Bertinelli, Jane Leeves, Wendie Malick and Betty White. The series debuts June 16, and its first promo clip will air Saturday night during SNL as, guess who — Betty White — …
As cable and broadcast networks begin unveiling their upcoming new series, potential pilots and scripts in development for the fall 2010/spring 2011 season, it's good to sometimes take a step back to get a look at the bigger picture before getting too excited about any one development deal that may …