The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Dave Smith is a native New Yorker and key member of the emerging new platform, GaS Digital Network. You’ve likely heard Dave as one-third of the Legion of Skanks alongside Big Jay Oakerson and Luis J Gomez, or as host of the podcast Part of the Problem, which combined receive …
Fans of 1970s nostalgia about the stand-up comedy scene in Hollywood rejoice! Showtime has picked up I’m Dying Up Here for a second season. From the press release: SHOWTIME is picking up its drama series about the art of comedy, I’M DYING UP HERE, for a second season, it was announced today …
Fans of Jon Stewart may still be lamenting his departure from The Daily Show some two years ago, but Comedy Central has gotten exactly what they sought when they replaced Stewart with Trevor Noah, appealing to the next generation of 18-34 year-olds. Since The Daily Show with Trevor Noah began …
Who says there aren’t opportunities for women in comedy on Adult Swim? A Craigslist ad appeared today offering $443 per day for a “SEXY FEMALE” with SAG-AFTRA union card between the ages of 25-55, “any ethnicity,” who’s willing to wear “bondage attire” and walk “a man on a leash like …
Anything Google’s YouTube can do, Facebook can do, too, and keep it and you confined within Facebook. That seems to be the strategy, if there has been one, to Facebook’s video strategy over the past few years, starting with its own proprietary video platform, to the launch of Facebook Live …
A few days before the 50th anniversary of the premiere of The Carol Burnett Show on CBS, the Eye Network has announced plans to broadcast a two-hour primetime special tribute to Burnett and her funny friends, to air this December. The Carol Burnett 50th Anniversary Special will air from 8 …
In case you missed it, HBO’s VICE News recently took a look at joke theft through the prism of an ongoing lawsuit by a Twitter user named Robert Alex Kaseberg, who alleges Conan O’Brien and his Team Coco staff on TBS stole jokes from him for use in his monologues. …
Martin Urbano made his late-night TV debut Wednesday on Jimmy Kimmel Live, and this year’s “New Face” made quite an impression on the audience, even if they don’t know where exactly his family is from still. Roll the clip!
Preacher Lawson doesn’t think being single is fun. Lawson joked in his semifinal performance for America’s Got Talent that the longer he remained single, the lower his standards fell. He remains proud of his big lips, though. Find out Wednesday if Lawson advances to the finals. Roll the clip!
For her semifinal performance on Tuesday’s episode of America’s Got Talent 2017, young ventriloquist Darci Lynne had her puppet Edna serenade judge Simon Cowell by singing, “You Make Me Feel (Like A Natural Woman).” Will it be enough to send Lynne to the finals? Tune in tonight to find out! …
