The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Netflix is adding to its original comedy movie portfolio, announcing on Tuesday it’ll be the first to release and distribute Christopher Guest’s next movie, Mascots. Premiering exclusively on Netflix in 2016, Mascots carries the following description: “Welcome to all the drama, intrigue, and occasional excitement of The 8th World Mascot …
Paul Zerdin is a British ventriloquist looking to make it in America, and he received a “Golden Buzzer” fast pass to Tuesday night’s quarterfinal round of America’s Got Talent at Radio City Music Hall. Zerdin impressed the judges and audience by leaving his dummy in the bag, and then alone …
Piff the Magic Dragon is a British bloke in costume who has relocated to Las Vegas, and shined previously on Penn & Teller: Fool Us. Can he fool you and the judges into supporting his sarcastic magic act? So far, so good. He received a “Golden Buzzer” fast pass to …
Drew Lynch was one of three “Golden Buzzer” acts — all comedic — who received fast passes from the judges to the live quarterfinal rounds of America’s Got Talent, which began Tuesday night on NBC from Radio City Music Hall. For those of you who needed catching up, we saw …
George Lopez is heading back to cable TV with a new straight-to-series order announced today by TV Land. Lopez will air at least 12 half-hour episodes starting in 2016, starring Lopez as a semiautobiographical version of himself, a comedian trying to find balance between his rich Hollywood existence and his Hispanic-American …
Steve Buscemi’s talk-show webseries for AOL, Park Bench, was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-Format Nonfiction Program. Nothing is stranger than nonfiction sometimes, and even an Emmy-nominated webseries will face real-life hurdles and rude interruptions when you’re staging the whole thing on a park bench outside in New …
Longtime friend of the site Dan Pasternack has shared many stories behind his collection of signed comedy albums with McSweeney’s online in a series titled, “My Signed Comedy LPs: One Comedy Nerd’s Obsessive Journey.” Today, Pasternack — head of Big Beach TV and former VP of development and production at …
Bill Burr will hit the big-time of Madison Square Garden, while Kathy Griffin, Judd Apatow and friends will play Carnegie Hall this November as headliners for the 2015 New York Comedy Festival, announced late today. The festival site will relaunch on Tuesday with the updated slate for 2015, which will …
Andy Kindler becomes the ultimate “comic’s comic” each July when he delivers the annual State of the Industry Address at the Just For Laughs comedy festival in Montreal. Essentially, it’s Kindler reminding the comedy industry what comedy is all about. It’s a must-see event each summer. And it all grew …
Jon Rineman is a writer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and on Friday night’s show, Rineman emerged from behind the scenes to perform some of his own stand-up. Get to know Rineman better: He’s married for four years now, which offers him a different perspective on the old chestnut …
