The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you want to see what happens when a porn site puts on a comedy show, now’s your chance! “Brazzers Presents: Comedy Spit Roast,” recorded in August at Dynasty Typewriter in Los Angeles, is up for free on YouTube. So it’s almost safe for work? But no. Definitely NSFW. Bob …
IFC has revealed its slate of potential new comedies in development for the coming year. They include: Almost Asian, about a perpetual outsider, Katie (Katie Malia, The Mindy Project), and her desperate journey to find her identity as both a dancer and a mixed-raced millennial struggling in Los Angeles. As with the web-series …
SiriusXM today announced that Amy Phillips, a comedian who impersonates the Real Housewives of Bravo, will now host her own show, Reality Checked with Amy Phillips, every weekday on SiriusXM’s Radio Andy channel. Her show will include her own parodies, plus recaps and interviews with reality TV stars. “My passion is my job …
“I just don’t want to be her age, playing her,” Tyler Perry said of his famous alter-ego, Madea, who has starred in six major motion pictures, with a seventh on the way in 2019. Perry broke the news earlier this week doing press for his latest movie, Nobody’s Fool, which …
Look, I know that’s a photo from 2016’s Schtick or Treat, but on the bright side, as the new curator of Comedy Listings for the Weekend Arts section of The New York Times, I got that in the newspaper, so let’s all celebrate! As for Schtick or Treat 2018, it …
Finally, Bob Saget can say what he really wanted to about some of the video clips submitted back in the day for ABC’s America’s Funniest Home Videos. ABC has ordered Videos After Dark for 2019. Saget, who hosted the first eight seasons of AFHV, will host and executive produce Videos After …
The new fall TV season still hasn’t introduced all of its new series, and already we have two new straight-to-series orders from the broadcast networks this month. FOX says all systems go for Bless The Harts, an animated comedy featuring the voices of Kristen Wiig, Maya Rudolph, Jillian Bell and …
When real life becomes even more ridiculous than satire, then what role is there for comedians to play? And how should comedians talk about serious issues while still keeping their senses of humor? Those are two of the questions I posed to comedians on the front lines of the discussion, …
In case you missed it, because like me, you stayed up all Friday night watching the Dodgers outlast the Red Sox, This Week at the Comedy Cellar premiered last night late-night on Comedy Central. At least six stand-up comedians appeared onscreen telling jokes before the full opening credits rolled, and …
Louie Anderson dropped by Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, and the comedian has some suggestions for making shopping for clothes easier or at least more enjoyable at big and tall stores. And yes, he’s still trying to eat right. Well, what’s right, exactly? Roll the clip!
