The Definitive Guide to Comedy
TBS hasn’t been keeping up really up to date on voting from the first two weeks of head-to-head comedy videos for its first-ever Tournament of Laughs competition. But with barely an hour before broadcast of week three, obviously the comedians had to know if they were submitting new videos. And …
Tonight many of Boston’s old-school comedy legends will reunite online to perform and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Ding Ho, and in doing so, honor the late Barry Crimmins and raise money for his widow, Helen. The show starts at 7:30 p.m. Eastern. Crimmins started live comedy shows at …
The COVID-19 pandemic sent Conan O’Brien home in March and his TBS Conan crew out of its Burbank studios on the Warner Bros. lot. In July, Team Coco is returning to a stage. Just not in Burbank. Instead, starting July 6, CONAN will start broadcasting from the historic Largo at the Coronet in …
Before Phil Lord and Chris Miller made the Lego movies, or sent Spiderman into the Spider-Verse, or wondered what life would be like for The Last Man on Earth, they co-created and animated Clone High. Now MTV, which originally aired Clone High in 2002-2003, has summoned Lord and Miller and …
This escalated quickly. Comedians only just realized a couple of months ago that they could adopt drive-in movie technology to perform live stand-up shows safely during the COVID-19 pandemic. Now Comedy Dynamics already has lined up four drive-in shows that the company will film for upcoming specials. It’s all part …
Is a new generation ready for Beavis and Butt-Head? It won’t be the MTV Generation, but whomever is watching Comedy Central these days. Comedy Central announced a deal with Mike Judge to reimagine Beavis and Butt-Head. The deal also calls for additional spin-offs and specials. From the press release: Launched …
Almost 50 years after their first album together, Cheech Marin and Tommy Chong are still in business together, and now in the weed dispensary business! Cheech & Chong have announced plans to enter into a dispensary license with Five Point Holdings Inc. to develop a five state dispensary chain. Five Point Holdings …
HBO has renewed the Emmy and Golden Globe-winning comedy series Curb Your Enthusiasm, starring Larry David, for an eleventh season. “This past season tapped into the zeitgeist in such an uncomfortably delightful way,” said Amy Gravitt, Executive Vice President, HBO Programming.. “Larry is already busy writing, and we can’t wait to see what …
After a Showtime debut and four follow-up specials on HBO, George Lopez has made the leap to Netflix. Why? Is it the money? We’ll Do It For Half, Lopez jokingly calls his special. Much of it is a reintroduction to Lopez and his family and his Latino and Mexican culture. …
This is a full-on variety show, as Jo Koy traveled to the Philippines with a breakdancer, Ronnie; a Grammy-winning producer, !llmind; singer/songwriter Iñigo Pascual; and comedians Andrew Lopez, Joey Guila, and Andrew Orolfo to Manila, showcasing Filipino-American talents in the Philippines, while also showcasing them to the world. It’s better …
