The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jerry Seinfeld continues to generate massive amounts of free publicity and news coverage for his webseries, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, that puts all other comedian podcasts and webseries to shame, leaves them in the dust, has them crying for mercy. And yet, for all of his fame and fortune, …
The secret to comedy, of course, is TIMING. Whether it’s knowing when it’s too soon or when tragedy plus time equals comedy, or the actual pacing of your vocal delivery, a good joke can either flail or fly based on when it lands in your eyes and ear holes. So …
FOX is having such a tough fall already that the network is sending itself back to school, reviving the game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? with host Jeff Foxworthy in time for primetime in 2015. “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? shares so much DNA with …
It’s labeled as an infomercial, but Too Many Cooks is unlike anything else you’d see as paid advertising on your TV at 4 a.m., let alone any of the other parody informercials that Adult Swim previously aired in its late-night programming block on Cartoon Network. If anything else on Adult …
Erik Rivera may not have turned his development deal last year with Eva Longoria into a network TV sitcom, but his relationship with Jennifer Lopez did net him his first hourlong stand-up special. Erik Rivera: I’m No Expert premieres Saturday on NUVOtv. No, not that kind of relationship. Rivera is …
Move over, Real Househusbands of Hollywood. Rob Stapleton and Charlie Murphy want to pitch you, BET or other TV channels out there, an actual reality series following the lives of stand-up comedians. Here’s their presentation video for Comics Turnt Up, with footage from Caroline’s, The Laugh Factory and elsewhere as comedians …
As part of @midnight‘s weeklong sojourn to New York City, host Chris Hardwick has enlisted several local comedians and comedic actors to lend their Big Apple expertise to the game show. Here’s Dave Hill sitting in as the show’s “food critic” with a review of Guy Fieri’s Times Square restaurant …
BAZINGA! TBS has a new president and chief creative officer in Kevin Reilly (recently head of FOX), but it’s an old warhorse of a sitcom that has put TBS ahead of everyone else in basic cable — including its own original series — in terms of viewers. The Big Bang …
The Friars Club announced today that it’ll roast Terry Bradshaw for its first sports-themed Friars Club Roast on ESPN2. The Friars Club Roast of Terry Bradshaw will happen Jan. 29, 2015, at the Arizona Biltmore Hotel in Phoenix, and air as an hourlong Super Bowl Week special the following night …
Must-See Thursdays were how long ago, now? NBC has decided to scrap another lineup of new Thursday night sitcoms, halting production on both Bad Judge and A to Z in a Halloween massacre after both rookie shows failed to reach even a 1.0 rating among adults 18-49 last night. Last …
