The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Happy Birthday to Kenan Thompson! Thompson, 41 today and the longest-tenured cast member ever on Saturday Night Live, will add a primetime sitcom to his resume. NBC has ordered The Kenan Show. He began his TV career as a teenager with Nickelodeon’s sketch comedy series, All That. Thompson joined SNL …
Determined to learn from past mistakes, Comedy Central has launched a new Comedy Central Productions unit to develop new and existing in-house talent. As Jon Stewart departed The Daily Show, the cable network watched as many of his potential successors also fled, from John Oliver (HBO), Stephen Colbert (CBS), Samantha …
Rose Matafeo, a rising comedy star from New Zealand who won the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s top prize last summer, made her U.S. TV debut as a stand-up Thursday night on Conan. Check her out!
Andy Sandford thinks perhaps children shouldn’t have such unrealistic expectations for their adulthood, as he joked in this performance on The Late Late Show. Jet packs? College degrees? Mountain Dew for life? Let’s get real. Roll the clip!
With the departure of hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory this month, CBS is looking far and wide for new comedies to break through this fall. So congrats to comedians Billy Gardell, Natasha Leggero, Sabrina Jalees, Rob Corddry, Michaela Watkins and more for joining the Eye Network’s new primetime lineup! …
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt wrapped its fourth and final season this January on Netflix, but the streaming giant isn’t ready to say goodbye once and for all just yet. An interactive special is forthcoming, ordered up for 2020. The comedy series stars Ellie Kemper, Tituss Burgess, Jane Krakowski, and Carol Kane. …
The lawsuit by a San Diego man claiming Conan O’Brien’s TBS late-night show stole jokes from his Twitter for Conan’s monologue has settled out of court, shortly before going to trial. O’Brien wrote about the decision to settle in an essay today in Variety, saying in part: “I decided to …
truTV is continuing to add new series from stand-up comedians, announcing two new orders today: This Functional Family from comedian Jo Koy (truTV’s first animated series), and Game Changers from Clayton English and Noah Gardenswartz. Koy’s This Functional Family gets a 10-episode order, expected to premiere in 2020. At the …
Colin Quinn has done Broadway, HBO and Netflix. For his next trick, his new comedy special is premiering on CNN. Red State Blue State debuts Memorial Day (Monday, May 27) at 9 p.m. Eastern and 9 p.m. Pacific on CNN. It’s not completely out of character for the Cable News …
The legendary Punch Line comedy club on San Francisco’s Battery Street will be kicked out when its lease is up this August. The club confirmed the news late Tuesday. “We’re currently in search of a new home to preserve our decades-long tradition of entertaining comedy fans in San Francisco and …
