The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Inside Amy Schumer, winner of two Emmys in 2015 and nominated for four more Emmy Awards this year, might not return for its fifth season on Comedy Central in time for the 2017 award season. If it returns at all. That point underscored and hinted at last night by Schumer …
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, social media justice, police and prosecution effectiveness versus lynch mobs, mansplaining, White Knighting and more in the past five days. As a journalist covering comedy, …
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 Carlin previously told The Comic’s Comic about sifting through her father’s massive collection of notes and recordings for stuff that his fans might enjoy in …
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, Wilmore has made that even more evident — not only by ditching the idea of producing new segments Tuesday night (joking that he and his …
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 his friend, comedian James “Jimmy Mack” McNair and almost killed both Morgan and Ardie Fuqua. SiriusXM and The Howard Stern Show have put up the …
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 were blown away by the talent and creativity of this year’s submissions – across the board it was a record-setting year and we had an …
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 a half. It’s last episode will air Thursday. Wilmore broke the news to his staff this morning. “Even though we’ve given it a year and …
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 Montreal. He literally is the “Life of the Party: Stories of a Perpetual Man-Child.” That’s the title of his 2014 memoir — it describes how Bert’s …
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 them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
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 before their seventh seasons on the comedy showcase. Showtime had been negotiating with SNL and NBC to cast both of them in new comedy pilots …
