The Definitive Guide to Comedy
America’s funniest home videos have a new place to earn their amateur filmmakers some laughs and some money. GSN, aka the Game Show Network, has announced it has ordered Caroline & Friends to launch this summer. Hosted by comedian Caroline Rhea, this game show will find Rhea and two of …
The legend of John Candy lives on in the spirits, hearts and minds of funny Canadians and comedy lovers everywhere. And now, the comedy festival in Canada’s capital city has begun handing out annual awards in his name, with the first recipients of the Candy Comedy Award being Andrea Martin …
Rachel Bloom is the creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on The CW, for which she has won the Golden Globe and the Critics Choice Award for best actress in a comedy series. Bloom’s first big break in musical comedy came in 2010, when she made a music video celebrating …
Joe List performed on Friday night’s Tonight Show, and reminded us all how body-shaming didn’t used to have a name, his routine at the gym, and an awkward moment in a hotel hot tub. At least List makes the most of it! You can watch a whole half-hour from List on …
Congrats to the comedians and funny writers named today to NBC’s Late Night Writers Workshop, an annual program “focused on exposing talented sketch and comedy writers to NBCUniversal’s late night & alternative line-up and readying them for a staff writer position.” Alumni include Chelsea Davison (“The Opposition with Jordan Klepper”), …
When John Oliver’s announced his staff at HBO’s Last Week Tonight had made a parody of a children’s book about Vice President Mike Pence’s family rabbit, making the rabbit’s story about gay marriage instead, Oliver didn’t expect it’d actually sell as well as it did. “A Day in the Life …
Adam Cayton-Holland performed Thursday on The Late Late Show with James Corden and filled us in on how his life has changed since getting married a year ago. Too many dogs. Not enough rhymes. Roll the clip. Cayton-Holland has a brand-new comedy album out now. Buy it here!
Tim Jones, a regular at The Comedy Store throughout the 1980s comedy boom and into the 1990s, has died. Jones, a native New Yorker, headed west to Hollywood like many comedians in the 1970s. On the East Coast, he’d been a news writer for a local NBC station. “I wanted to …
April Fool’s Day will be the worst prank ever for fans of Meltdown Comics and the NerdMelt Showroom for comedy inside of it. The joint is closing for good on March 30, 2018. We are very sad to announce the closure of the NerdMelt Showroom starting March 30th. Thanks to …
That Hilarity For Charity fund-raiser I told you about last fall that would be presented on Netflix? Yeah, that’s still happening. Now with an official lineup and release date. Roll the clip! The event films this Saturday at the Hollywood Palladium, with a lineup including Tiffany Haddish, Sarah Silverman, Michelle Wolf, …
