The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Ah, Sept. 13, 1993. We were all so much younger then. Can you believe nobody knew who Conan O’Brien was, nor did they give him much of a shot of holding onto Late Night after being named David Letterman’s successor? Long before Team Coco. Now they’ve finally wrested the digital …
Comedy Central will kick off a 273-episode, eight-day marathon airing of South Park on Sept. 19, leading up to the Season 22 premiere the following Wednesday night, Sept. 26. For more, click here!
Congrats to Nikki Glaser, named Wednesday as one of the celebrities competing this fall on ABC’s Dancing with the Stars! Glaser will be paired with Gleb Savchenko. Glaser posted yesterday on Instagram: “OH MY GOD YOU GUYS. I’m a cast member of Dancing With The Stars this season! It’s the …
Norm Macdonald’s publicity tour for his new Netflix talk show continues to make massive headlines. First, his interview with The Hollywood Reporter prompted SNL buddy Jimmy Fallon to cancel Macdonald’s scheduled appearance on Tuesday’s taping of The Tonight Show (with Macdonald in his Tonight Show dressing room to learn that …
Michael Palin, member of the legendary Monty Python comedy troupe, has been traveling around the world and filming it for television and film documentaries since 1980. But Palin has taken himself and cameras into North Korea just now for the first time, celebrating his 75th birthday in that secretive Communist …
You don’t have to go on TV to win a TV talent competition. NBC has its Stand Up for Diversity contest. And ABC has Discovers. The ABC Discovers digital talent contest is open from Sept. 10-24, 2018, and click over there to find comedian Akaash Singh lead you through a …
The New York Comedy Festival once again will kick off its weeklong celebration of comedy with an all-star fundraiser, the 12th annual Stand Up For Heroes, slated for Nov. 5 at the Hulu Theater inside Madison Square Garden. For 2018, the headlining acts will include Bruce Springsteen, Eric Church, along …
Norm Macdonald was supposed to go on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon today to promote his new Netflix talk show. But because of what Macdonald told The Hollywood Reporter in an earlier interview that published this morning, that ain’t happening. “Out of sensitivity to our audience and in light …
Sam Morril has an hour special debuting this weekend on Comedy Central, so check out his first set Monday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon to get a feel for his material. Morril has peed on the street from too much drinking, and also ridden in a bad …
Vicki Barbolak hopes to ride her “trailer nasty” schtick all the way to the finals of America’s Got Talent in 2018. For her semifinals performance live Tuesday night on NBC, Barbolak joked about dating, dieting and drinking. Will she make it to the finals? You can vote now and find …
