The Definitive Guide to Comedy
I’m Dying Up Here may have died after two seasons on Showtime, but the pay cable network is going directly to the source material for a new four-part docu-series about The Comedy Store and its late great owner Mitzi Shore. This is not news to anyone who has visited the …
Congrats to the seventh class of comedians chosen to participate earlier this month in NBC’s Late Night Writers Workshop: Jill Cepela, Dylan Eshbaugh, Shenovia Large, Alexandria McCale, Mona Mira and Chloe Radcliffe. They were picked from 1,000 applicants to participate in an intensive five-day program at 30 Rock designed to …
Sara Schaefer is a critically acclaimed stand-up comedian, writer, and producer currently based in Los Angeles. She was the co-host of MTV’s late-night show Nikki & Sara Live, which was born out of a podcast she started with Nikki Glaser in her Brooklyn apartment. Sara has won two Emmy awards …
A new book about West Hollywood’s notorious Sunset Strip hotel for superstars goes into deep details about the night comedy star John Belushi died from drugs. The Castle on Sunset: Life, Death, Love, Art, and Scandal at Hollywood’s Chateau Marmont by Shawn Levy describes Belushi’s final week at the hotel, …
Volodymyr Zelensky played the Ukrainian president on TV from 2015 to 2019, and now he’s just been elected the actual president. Zelensky won last week’s national election with 73.2 percent of the vote, defeating the incumbent Petro Poroshenko. He won on the Servant of the People party ticket, created in …
Leonard Ouzts co-stars in the new NBC sitcom Abby’s, and on Thursday night, he performed stand-up on The Tonight Show to explain how much he learned from gaining a white friend in childhood. Roll the clip!
Jon Rudnitsky performed stand-up on Conan on Thursday night, or rather, showed us how much he’s jealous of theater actors and quarterbacks for what they can do onstage, and shows us exactly what he means by that. Roll the clip.
FUSE, the cable network that first broadcast Billy Eichner, is bankrupt. Fuse Media has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection. The company fell on hard times, getting dropped from major cable systems such as Comcast and Verizon Fios, and missing loan payments. FUSE launched in 2003, inhabiting the space formerly …
Craig Ferguson and Comedy Dynamics have teamed before to produce his stand-up specials, as well as a History Channel series. For their next trick, they’re turning Ferguson’s recent Hobo Fabulous tour into a six-episode series that’ll combine stand-up footage with tour documentary. “I am not a fan of the bands …
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons is coming to ABC as a 90-minute primetime special, thanks not just to Lear and Jimmy Kimmel, but also Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Brent Miller, and Justin Theroux. Kimmel and Theroux first announced the plan …
