The Definitive Guide to Comedy
AXS TV has brought back Gotham Comedy Live for a new season of live hours of stand-up comedy, broadcast live on Thursday nights from New York City’s Gotham Comedy Club. This season features an even more unusual collection of guests hosts than ever. David Hasselhoff hosted a few weeks ago, …
I’ve raved about Baron Vaughn on my website for years as a multi-talented comedian and actor, and 2016 is allowing him to reach even greater heights — he plays Bud on Grace and Frankie alongside Joan Fonda and Lily Tomlin, which begins its second season on Netflix this May. He’ll …
The TV Land Icon Awards 2016 aired on Sunday night, and handed out several new Icon Awards, including an Instant Icon to Cuba Gooding Jr. for his portrayal of O.J. Simpson in the just-concluded FX miniseries, The People vs. O.J. Simpson, and to Debbie Allen the Trailblazer Icon for her …
With a major Democratic presidential candidate debate in Brooklyn on Thursday night, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus hosting Saturday Night Live on Saturday, how could SNL not reunite Dreyfus with her Seinfeld co-creator? That the show did so right up front wasn’t a surprise, nor that Larry David returned once more to …
Nick Guerra is 5-foot-5, which is rough when you look at dating sites and see how many women want a tall men, but is amusing when his long hair manages to form a line behind him for the women’s room. Although he explained while making his late-night debut on Friday’s …
Congrats to Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi, the comedians who co-host the Throwing Shade podcast, as they’re about to join the late-night TV ranks with a series order today from TV Land. Throwing Shade‘s 10-episode order will premiere in January 2017 in the 11 p.m. ET/PT timeslot. Gibson and Safi …
Michelle Wolf just left Late Night with Seth Meyers for her correspondent job at The Daily Show, which also means she could come back soon enough as a stand-up guest. Speaking of making progress, Hillary Clinton! Wolf has some thoughts about Hillary’s campaign to become the first female president of …
Just one day into the 2016 Tribeca Film Festival, new streaming upstart Seeso has made waves by acquiring worldwide distribution rights to the documentary, The Pistol Shrimps, to become the platform’s first direct-to-Seeso movie. The Pistol Shrimps has its world premiere today at Tribeca. The doc, directed by Brent Hodge …
Netflix will continue rolling out at least one major stand-up comedy special per month through the summer of 2016, announcing the latest additions to their slate. They include new hours from Netflix faves such as Jim Jefferies and Iliza Shlesinger, a team-up by Blue Collar all-stars Jeff Foxworthy and Larry …
The first South African to host an American late-night talk show will be there in person this summer to find out if our country is ready to nominate the first Canadian-born president, first Jewish president, first female president, or as plenty have joked already, our last president of the United …
