The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Despite proclamations last year that “pilot season” was dead or dying, it’s alive and well as we head into the final week of January 2015. After wrapping up a busy December in development deals, the world of “Maybe See TV” for the broadcast networks and cable channels has heated up. …
Dane Cook has a new manager now but a very old iconic mentor in his comedy life, although Cook has never been known as quite the troublemaker as Jerry Lewis has been over the decades. That’s not why Cook’s latest stand-up special, “Troublemaker,” which premieres on Comedy Central this Sunday …
Kyle Kinane is trying to help his feature act, “my friend Shane Torres, who’s driving the Mazda 2 Snatchback,” find their way to their gig Thursday night in Hamden, Conn., as Kinane also is on the phone to speak with The Comic’s Comic. It’s that kind of multi-tasking that also …
Nick Guerra may have made an even better first impression with NBC than he thought. Last summer, you saw Guerra shine in his early auditions for Last Comic Standing. Last night, NBC announced he’d won the network’s separate contest, called StandUp NBC (formerly Stand-Up For Diversity). His prize is a …
NBC has announced the 10 finalists for the first edition of the network’s NBC Playground, an open competition to seek out new voices for primetime broadcast sitcoms. Entries that advanced after submitting initial introduction videos, sitcom pitches and the required application are: Jeff Galante (Los Angeles) Tyler Hall (Brooklyn) Melissa …
The cast of Bob’s Burgers is heading back out on the road for a formal spring tour, with eight dates in eight cities lined up so far in mid-to-late March through the Midwest and Northeast Corridor. The fifth season began earlier this winter on Sunday nights, and FOX just renewed …
Justin Bieber turns 21 on March 1, and what music superstar idol turned rapscallion and ne’er-do-well wouldn’t want to be given a dose of comeuppance by famous funny people? That’s the idea behind Comedy Central’s announcement this week that Bieber will star as the next victim of its celebrity roasts. …
Louis CK already has his next stand-up special in the can as he continues to take victory laps around Madison Square Garden, adding a fourth show for next week. As he wrote to fans, “I mean, if you keep buying the tickets, I have to keep doing the shows. My …
Remember when CBS announced two months of guest hosts for The Late Late Show to kick off 2015 and couldn’t seem to find a single woman capable enough to carry out the duties by herself? Well, consider that rectified. Whitney Cummings is a new addition to the guest-host rotation, taking …
The second episode of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central took off the gloves, “Kept it 100” as Wilmore wants us to turn into a catchphrase, and left no doubt that Wilmore believes Bill Cosby is guilty of serial rape of dozens of women over the past …
