The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A human rights tribunal in Quebec has ordered comedian Mike Ward to pay $42,000 in “moral and punitive damages” to singer Jérémy Gabriel and Gabriel’s mother, following a complaint made back in 2012 about jokes Ward had made regarding Gabriel. Ward announced the ruling Wednesday night while hosting The Nasty Show …
The final night of the 2016 Republican National Convention went long thanks to Donald Trump’s record-long acceptance speech for his party’s presidential nomination — but CBS was among multiple TV networks deciding they wanted to go live, too, with their late-night comedy reactions. None of them, perhaps as significant or …
Mike Birbiglia says that his new movie about an improv group, Don’t Think Twice, uses plenty of real-life influences and anecdotes. Jimmy Fallon’s life isn’t among them, although Fallon shared a funny note about what happened when he himself got the call from Saturday Night Live — when Fallon called …
We may be a month into summer (and two months from Memorial Day already), but it’s never too late for news of a fourth consecutive Oddball Fest by Funny or Die. Especially when they announced today that this late summer’s tour of North American amphitheaters will include headliners Brian Regan, …
Jimmy Kimmel challenged Jeffrey Ross to come through his offices for Jimmy Kimmel Live and, needless to say, Ross was more than up for it. He is the Roastmaster General, after all. And if you wanted to know who works for Kimmel, this gives you that opportunity, too. All of …
Saturday Night Live sent its Weekend Update team of Michael Che and Colin Jost out to Cleveland to help MSNBC’s coverage of the 2016 Republican National Convention with a special live midnight edition of their newsy joke segment tonight. But Kate McKinnon made an appearance, too, and quickly reasserted herself …
In case you forgot, this 11th season of America’s Got Talent on NBC features a 6-year-old stand-up comedian in California kid Nathan Bockstahler. For his callback audition during the “Judge Cuts” round on Wednesday night’s episode, Bockstahler certainly didn’t forget his 70 seconds of hot jokes about his parents lying …
In a live conversation on Tuesday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, host Colbert looked forward to sitting down with guest Keegan-Michael Key to talk about his new movie, Don’t Think Twice, because it’s rooted in improv comedy. Of course, Colbert, like Key, got his start at The …
Garry Marshall, the writer/director responsible for creating a slew of classic TV sitcoms in the 1970s-1980s, then followed that up by helming several hit comedy movies over a generation, died Tuesday following complications from a series of strokes. Marshall was 81. Among his TV creations: The Odd Couple, Happy Days, Laverne …
Chris Hardwick will be Talking television with AMC’s audiences for years to come. The cable channel announced a new multiyear deal with Hardwick that extends his relationship with AMC — not only to host the Talking Dead, Talking Saul, Talking Preacher and other after-show series, but also to develop new …
