The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Christian Finnegan has reached the ripe old age of 46, which as he explained on The Late Late Show, isn’t quite so ripe any longer. Much like the good-intentioned vegetables you sometimes buy at the grocery store. Roll the clip!
Here’s something new and different. David Spade dedicated a segment of his new late-night show on Comedy Central to a new stand-up comedian. Meet Lara Beitz. Roll the clip! It’s uncensored!
Comedy Central still has one of the 2 Dope Queens lined up for 2020. The network today announced a 10-episode order for a talk show fronted by Phoebe Robinson, featuring one-on-one interviews with headliners across pop culture. “This show will hit that sweet spot between educational and charmingly ignorant,” said Robinson. …
Sorry, Ismo fans. NBC’s Bring The Funny judges Kenan Thompson, Chrissy Teigen and Jeff Foxworthy winnowed the field for this initial comedy competition down in half again on the second round of “comedy clashes.” They chose Erica Rhodes over Ismo. They preferred young Michael Longfellow over Calvin Evans. They sided …
The Tribeca TV Festival, Sept. 12-15, 2019, will mark its year three with a 25th anniversary celebration of Friends, with two episodes curated by executive producers Marta Kaufman, David Crane, and Kevin Bright, who will participate in a post-screening conversation. Other highlights include the series finale of Amazon Prime Video’s groundbreaking Transparent; Tribeca Talks conversations with Hasan Minhaj and …
Soon the world will know the greatness of New Zealand’s Rose Matafeo. HBO Max and BBC Three will partner up to broadcast Matafeo’s next TV project, Starstruck, which she created, writes and will star. Starstruck will follow twenty-something Rose (Matafeo), a millennial in London, juggling two dead-end jobs and navigating the …
Nathan Fielder, whose writing team won this year at the WGA Awards for comedy/variety sketch series for the final season of Comedy Central’s Nathan For You, is heading to HBO. Fielder’s HBO deal includes starring in an upcoming comedy pilot, as well as executive producing an upcoming series, How To…With …
Emmy Award- and Golden Globe-nominated actor and comedian Denis Leary (Rescue Me, Animal Kingdom) will star in FOX’s upcoming limited series, A MOODY CHRISTMAS, scheduled to air this December on FOX. In the single-camera, holiday-themed event comedy, Leary will play Sean Moody, Sr., the beloved patriarch of the Moodys, a …
Robert De Niro, Blake Griffin, Caitlyn Jenner, Joel McHale, Debra Messing, Chris Redd, and Jeff Ross will join Roast Master Sean Hayes on the dais for the Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin. It tapes Sept. 7 at the Saban Theatre in Los Angeles and will premiere on Sunday, Sept. 15 at …
We’ve reached the live primetime quarterfinals of America’s Got Talent, and 34 acts remain in contention for the 2019 title, and $1 million gig in Vegas. Among them: comedian Greg Morton, a 60-year-old Canadian who has performed in Vegas before. His speciality is impersonations from popular movies. Find out Wednesday …
