Dwayne Perkins on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
What’s in a baby name? Your entire future, possibly. Dwayne Perkins explains and offers a solution in his debut performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Roll the clip!
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Comedy Central announces new YouTube channel for its webseries, CC Originals, plus web-only special for Emily Heller
The Comedy Central Originals YouTube channel officially went live today. It’s where you can now find all of the network’s webseries and digital one-off content. Coinciding with this CC-change, the network also announced it’s premiering Emily Heller’s first one-hour special, Ice Thickeners, this Friday exclusively online via the recently launched …
“Mad About You” revival is a go, but for Spectrum cable
Another Must-See-TV NBC hit sitcom from the 1990s is making a comeback, but Mad About You‘s revival isn’t happening on NBC. Instead, the reunion of Paul Reiser and Helen Hunt will show up on Spectrum Originals. What’s that, you may ask if you don’t live somewhere that has Spectrum (aka …
Netflix announces special tribute to “Laugh-In”
Get ready to sock it to yourself once more! Netflix is gathering a bunch of comedy stars this coming Friday in Hollywood to tape Still LAUGH-IN: The Stars Celebrate, a 50th anniversary tribute to Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In aired on the TV from 1968-1973, and won …
Episode #249: Lyric Lewis
A classically trained theater major who grew up in New Orleans and Minnesota’s Twin Cities, Lyric Lewis took her degree from Syracuse and headed straight for Hollywood, where she auditioned for The Groundlings. Over the course of several years, Lewis worked her way up the ranks, eventually reaching the cast …
John Mulaney’s very New York City episode of Saturday Night Live
John Mulaney hosted his second Saturday Night Live this weekend, and made sure it very much centered on its and his home of New York City. Straight from the monologue, which referenced specific cross streets, the sounds of the subway system, new police sirens, and a Woody Allen sighting. Mulaney’s …
Best of the rest of the fests: Comedy Festivals for 2019-2020
We’re already two months into 2019, and if you haven’t already made use of my Comedy Festivals page, please bookmark it for your resources. If you need to know how festivals are coming in time-wise, well, please allow me to sort that information for you here now! MARCH 2019 Brisbane …
Just For Laughs revises plans for SiriusXM radio channel to showcase only Canadians
Your voices were heard loud and clear, comedians of Canada. Just For Laughs announced Wednesday that their impending takeover of the Canada Laughs channel of SiriusXM radio will now be called Just For Laughs Canada, “and it will showcase 100 percent Canadian content.” Bruce Hills, JFL’s president, released the statement …
Freestyle Love Supreme opens Academy to offer improv comedy training
There’s a new school in town for aspiring comedy improvisers. And it comes courtesy of the hip-hop musical comedy troupe Freestyle Love Supreme, best known for what its co-creator Lin-Manuel Miranda and director Thomas Kail have gone on to accomplish on Broadway. Now they’re ready to train the next generation …
Review: Tone Bell, “Can’t Cancel This” on Showtime
In real life, Tone Bell’s not engaged nor married yet, but just like in Fam, he’s the product of a happily-married couple. Being an adult only child, with no kids of his own, might make Christmas awkward, but it allows Bell to lavish himself with all of the things he couldn’t …