The Definitive Guide to Comedy
George St. Geegland and Gil Faizon finally open their Broadway run of “Oh, Hello” with previews tonight. Celebrate with highlights from their New York City press conference earlier this month, thanks to Funny or Die. Roll the clip! And if you want to hear the whole thing, you may have …
The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, which began as a weekly stand-up showcase in 2010 the back of Hollywood’s Meltdown Comics and begat three seasons on Comedy Central, will be ending its six-year run next month, the stars and producers announced today. Their final live show will happen Wednesday, Oct. …
Showtime waited to roll the dice on a second season, but why not gamble on Andrew Dice Clay once more? Showtime announced today it’ll order up seven more episodes of DICE, starring Clay as a version of himself living and working in Las Vegas, with Natasha Leggero playing his girlfriend …
Take that, Trump. “Are you excited to be the first girl president?” It’s Zach Galifianakis with a brand-new edition of “Between Two Ferns” from Funny or Die with Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton. “Don’t tell me what to say?” “Fine. Lose. Country goes to shit.” “When you see how well …
Jermaine Fowler will star in primetime for CBS come 2017, now that the Eye Network has ordered his Superior Donuts to series for midseason. CBS had recast and reshot the pilot over the summer after passing on it for this fall. Judd Hirsch and Katey Sagal now will co-star with …
Just a month before Election Day 2016, the Alamo Drafthouse movie chain is giving Idiocracy a bigger 10-year anniversary screening party than the movie’s studio did when it first came out in 2006. As they put it: Ten years ago, satirist Mike Judge told of an impossible future in which …
Comedy Central may no longer have the Emmy-winning Key & Peele, but the cable network will have Kasher and Leggero both on display in 2017. Comedy Central announced a series order today for Problematic with Moshe Kasher, a weekly talk show that will debut in 2017. Kasher’s wife, Natasha Leggero, …
Nick Cody may be from Australia, but he recognizes a universal truth: Small towns are small because nobody wants to live there. Just look at Los Angeles, Cody said on the stage in Burbank for Tuesday’s Conan. Cody is engaged, and neither his fiancee’s fit and healthy lifestyle tips nor …
Norm Macdonald went on Howard Stern on Monday morning with a long dirty joke and plenty of stories, which is convenient since the comedian’s new book, Based on a True Story: A Memoir, went on sale today. Hear here clips of Macdonald reminiscing about “Weekend Update” on Saturday Night Live …
With the 2016 election careening toward Judgment Day, Lewis Black is back on Broadway this fall, giving voice to the grand majority of Americans and citizens worldwide perplexed at our politics and our political discussion. Black is performing “Black to the Future” Monday nights on Broadway, and heading out on …
