The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The long wait for Issa Rae has been rewarded. HBO has ordered Insecure to series. Co-created and written by Rae and Larry Wilmore, the half-hour comedy had been in the works with HBO since 2013. It’ll follow Rae and Molly (Yvonne Orji) through their friendship and lives. “Dreams come true,” …
Childish Gambino and Community fans rejoice, as Donald Glover will return to TV in 2016 in a new role he created as a young rapper in Atlanta. Speaking of which… FX has ordered 10 half-hour episodes of Atlanta. “Atlanta draws on Donald’s considerable talents as a musician, actor and writer …
NBCUniversal has announced the launch of Seeso, the company’s own comedy video subscription service online that’ll offer ad-free streaming sitcoms (both classic and new original series) for $3.99/month. It’s in beta now. Seeso is headed by Evan Shapiro, who previously helmed Pivot TV and before that, IFC TV and Sundance Channel. …
Ali Farahnakian is living the American comedy dream. Born in Iran and raised in North Carolina, Ali moved to Chicago after college and fell right in with The Second City, improv Olympic and the teachings of Del Close and Charna Halpern. Saying “Yes, And” to life led him to becoming …
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 …
And now, for thirty seconds with Bill Murray and some of his funny friends. Including: George Clooney, Amy Poehler, Michael Cera, Chris Rock, Maya Rudolph, Jason Schwartzman, Jenny Lewis, Rashida Jones, Miley Cyrus and the band Phoenix. It’s the official teaser trailer for A Very Murray Christmas, coming to Netflix …
Byron Bowers cares more about AppleCare than ObamaCare, but that’s his right as an American to have his priorities straight. As Bowers explained in this performance which aired on Tuesday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, a lot has changed in America over the years, despite him still being classified as “accident-prone” …
A lone gunman approached an audience member on the patio outside The Comedy Store early Wednesday morning, shooting and killing him before running away across the Sunset Strip and south down Olive Drive. Nobody else was injured, although several comedians were on the patio, too, when the killing happened around …
(Photo of Josh Gondelman by Mindy Tucker, August 2015) 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 …
Eddie Murphy will receive the 2015 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor this weekend at the Kennedy Center, and a whole host of comedy stars will align to honor him — among them, Dave Chappelle, Kathy Griffin, Arsenio Hall, Brittany Howard, George Lopez, Sam Moore, Tracy Morgan, Kevin Nealon, Trevor …
