FX orders Billy Crystal’s “The Comedians” to series
by FX just announced it’s bringing Billy Crystal back to primetime TV, as star of The Comedians, which has received an initial order of 13 episodes …
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This just in! 2014 American Comedy Awards adds “Concert Comic” category to differentiate from “Club Comics”
Just hours after voting closed overnight for the 2014 American Comedy Awards, the event has added a new category: CONCERT COMIC. And it’s a good …
Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda to reunite, star in new Netflix sitcom, “Grace and Frankie”
Netflix has announced a new 13-episode single-cam sitcom, Grace and Frankie, that reunites Lily Tomlin and Jane Fonda as “long-time rivals brought together by a …
GSN orders TV game-show edition of “Idiot Test” hosted by Ben Gleib
GSN announced today that stand-up comedian Ben Gleib will host at least 40 episodes of a new game show for the cable network based on …
Producing the new edition of The American Comedy Awards for NBC in 2014
The more comedy awards change, the more they stay familiar, if not completely within the family. Charlie Haykel of Don Mischer Productions executive produced The …
No foolin’: April 1 job swap highlights busy spring for Drew Carey, Craig Ferguson in all hours of TV
Drew Carey and Craig Ferguson have been a part of each other’s TV lives for close to two decades now, as stand-up comedians, sitcom co-stars …
60 Minutes profiles Bassem Youssef, Egypt’s political satirist
America has Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Egypt has Dr. Bassem Youssef. Big difference. Especially since the latter nation doesn’t have as …
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R.I.P. David Brenner (1936-2014)
David Brenner died today at his New York City home, with his family by his side. Brenner had been battling cancer. The stand-up comedian was 78. …
Billy Eichner, on turning “Man on the Street” interview into game show as performance art, in FUSE’s “Billy on the Street”
Funny or Die’s Billy on the Street with Billy Eichner — say that three times fast and you, too, may win a crisp dollar bill …
Jimmy Kimmel Live from Austin during SXSW 2014
Jimmy Kimmel is eating up the Texas-sized crowds in Austin as deliciously as he is the barbecue in its capital city of Austin, where he …