The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
Julio Torres described himself as a Space Prince before casting himself as a Chocolate Prince in the surreal bilingual TV series, Los Espookys, which he co-created, co-wrote and co-stars in for HBO. Originally from El Salvador, Torres first moved to New York City to study at The New School. After …
On Wednesday nights this month, Comedy Central and SiriusXM are trying out a new half-hour interactive comedy program, The Trevor Moore Show, fronted by Moore. The premise? Moore, comedians, experts, internet folk heroes and the general public tackle some of the world’s most pressing, hot button issues, which Trevor must resolve …
“I nailed it. I gave these people a memory they will always cherish.” That’s the instant review by Ron Burgundy of his performance on Thursday night’s Conan. Wait. Wasn’t Conan O’Brien on vacation? Yes. Yes he was. But O’Brien would make an exception for longtime friend Will Ferrell, and Ferrell’s …
Stand-up comedian Mike Reynolds has died at the age of 60. Born Dec. 23, 1958, this Bayside Queens native New Yorker started in stand-up comedy while still in high school, becoming a regular at the Comic Strip on Manhattan’s Upper East Side by 1977. You can see him in this …
