The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Casey James Salengo has his first half-hour coming out this fall on Comedy Central, but he made his network TV debut last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Salengo joked about growing up as “white trash” and what that really means, and trying to make sense of Bumble. Roll the clip.
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 …
After a 14-month break, The Chris Gethard Show is back in session. Same host. Same cast. Same set. Same band. Shannon O’Neill, Bethany Hall, The Human Fish, Vacation Jason, Murf and all haven’t left the building. But Gethard and his merry minions will now be broadcasting LIVE, and on a TV …
When Dave Chappelle hosted Saturday Night Live just after the presidential election, the iconic comedian urged the audience during his monologue to give Trump a chance. Fast-forward to Wednesday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and after six months in office, Trump’s chances have run out. Or have …
You can see Maz Jobrani on the new CBS sitcom, Superior Donuts, and hear about his life in Episode #91 of my podcast, Last Things First. Now he has just released his fourth solo stand-up special, and first for Netflix, called Immigrant. Jobrani recorded it in D.C. to help put …
Preacher Lawson has been a hit so far on the 2017 season of America’s Got Talent, and he also killed last week in Montreal as one of this year’s New Faces at Just For Laughs. Back on pre-taped NBC television, however, he was still in the running on the Judge …
In Tuesday night’s latest round of “Judge Cuts,” 23-year-old Daniel Ferguson sang impersonations of Marge Simpson, Gollum, and judge Howie Mandel’s Bobby cartoon. Was it enough to get him to the live shows, though? (no) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaOZSFte4sw
Comedy legend Carol Burnett, winner of multiple Emmys and Golden Globes, a Grammy, a Tony nomination, the Presidential Medal of Freedom, and the Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, hasn’t retired from comedy just yet. At 84, she starred in a sitcom pilot for ABC that almost got picked up, …
CBS All Access, the streaming platform for CBS, has announced its first exclusive sitcom for the network, and it’s an adaptation of an Australian series made by the funny folks at Funny or Die. No Activity will premiere before the end of 2017, bracketing the two chapters of the first …
Kenan Thompson was 15 when All That premiered on Nickelodeon in 1994. Now two decades and change later, Thompson (who now holds the record for longest-serving Saturday Night Live cast member) will reunite with the executives behind All That to front a new live-action sketch comedy show for even younger …
