The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 for its first season, to debut in 2015. Crystal plays a version of himself, essentially — “a superstar veteran comedian” — paired up with a …
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 thing, too. Because if you looked at the American Comedy Awards nominees for “CLUB COMIC” for more than a hot second, you quickly would have …
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 rather unusual change in their marital circumstances.” Tomlin and Fonda famously teamed up with Dolly Parton in the 1980 movie musical, 9 To 5. “Jane …
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 the popular mobile app game, “Idiot Test.” The game pits two pairs of contestants with pre-existing fan rivals of one sort or another against each …
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 Comedy Awards in 2011 and 2012 for Comedy Central and Viacom, and he’s back again in charge of the newly revamped American Comedy Awards, to …
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 and variety show hosts. Both funnymen are busier than ever this spring — Carey completed his first dance last night, the foxtrot, on ABC’s Dancing …
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 much of a sense of humor about political satire, or satire, or jokes of any kind, for that matter. Sunday’s 60 Minutes profiled Youssef, calling …
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. He is survived by his wife, Ruth; sons Cole, Wyatt and Slade; and grandson Wesley. Richard Lewis, a longtime friend of Brenner’s, said via Twitter …
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 from Billy! — returns tonight for a third season on Fuse. This season includes more celebrity guest stars, with Paul Rudd, Neil Patrick Harris, Amy …
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 kicked off a week of broadcasts Monday night taking ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on the road. “We are here for the South by Southwest Festival. …
