The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Earlier this month, NBCUniversal finally let us in on what’s coming to the new Peacock streaming service this year. OK. Hold onto your hats. Peacock will launch in stages: April 15 just for Comcast’s Xfinity X1 and Flex Customers, then July 15 nationwide. And it’ll include payment tiers, from free …
Comedy Central is keeping Daniel Tosh around for another four seasons and more, with a new overall deal that includes at least 80 more episodes over four seasons of Tosh.0, plus a first-look deal for new scripted and unscripted development for Tosh as well as other talent. That means Tosh.0, …
Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim are coming back to Adult Swim in 2020 with a new multi-camera sitcom spoof, and they’re already celebrating with a live tour that just got back to the States from Australia. Beef House has five men (Tim Heidecker, Eric Wareheim, Ron Auster, Ben Hur, Tennessee Luke) and Eric’s wife, Megan, living under one roof. Each …
The Academy Awards may have snubbed Adam Sandler and Uncut Gems, but perhaps next year, they’ll see fit to award the Sandman and the Safdie brothers with an Oscar for short film for this gem. Goldman v. Silverman is a piece of Andy Kaufman-esque performance art, starring Sandler as a …
Nick Thune returned to The Tonight Show on Monday night to tell some jokes while playing the guitar, and then also got to sit for panel afterward.
The Grammys haven’t found a reason yet to not vote for Dave Chappelle, awarding him his third consecutive win for Best Comedy Album. This one is for the audio recording of his 2019 Netflix special, Sticks & Stones. Sorry, other comedians. You’ll have to hope Chappelle doesn’t release anything new …
Carmen Lynch is dating a guy with a child, and has jokes to share about that, as well as her awkwardly hot life as the child of parents who have been married as long as her boyfriend has been alive. Don’t worry. The math all checks out.
Demetri Martin used his late-night performance on The Late Late Show to promote his upcoming tour dates, despite being booked just to tell jokes. Jokes! You can find his tour dates here, by the way, in case you didn’t see them when Martin showed them to you on camera.
Most late-night talk-show chats are not designed to be newsworthy. Guests agree to come on to promote their new or next gigs, and the hosts are just happy to have a continuous flow of new guests to promote said gigs and fill up airtime and make us laugh or help …
Michael Palascak has been in a long-term relationship for six years, which makes him a little wistful for some alone time every once in a while. Which is difficult to describe to your partner? Palascak explores that, and jokes about going back to Illinois to perform on a police benefit, …
