The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Does this count as a Christmas miracle? Last Comic Standing is back on track for a ninth season probably coming to your TVs in summer 2015, with an actual premiere date and time slot still to be determined by NBC. “We are having final casting showcases in January at the …
Starting your final episode with a showstopping all-star musical number, and closing with an homage to three classic TV finales plus a callback to your first big break in American TV: Well, Craig Ferguson never did want to play by the rules or traditions of television, anyhow. He wanted to …
American hero “Stephen Colbert” closed out his nine-year run of hosting The Colbert Report with one final edition of “The Word,” by cheating death (sorry, Grimmy), by inviting a who’s who of who’s that to sing along with him to the tune of “We’ll Meet Again,” and then by flying …
The Late Late Show on CBS will have its first-ever in-house musical bandleader when James Corden debuts in March 2015, and it’s none other than one-man musical genius Reggie Watts! Watts comes with plenty of mock-talk show experience as the bandleader on IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang! with Scott Aukerman, which …
TLC has announced a new weekly late night talk show that’ll debut with six half-hour episodes in January that are All About Sex, anchored and co-hosted by comedians Margaret Cho and Heather McDonald, actress Marissa Jaret Winokur and Dr. Tiffanie Davis Henry. All About Sex debuts at 11 p.m. ET/PT …
They announced the nominees for Golden Globes in January 2015, hosted once more by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler. The awards show will be great fun. But once more, it’s time to remind everyone that the Hollywood Foreign Press Association doles out these recognitions with somewhat of an agenda, to …
MTV let us all know last night that Amy Schumer would host the 2015 MTV Movie Awards in the biggest and most direct way possible — by inviting Schumer to take over the cable network’s social media and announcing the news herself over Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, and Vine. Post by …
The final night of the official 2014-2015 TV season also will bid a fond farewell to Late Show with David Letterman, as Letterman, his Worldwide Pants production shingle and CBS announced today that his final broadcast would air May 20, 2015. “David Letterman has given to all of us a …
It’s been a big 24 hours for cable sitcom renewals, with two newcomers in particular — USA’s Playing House and truTV’s Friends of the People — earning season renewals with a little help from their friends and fans in the digital and On Demand spaces. Season 2 of Playing House …
MSG Network has announced that Four Courses with J.B. Smoove will return for a third season with 10 all-new episodes premiering Monday, January 19, 2015. Smoove hosts the half-hour talk show filmed around a table at Hudson Malone restaurant in New York City, as his fellow comedians, actors, athletes and …
