The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The comedy game show that earned “POINTS!” for its comedians by mocking memes and daily headlines will end its run on Comedy Central after 600 episodes. @midnight with Chris Hardwick debuted Oct. 21, 2013, in a trial run for Comedy Central, and earned not only multiple renewals, but also multiple …
Late-night TV talk show hosts love digging up old clips from a celebrity guest’s early career, but this clip Jimmy Kimmel Live found of Billy Crystal is extra special. As ABC prepares to reboot Battle of the Network Stars, Kimmel showed Crystal a clip from the classic years in the …
The Simpsons may have broken many TV records and earned all of the plaudits, fans, memes and podcasts over the years, but another animated comedy of the early 1990s broke all of the rules and inspired a generation of funny people. I was in college when my friends and I …
Dylan Brody started his stand-up career in New York City while still a teenager in the early 1980s, performing on multiple TV showcases, writing monologue jokes for Jay Leno when Leno was still just guest-hosting The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson, and he has performed around the world. In more recent …
The 35th annual Just For Laughs, or Juste Pour Rire (Pour les Français), kicked off on Wednesday in Montreal, and while there may only be a few Americans performing there this weekend (Jessica Kirson, Steve Byrne and Vlad Caamano in The Ethnic Show, hosted by Alonzo Bodden), hundreds of comedians from …
If you’ve got a script or a series pitch sitting around in your files, but dearly want to put it in front of the producers, suits and creative executives to make it on the TV, then you’ve still got time to submit it for the 2017 ITVFest. Not much time, …
D.J. Demers was back on Conan on Thursday night, but now the Canadian has gone American. He’s still hearing impaired, but he’s all ours now. When he takes his hearing aids out, that abruptly changes his relationship with his girlfriend and everyone around him. Roll the clip.
FOX has used recent summers to test out shows for potential syndication in both daytime and late-night, with The Wendy Williams Show and Page Six TV being the most notable success stories so far. In between, Real Housewives of New York‘s Bethenny Frankel also earned a talk show this way, …
Episode #6 of my exclusive Laughly audio series, On Second Thought, is out now with featured guest Liam McEneaney. On Second Thought asks: If tragedy plus time equals comedy, then comedy plus time equals what now? Liam McEneaney hosted one of the more popular alternative basement comedy rooms in New York City …
I’ll get into all of this in detail later, but for now, just the facts, ma’am. Here are your nominees in the comedy categories for the 69th annual Emmy Awards, to be handed out live Sept. 17, 2017, on CBS. Full list here Comedy Series Atlanta (FX) black-ish (ABC) Master of …
