The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The way TV viewing has shifted in my lifetime, I’m surprised more broadcast networks aren’t putting their best shows on Sunday nights. That said, there’s more to the story of NBC announcing five special Sunday night episodes of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon this fall. First, the facts. Fallon’s …
After performing a half-hour stand-up special on Comedy Central and writing a book on depression (How to Weep in Public: Feeble Offerings on Depression from One Who Knows), what came next for comedian Jacqueline Novak would bring her to her knees. So to speak. The actress Natasha Lyonne has presented …
Fresh off the debut of its weekly docuseries partnership with The New York Times, The Weekly, FX has announced five more docs coming to the cable network in the months ahead. One of them is about women in comedy. Here’s the official description from FX: WOMEN IN COMEDY For decades …
ABC is doing everything it can to keep Jimmy Kimmel happy in 2019. First, the network is letting Kimmel go “home” to Brooklyn once more this October during the week of Oct. 21, 2019, broadcasting from the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s Howard Gilman Opera House. Kimmel has broadcast from Brooklyn …
Your eyes have not deceived you. Season three of Atlanta has not returned to FX in 2019 like the cable TV network told you it would. But fear not! At the summer TCAs, the FX brass announced they’d reached a deal with Atlanta creator Donald Glover to produce a fourth …
After four episodes of “Open Mic” showcases of Bring The Funny, which winnowed the field of comedy acts from 40 down to 24, we are now into the first of the “Comedy Clash” episodes, which will reduce the competition in half. It’s still all a bit quick for audiences to …
Here, Julio Torres treats you to a sneak preview of his HBO special, My Favorite Shapes, which premieres Aug. 10. Take it away, Julio!
Jackie Fabulous said her Jamaican mother had never seen her perform stand-up comedy before, until she made it to the Judges Cuts rounds of America’s Got Talent 2019. She did mom proud by getting a standing ovation from the judges, kudos from guest judge Jay Leno, and a pass onto …
Shane Torres knows his name could have turned out a lot worse if his first name were Spanish and his last name Irish, and not the other way around. As Torres joked on The Late Show, he also finds himself making more odd noises as he gets older, and feels …
This year’s New York Comedy Festival, happening Nov. 4-10, 2019, will feature headlining performances from Nate Bargatze, Nicole Byer, Stephen Colbert, Comedy Bang! Bang!, Vir Das, Kathleen Madigan, Bill Maher, Demetri Martin, Norm McDonald, Trevor Noah, Randy Rainbow, Tom Segura, Benito Skinner, Jenny Slate, Kevin Smith and Jay Mewes, No …
