The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Here are the 15 finalists announced last week for truTV’s Comedy Breakout Initiative, designed to find new and distinct voices to join truTV’s existing roster of unscripted comedy-based formats, which is currently toplined by Impractical Jokers, but also features The Chris Gethard Show, Talk Show the Game Show, Comedy Knockout, …
For the first time in 25 years, original Mystery Science Theater 3000 host and creator Joel Hodgson will put on the red jumpsuit for a live tour with current MST3K host Jonah Ray as part of the MST3K Live 30th Anniversary Tour. Tickets went on sale last week via AXS.com and local …
Danny Jolles made his network and late-night comedy debuts on Friday night’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert. Jolles wanted to make a case for bros. Beer. Sports. Chicks. BROS! “Bros are the dogs of humans.” Let him explain. If you buy into that, then you’ll also want to hear him …
The Comedy Central Roast of Bruce Willis is a go! Joseph Gordon-Levitt, who co-starred with Willis as a younger version of him in Looper, will serve as the celebrity Roastmaster for the event, which tapes July 14 in Los Angeles, and will premiere on Sunday, July 29, 2018, on Comedy …
Fluffy can still fill arenas. The second of what will be at least three Netflix specials for stand-up comedian Gabriel Iglesias will tape on Sept. 13-14 in Houston when Iglesias performs at the Toyota Center. Tickets for these shows on his “One Show Fits All” tour go on sale Friday …
Nick DiPaolo had finished his headlining set Sunday night at Levity Live in West Nyack, NY, and was meeting with fans when a man said his daughter wanted to punch the comedian in the face, and before he knew it, the woman had done just that. “I was sucker punched,” …
Immigration is front and center of America’s conversation right now. The biggest, saddest immigration story is happening in Texas, where the Trump Administration is building new concentration camps for the babies and young children separated from their parents when they are captured trying to cross the border without papers. Kumail …
And now it’s official! Hot off the press release… SHOWTIME has ordered a weekly half-hour late-night series starring Desus Nice and The Kid Mero, scheduled for premiere in 2019. The first ever weekly late-night talk show on SHOWTIME will feature popular TV and podcast personalities Desus and Mero, speaking highly …
This is a special edition of Last Things First, recorded live during Clusterfest 2018 in San Francisco. Comedy Central was kind enough to ask me to host a series of Clusterfest panels for the media that they called fireside chats. In this session, I welcomed Sasheer Zamata, Roy Wood Jr., …
Sunday night was supposed to herald another big moment for Chris Hardwick’s TV career with the premiere of Talking with Chris Hardwick and his big-get guest, Donald Glover. But AMC pulled that episode, and the entire series, following allegations of sexual assault and abuse made by an ex-girlfriend of Hardwick’s …
