The Definitive Guide to Comedy
We knew that “Stephen Colbert” would interview President Barack Obama on Monday night’s The Colbert Report, but we didn’t know that Obama would upstage Colbert even earlier into his episode, taking over just as Colbert was about to deliver “The Word” segment. As the president said, “How hard could this …
With only eight shows left, “Stephen Colbert” is going out with a bang on Comedy Central these next two weeks, starting tonight with a field trip to Washington, D.C., to sit down with President Barack Obama. It’s been a long, strange, wonderful trip with The Colbert Report. And we’re all …
American audiences are just warming up to James Corden. Broadway fans already bestowed a Tony Award to Corden a couple of years ago, and Brits know him from sitcoms such as Gavin and Stacey and panel chats. This Christmas, Corden stars in the new season of The Wrong Mans on …
Laughs has earned a reprieve and then some, receiving an additional order for 20 late-night stand-up showcases that air on a group of FOX TV stations late Saturday and/or Sunday nights. It has been airing “remix” episodes with old and new bits the past few Saturdays after already having received …
After taking a year off, the Garden of Laughs all-star benefit show will return in 2015, with Lewis Black, Bill Burr, Dane Cook, Billy Gardell, and J.B. Smoove already confirmed to participate on March 28, 2015, at The Theater at Madison Square Garden. Steve Schirripa will host. It’s executive-produced by producer/manager Rory …
If you feel like Amazon Studios snubbed The Grawlix by not picking up their sitcom pilot to series, then feel good about today, because today, truTV kept hope alive. TruTV has ordered a reshoot of the pilot for Those Who Can’t, the sitcom Denver-based comedians Adam Cayton-Holland, Andrew Orvedahl and Ben …
Trevor Noah made his debut Thursday night as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and the South African stand-up comedian let his presence be known immediately by tricking Stewart with a game called “Spot the Africa.” Interesting times to compare the perspectives of the lives of black …
Chris Rock enjoyed a big weekend of press and publicity in advance of his already critically-acclaimed new movie, Top Five. Mo Rocca interviewed Rock for CBS Sunday Morning. And Frank Rich interviewed him for New York mag’s Vulture. Both are great. In both places, Rock drops the hint that’d he …
Imagine you’re Bill Cosby. You broke color lines, through racism to the most mainstream of success, consecutive Emmys and Grammys in the 1960s, starring in I-Spy and releasing hit stand-up album after hit stand-up album. You built a reputation of being the ultimate father figure, first with an animated classic …
CBS has figured out its guest-hosting plans for The Late Late Show for the first two months and one week in 2015, before James Corden officially takes the reins on Monday, March 9, 2015. Drew Carey — The Price is Right host for CBS who traded jobs with retiring host …
