Reductress devotes front page to rape satire
by If you’re a comedian or Facebook friends with a comedian, undoubtedly your Facebook News Feed has seen a flood of statuses about rape, rape culture, …
George Carlin’s 9/10/2001 joke about rooting for natural disasters, and more, on new posthumous release: “I Kinda Like It When A Lotta People Die”
The estate of the late George Carlin, headed up by his daughter Kelly Carlin, has, as she told friends overnight: “We found some stuff.” Kelly …
Larry Wilmore talks about his surprising cancellation by Comedy Central
Larry Wilmore built his Nightly Show on Comedy Central around the concept of “Keeping it 100,” and in the final week of shows on TV, …
Listen to Tracy Morgan’s 80-minute sit-down with Howard Stern
Tracy Morgan sat down with Howard Stern this morning and talked about everything from and since the June 2014 New Jersey Turnpike crash that killed …
Here are the independent comedy pilots accepted into the 2016 New York Television Festival (NYTVF)
The New York Television Festival (NYTVF) announced today that it’d accepted a record 63 independent pilots for its TV and digital consideration this fall. “We …
Comedy Central cancels “The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore”
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore will be no more after this week. Comedy Central has canceled the late-night satire series after a year and …
Episode #108: Bert Kreischer, Live from Just For Laughs Montreal
Bert Kreischer is my special guest today, in an episode recorded in front of a live audience at the 2016 Just For Laughs festival in …
Meet Me In New York: Camille Harris
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 …
Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah grab leads in two new Showtime comedy pilots
Turns out there’s more to the story of the sudden departures of both Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah from Saturday Night Live in the summer …
Stephen Colbert will cover Election Night 2016 LIVE for Showtime
Showtime’s David Nevins announced today to the TV Critics Association that Stephen Colbert will anchor his own live coverage of 2016 election results on the …