The Definitive Guide to Comedy
SeriesFest, the nonprofit organization dedicated to showcasing the best and boldest emerging voices in television, in partnership with Elysium Bandini Studios and Parallel Entertainment, personal management company, today announced the three finalists of this year’s “Storyteller Initiative,” a program created to discover original comedy writers. They are:Juiciful, written by Courtney Bush, Jake …
Despite the defensive stance the writers on The Simpsons took just weeks ago about their Apu problem, the white man who’s voiced Apu from the start has said he’s finally ready to stop doing so, based on hearing the complaints from the Indian-American community. Hank Azaria, appearing this week on …
Roast Battle grew from a weekly mock-off in The Belly Room of The Comedy Store to a multi-season series on Comedy Central. Boast Rattle, its friendlier parallel universe counterpart, now has grown from a monthly show in the basement of Union Hall in Brooklyn to a new monthly radio program …
You ever want to play Bingo and watch TV at the same time? Yeah, me neither. But IFC is betting a bunch of you bingo-lovers would just love to play bingo on TV, and so tonight, they’re doing just that, at 8 p.m. during the broadcast of Fast and the …
Say what you will about Kevin James. I did in my review of his new Netflix special, Never Don’t Give Up, over on Decider.com. No matter what you think of his comedy, or his choices of material (I can’t bring myself to watch Kevin Can Wait, although I have somehow …
It sounds like pure schtick, but it works great both as a touring stage act, as well as a collection of streaming episodes. I’m talking about The Honeymoon Stand Up Special on Netflix, which takes newlywed comedians Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher, finds them in the middle of their 2017 …
Greg Davies is and has been famous in Britain on the telly for decades now. Of course, if you’re not devoted to Britcoms, then you might not know who Davies is, or why we should care. So here’s the stats: Davies is almost 50, upward of six-foot-eight, and full-bodied. Most …
If you can get past all of the unnecessary dick jokes from the host, Seth Rogen’s Hilarity For Charity, which he actually co-presents on Netflix with actress Lauren Miller Rogen (whose mother has Alzheimer’s), there’s an interesting and special take on the comedy special going on here, with fund-raising for …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
Louie Anderson won an Emmy Award for his performance as Christine Baskets in FX’s Baskets. He previously won Emmys two decades earlier for his voiceover work in his own animated series Life of Louie. He’s also hosted Family Feud, made a memorable early splash in the Eddie Murphy movie Coming …
