The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Julio Torres is a comedian originally from El Salvador who’s made it not only all the way to Brooklyn, but also to a writing job on Saturday Night Live. He’ll perform a half-hour special for Comedy Central this year, but first, here’s a short but sweet set from Tuesday’s Late …
Iliza Shlesinger has made no secret of her desire to join the ranks of late-night talk show hosts. Come May, she’ll have her chance, starting with a six-week trial run of Truth & Iliza on Freeform. “I’m so grateful to Freeform for inviting me to create a show that occupies …
I saw Louis C.K. perform at the end of his current tour in Boston and came away from that performance both thankful for the opportunity to see him live in a theater instead of an arena or a drop-in short set at a club, and looking forward to reviewing the …
Red Eye, the late-night comedy and politics roundtable hosted in recent years by stand-up Tom Shillue, has reached its final destination. FOX News confirmed the show was ending this week, to be replaced by reruns. Greg Gutfield originally hosted Red Eye, which aired at 3 a.m. Eastern (midnight Pacific), and …
Comedy Central isn’t making the same mistake thrice. After letting former stand-out correspondents such as John Oliver and Samantha Bee leave The Daily Show for their own starring vehicles on HBO and TBS, Comedy Central will hold onto Jordan Klepper, giving him the plum post-Daily Show half-hour, starting weeknights this …
The Late Late Show with James Corden just celebrated hitting 10 million subscribers for its YouTube channel, and now the CBS late-night talk show is crossing another barrier. The show will cross the pond for a week of shows this June in Corden’s hometown of London. Specifically, broadcasting three special …
Funny or Die has its hands in multiple projects on both the small screens of TV and the big movie screens. Brockmire premieres on IFC this week after first appearing as a single video on Funny or Die. The company also launched and produces @midnight on Comedy Central, Billy on …
Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, there were two places to go to find the best sketch comedians and improvising funny people in America: The Second City in Chicago and The Groundlings in Los Angeles. Gary Austin put The Groundlings on the map, founding the sketch and improv troupe …
Finally! Continuing in Comedy Central’s grand tradition of producing groundbreaking late night formats, comes The President Show. Just like a certain chief executive in Washington, The President Show gleefully tosses out the rulebook of its predecessors. Created by Anthony Atamanuik who hosts as Donald J. Trump, and produced by Clone …
Jay Chandrasekhar has spent the past two decades writing, directing and acting in film and television. With his group Broken Lizard, he has co-written, co-starred and directed their feature films, Super Troopers, Beerfest and Club Dread. He’s also directed the big-screen version of Dukes of Hazzard, small-screen episodes of Arrested …
