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Real Rob — an eight-episode sitcom that Rob Schneider wrote, produced, starred in and financed himself essentially on spec — has found a home with Netflix. The series will premiere on the streaming service Dec. 1, 2015. The Hollywood Reporter broke the news. “I couldn’t be more thrilled to have our …
Seventeen years ago, Tom Clark was a young aspiring comedian in Milwaukee with ComedySportz who aspired to write for Conan O’Brien. How about telling stand-up on Conan in 2015? Clark will take it! Gladly. Here’s his set from Monday night, in which he jokes about learning what “cholos” mean, and offers up …
Dave Chappelle began a multi-night stint at New York City’s Gramercy Theatre last night with all-star opening acts that included Saturday Night Live‘s Michael Che and Pete Davidson, plus his former Chappelle’s Show co-star Donnell Rawlings. But how’s Chris Rock for a show-stopper?! Rock dropped in for a surprise set, …
Shiny, new and fresh-faced, The Daily Show relaunched Monday night with a new host in Trevor Noah, a new correspondent report from Roy Wood Jr., a first guest in Kevin Hart, and plenty of self-referential jokes to let you know that they know that everything hasn’t completely changed about Comedy …
Did you know that Retta currently is pitching networks on her own late-night TV talk show? Or that at least one network is interested in the possibilities of a late-night show fronted by Jen Kirkman? Or that Margaret Cho and Iliza Shlesinger would love to do it, too? So would lots …
Brian Regan’s live stand-up performance Saturday night was a big hit to the 6,000 audience members inside Radio City Music Hall, and seemed to work out well, too, for the folks at Comedy Central, who’d never produced a live stand-up special before. Sure, the cable network has gone live every …
What’s more nerve wracking? Performing in front of the Pope? Or performing for a restless audience of tens of thousands of Catholics anxiously awaiting the Pope? It’s a question only one comedian can answer, as Jim Gaffigan delivered about 16 minutes of stand-up comedy early Saturday evening in Philadelphia to …
Seaton Smith came to your attention earlier in 2015 playing the character Motif on FOX’s sitcom, Mulaney. Since then, he has told jokes on NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, and spoken his mind on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. I was fortunate to know Smith as early …
Aparna Nancherla has performed stand-up on Conan, @midnight and Last Comic Standing, and previously worked as a writer and performer on FX/FXX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Nancherla recently started a new gig as a monologue writer for another late-night TV talk show, NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. Nancherla told me …
Brian Regan logged 28 stand-up comedy performances on Late Show with David Letterman over the years, but now that Letterman is off the air, and Colbert hasn’t introduced stand-up to his program yet, the place for Regan to stop by this week was The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Besides, …
