The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In case you missed it, you haven’t completely missed out yet: Lady Parts Justice raised more than $25,000 during a live online telethon called “Life is a Living Nightmare: A Telethon To Fix It.” Sarah Silverman joined LPJ co-founder Lizz Winstead to throw the telethon earlier this month, with appearances from Rachel …
Funny or Die’s No Activity will do even more with less, as CBS All Access has ordered a second season of the streaming series starring Tim Meadows and Patrick Brammall as cops waiting for nothing to happen. Season 1 guest stars included Mark Berry, Arturo Castro, Mackenzie Davis, Bridget Everett, …
The Upright Citizens Brigade will produce 10 weekly hours of fresh comedy for Nerdist and its Alpha streaming network. The UCB’s Don’t Think Productions will make the as-yet untitled series, which will include sketch comedy and other short-form pieces — similar, perhaps to The UCB Show that ran on Seeso. …
No sophomore slump for Comedy Central’s Clusterfest. The second annual comedy, music and arts festival planned for the first weekend in June will be headlined by Amy Schumer, The Lonely Island and both present and past hosts of The Daily Show in Trevor Noah and Jon Stewart. Clusterfest 2018 also …
Surprise! All that tamborine teasing on Netflix recently was a prelude to comedian Chris Rock dropping his first stand-up special for the streaming giant overnight tonight — fresh for you Valentines. Tomorrow. Tamborine. @netflixisajoke pic.twitter.com/RPVhPv5mmq — Chris Rock (@chrisrock) February 13, 2018 Emmy and Grammy award-winning comedian Chris Rock, who …
Goodbye dere. Marty Allen died on Monday in Las Vegas, from complications from pneumonia. Allen was 95. He was a favorite both on TV and in Vegas casinos for decades as the wild-eyed comedy partner of Steve Rossi. I spoke with Allen three years ago for his 93rd birthday. He …
Rachel Bloom and her Crazy Ex-Girlfriend pals put on some shows over the weekend in Connecticut and New York City, but why not let the rest of America get to hear them live, too, right? So get ready for that! From the press release out now: The cast of the …
Congratulations to Michelle Wolf! As reported first by The Hollywood Reporter, Netflix is giving Wolf her own weekly late-night talk show, to debut later this year. https://twitter.com/michelleisawolf/status/963111948127580160 Netflix canned Chelsea, but is getting back into topical talk this coming weekend with the launch of The Joel McHale Show with Joel …
Kevin Hart’s own SiriusXM channel, Kevin Hart’s Laugh Out Loud Radio, will debut this Wednesday on SiriusXM Channel 96, complete with the comedian’s own weekly talk show. Straight from The Hart, hosted by Hart alongside his co-hosts, the Plastic Cup Boys, will premiere Wednesday at 1 p.m. ET (10 a.m. …
It was another great night both for Jordan Peele and HBO as the awards season swung through the Writers Guild of America on Sunday night. Peele won for Original Screenplay for his first feature film, Get Out, while HBO played host to the writers for both Best Comedy Series, Veep, …
