The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Over the past few years, Comedy Central has embraced the transition to digital consumption — first with releasing stand-up comedy albums in digital-only releases, and more recently with production and distribution of webseries that don’t make it onto the cable TV channel. Today, Comedy Central announced an internal restructuring of …
Comedy Gives Back will produce a 24-hour international digital telethon next month — with comedians such as Kevin Nealon, Dane Cook and Adam Devine seen above promoting it — in live comedy shows in New York City, Los Angeles, London and Sydney, and wherever you have a screen to livestream it via …
Watching the new fall season of network TV, it’s easy to forget that none of these shows exists in a vacuum. You may love or hate an individual sitcom or show, but its placement on the primetime schedule has as much to do with the politics of what else is …
Time is running out if you’re a stand-up comedian who’d like to win a trip to Switzerland this December to perform in the 2013 Montreux Comedy Festival… The festival happens this year from Dec. 4-10, 2013, at the foot of the Swiss Alps by Lake Geneva. You have 22 days …
Joan Rivers avoided a court hearing next week that would have put her in the hot seat over continuing to write and host E!’s Fashion Police while her writers remain on strike. That said, the strike continues? Here is what Rivers announced on Monday, via a joint statement with the …
A year after winning a late-night TV credit contest, Samuel J. Comroe has won a slightly bigger and older, if not also more prestigious prize, emerging victorious in the 2013 San Francisco Comedy Competition. The 38th annual stand-up contest hosted a slightly different finish this October, with one night, one …
Want a chance to visit Los Angeles and perform alongside Mindy Kaling, Ed Helms, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Rashida Jones, Max Greenfield, John Cho, and The Sklar Brothers? Don’t worry. You don’t have to write your own material: You’d be performing stories written by 5th graders. Make a $10 donation to the …
Ever watch a sitcom that’s set in New York City and obviously filmed in the city, that takes you out of the element once they move to a subway platform or train that’s equally obviously not part of NYC’s MTA system? Sure. Plenty of times. Turns out that fake NYC …
Congratulations to stand-up comedian John Mulaney, whose NBC pilot this year found a new life and a new home on FOX, as the latter network made a deal ordering Mulaney to series on Wednesday. It’s a semi-autobiographical multi-camera comedy, with at least six episodes to start, following Mulaney’s life as …
The former “King of Queens” is looking to regain his crown, or at least some title of TV sitcom nobility. Kevin James has signed a new TV development deal with Lionsgate. As first reported overnight by Deadline, that’s squarely so James can return to TV the way his fellow sitcom …
