The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Match Game finally is back. The 2016 version, premiering Sunday June 26, 2016, on ABC, began taping new episodes in America for the first time since BLANK (real answer: since 1999, or this century!) yesterday in New York City, so we now know at least six of the celebrities who’ll …
Fortune Feimster joked on Late Night with Seth Meyers that she could use her Southern upbringing and religion to explain her prolonged virginity into her college years. But she said she lived up to whatever cliche stereotype you might have about the “chubby girl” in the group at the nightclub …
Audiences at The Late Show with Stephen Colbert see Paul Mecurio every night, but usually only before the cameras start rolling, since Mecurio is the show’s audience warm-up comedian. On Wednesday night’s episode, though, Colbert booked him to perform during the show, too. So the audience greeted Mecurio with a …
A second season of Jay Leno’s Garage is back on CNBC, so corporate synergy allowed Leno to fill in for his successor Jimmy Fallon during Thursday’s monologue on The Tonight Show. And Leno had plenty of topical jokes at the ready about the two major-party presidential candidates in 2016, Hillary …
HBO announced today that Real Time With Bill Maher will broadcast four additional live half-hour episodes in July during the national conventions for the Republican and Democratic political parties. The episodes will air from Maher’s Los Angeles studio at 11 p.m. Eastern, 10 p.m. Central (tape-delayed for Mountain and Pacific) …
This just in! The CW’s revival of sketch comedy series MADtv has found its cast. And they are…Carlie Craig, Chelsea Davison, Jeremy D. Howard, Amir K, Lyric Lewis, Piotr Michael, Michelle Ortiz and Adam Ray. They’re already being pressed into service, as The CW wants to premiere the new version of MADtv …
Lori Mae Hernandez told the America’s Got Talent judges that she had been doing stand-up comedy for three years prior to her audition on Tuesday night’s episode. Of course, Lori Mae still is only 13. So she doesn’t have much life experience to draw upon for her comedy. But she …
We’ve just received word that Comedy Central’s planned Roast Battle special actually will be broadcast as a weeklong TV showcase competition! Jeff Ross Presents Roast Battle will air over four consecutive nights at the end of July from Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival. Ross and referee/comedian Brian Moses will lead …
Forget the pretty. Forget the good. This is great news. After a five-year hiatus, Larry David will return to his semi-autobiographical, semi-scripted life as “Larry David” on HBO for a ninth season of Curb Your Enthusiasm. Casey Bloys, HBO programming president, made the announcement today: “We’re thrilled that Larry has …
Remember how your parents and grandparents warned you growing up about how to protect yourself in the case of a mass shooting? No. They were more worried about global thermonuclear war killing us all, than they were of a single madman shooting up a church, a movie theater or a …
