Tips for Storytellers and Stand-ups Who Want to Sell a Book
For the last decade I have been a publishing drone by day (Editorial Assistant to start, then steps up the ladder over the years to my current job as a Managing Editor) and Stand-up Comedian and Storyteller by night (I can sleep when I’m dead!). Two years ago, I added …
Hulu acquires entire library of Seinfeld episodes
Jerry Seinfeld turns 61 today. Hulu brought Seinfeld out to tell advertisers today that the streaming service had paid Sony Pictures Television a reported $700,000 per episode to be your exclusive online source for the entire nine-season run of Seinfeld, which aired 180 episodes on NBC back in the 1990s. …
R.I.P. “The Riv,” The Riviera Comedy Club in Las Vegas, Nevada
The Riviera Comedy Club died tonight* after fighting a lengthy battle with economics. The club is survived by hundreds of mourning comics: Some great, some hacks, some geniuses, some frauds, some journeymen and women, some who became successful, some who did not, some who went on to write TV and blockbuster films, …
David Letterman’s exit interview with The New York Times
Six big takeaways from Dave Itzkoff’s sit-down with David Letterman for The New York Times as Letterman approaches his final month as a late-night TV host (and for a seventh, how about this photo from Damon Winter that reveals Letterman has wall of stacked paper cups along his dressing-room mirror …
FOX promotes Golan The Insatiable to primetime for summer 2015, recasts main voices
FOX has promoted Golan The Insatiable from its “Animation Domination High-Def” block to become a half-hour primetime series this summer, with the first of six episodes premiering Sunday, May 31, 2015, at 9:30 p.m. ET/PT. As part of the promotion, the network also has recast the main voices, with Rob …
Charm City Comedy Festival adjusts schedule to accommodate Baltimore curfew
If any American city could use a charm offensive right about now, it’s Baltimore. And yet, the second annual Charm City Comedy Festival — set to begin Wednesday and run through Sunday in Baltimore — has been forced to scrap and/or move several of its shows this week due to …
SAG-AFTRA issues “Do Not Work” order against duo of “reality” series filming comedians and their families
SAG-AFTRA has issued a “no-contract, no-work” order against L. Plummer Media, which is currently filming both Comedians of LA for Esquire and Living With Funny for the Oxygen Network simultaneously. The actors’ union notes that the production is for “a single series, produced by a single company — L. Plummer Media …
David Krumholtz is the elderly widow Gigi in IFC’s newly ordered series, “Gigi’s Bucket List”
David Krumholtz will become an elderly widow for laughs later this year, as IFC announced today it has ordered eight half-hour episodes of his sitcom, Gigi’s Bucket List. The series stars Krumholtz as Gertrude Rotblum (“Gigi”), a 76-year-old woman who discovers a previously unknown bank account in her husband’s will …
“Filthy Sexy Teen$” gets series order to jumpstart FOX’s digital development slate
FOX’s new digital comedy development ventures received a boost today with the announcement that high-school soap opera parody Filthy Sexy Teen$ would receive an eight-episode order from Fullscreen. It’s one of several projects coming from Keith Quinn and Jonathan Stern, but unique in that it already aired a one-off pilot for Adult …