The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jenny Zigrino came close to winning Funniest Wins last summer on TBS, and now Thursday night she returned to the station, this time to make her late-night TV debut as a stand-up comedian on Conan. Zigrino came up with a song you can singalong to, if you’d like, about having …
Did the six-minute finale montage at the end of Late Show with David Letterman — expertly synchronized to a live performance of “Everlong” by Foo Fighters — make you wish you could hit the pause button more than a few times while still listening to the song? Well, then, thank …
How do you pull off a prequel to a cult comedy movie 15 years later? It’s not exactly movie magic, but it’ll be funny. “We thought it was funny that in the original we played a bunch of thirty year olds playing teenagers. Now we’re in our forties and our characters …
Casey Wilson told Seth Meyers earlier this year that Hulu’s Hotwives franchise would follow the American Horror Story anthology model, using the same actresses over and over but recasting them in new roles. So whom from The Hotwives of Orlando will be rejoining Wilson for the next installment, The Hotwives …
That Bill Murray Christmas special is happening, and you’ll have to have Netflix to see it come December. Netflix decked the first halls today for A Very Murray Christmas with a promotional teaser clip. It features Murray as himself (or a version thereof) who’s trying to make a TV special in …
Enjoy this Throwback Thursday with a look back across a century of laughs and comedian-on-comedian ribbing as PBS premieres a new half-hour documentary on The Friars Club as part of the “Treasures of New York” series. The special debuts at 10 tonight on WLIW21, and 10 p.m. Friday on WNET-THIRTEEN. …
Fuse is getting into the Fluffy Guy business for years to come, with a tour-based comedy series starting production today in Las Vegas with Gabriel Iglesias and his friends, plus a multi-year partnership for more series and specials. “Gabriel is the perfect example of the type of talent that is …
In 2013, comedian Joe Wong returned to China after living in the United States for close to two decades — first graduating from Rice University in Houston with a doctorate in biochemistry, then moving to Boston and learning his love for the chemistry of making strangers laugh, which earned him …
The 20th anniversary of HBO’s Real Sports with Bryant Gumbel continues to bring in stand-up comedians for their sports-related commentary, and this week, Billy Crystal reminds us he was on Gumbel’s first season, too! Two decades after his 1995 appearance, though, Crystal wonders how he’ll ever explain fallen sports heroes …
Comedy Central has released its summer 2015 plans for new and returning programming, which will see the debuts of period-piece-parody Another Period starring Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome, Why? With Hannibal Buress, hour-long stand-up specials from Leggero, Jeffrey Ross, Bridget Everett and Nick Swardson, and new seasons from Key & Peele, Tosh.0, Drunk History, Review and The …
