The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
Dave Chappelle turned a local pavilion in his Ohio town into his personal performance venue during the pandemic, and right out of the gate last month, he addressed the Black Lives Matter protests that sprung up in the wake of the death of George Floyd at the knees of the …
If you want to know why Hannah Gadsby’s 2020 Netflix special is called Douglas, there’s reasons more than the basic one she gives about her dog. As she explains: If you want to know why she’s following up Nanette at all, after declaring she was done with comedy? Gadsby said …
HBO has found success in the past year with having stand-up comedians go back home with a documentary camera crew in tow to fill in and flesh out the details of jokes and allow the audience to embrace the comedian even more. Gary Gulman. Whitmer Thomas. Now Yvonne Orji, whom …
