The Definitive Guide to Comedy
TBS announced today that it would not be renewing The Pete Holmes Show for a third cycle — a 13-week run ends on June 18, 2014, with all of the remaining episodes already pre-taped. It debuted last fall on a seven-week trial basis. The half-hour mix of monologue, sketches, edited …
Welcome back to Last Comic Standing! Or, as new host J.B. Smoove proclaimed near the top of Thursday night’s two-hour premiere on NBC: Smoove “I just want everyone to welcome back to a bigger, better, greater Last Comic Standing!” Hold for applause. What’s different now in season eight, four years removed …
“This job looks easy,” Norm Macdonald told Conan O’Brien, gesturing to O’Brien’s role behind the desk as host of Conan. “Do you have the chops to do it?” O’Brien asked Wednesday night. “I’ve been studying it like a Jesuit,” Macdonald said of the tasks required to host a late-night TV …
To one generation of comedy fans, he was a plucky kid from Philadelphia — a young gun of Sam Kinison’s “Outlaws of Comedy.” To another, he is a classic, high-energy road-dog headliner. On a recent podcast with his agent, Rich Super, Jimmy Shubert described himself as one of Super’s “very …
Kimmel went to Austin for SXSW. Conan went to Dallas for March Madness. Now Fallon will take his show on the road, first stop: Orlando. Orlando? Universal Studios Orlando, as in NBCUniversal (Studios), will play host to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon‘s first TV road trip for the week …
So who received invites to the televised comedy competition that is Last Comic Standing in 2014? Here are your Top 100 who auditioned for Season 8 of Last Comic. The season premieres Thursday on NBC. Not listed in order of finish or preference. Not yet, anyhow. How many of these …
It meant something to Roseanne Barr that her comedic peers were involved in the revival of Last Comic Standing after a four-year layoff. Season eight begins Thursday on NBC with JB Smoove hosting, Wanda Sykes executive producing, and Keenen Ivory Wayans and Russell Peters joining Barr as the three judges …
Can the variety show come back into our lives like a prodigal son or daughter? Can the networks give a variety show more than a just a single backdoor pilot episode to make itself at home with us? Whichever question is the better one, we did get to see the …
NBC’s reboot of Last Comic Standing debuts Thursday with a two-hour premiere and the promise of mentors for the top 10 finalists picked from the 100 invited stand-up comedian contestants. Wanda Sykes, one of the Last Comic executive producers, will show up on camera as one of the mentors for …
CBS Corp. President and CEO Les Moonves set the record straight — sort of — appearing on Bloomberg News on Thursday afternoon, responding to reports, rumors and innuendos regarding the future of Neil Patrick Harris and Joel McHale with CBS. Moonves said his previous meeting with NPH was a general …
