The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Episode #4 of my new Laughly exclusive miniseries, On Second Thought, is out now with my guest Jackie Kashian. On Second Thought asks: If tragedy plus time equals comedy, then comedy plus time equals what now? We don’t have to go very far back to find Kashian already second- and third-guessing her …
Attention all aspiring TV show creators, screenwriters, directors and actors: Today is the deadline to submit for the 2017 New York TV Festival’s annual Independent Pilot Competition! You can submit online until midnight via Withoutabox. The NYTVF office at 121 W. 27th St., in Manhattan, also will be open until …
A couple of weeks after laying off most if not all of its original programming department, NBCUniversal’s digital comedy platform looks ready to part ways with its original programs for Seeso, too. My Decider colleague, Scott Porch, reported last night that Seeso had reached agreements to sell off two programs …
Chris D’Elia’s third hour of stand-up comedy, and second for Netflix, just came out. It’s called Man On Fire, as D’Elia references the Denzel Washington movie to remind us that we may all want to pretend we’re Denzel, but none of us are actually the stars of our own movie. …
Is Netflix giving everyone a comedy special in 2017? You may have feared or hoped that, after hearing country singer Brad Paisley announce he’s got one coming Aug. 15, 2017, but not to fear: Brad Paisley’s Comedy Rodeo features mostly stand-up comedians. And also Reba McEntire and David Hasselhoff. His …
You can hear even more of Big Jay Oakerson and Dan Soder riffing now than you thought possible before, as their SiriusXM talk show, The Bonfire, has expanded from two to four nights a week, starting yesterday. The daily show will now stream Monday through Thursday from 6 to 8 …
If you wondered why The Late Show went into repeats last Thursday and Friday, that’s because host Stephen Colbert flew to Russia for a long weekend of work, filming segments that Colbert announced he’d be showing all this coming week. Colbert had hoped his trip would be top secret, that …
Leslie Jones hosted the 2017 BET Awards on Sunday night in Los Angeles, and didn’t hold back on making fun of how old-school she is and was, from noting how she’s turning 50 later this year, and showing clips of her first TV credit from Comic View back in the …
Tom Rhodes has been obsessed with stand-up comedy since he was 12. As a teenager in Florida in the 1980s, he performed with fake IDs to get into the comedy clubs and won a contest that allowed him to perform at 19 at The Comedy Store in Hollywood. After stops in …
After a successful 19th annual Del Close Marathon, what else do the so-called UCB4 have left up their sleeves? How about Carnegie Hall? The co-founders of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre — Amy Poehler, Matt Besser, Ian Roberts and Matt Walsh — announced they’ll kick off the 20th anniversary of …
