The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Nate Bargatze‘s first Comedy Central hour special debuts in a week-and-a-half, and on Tuesday night, he treated us all to a taste of it on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, with jokes about how his wife’s ex-boyfriend made almost everyone uncomfortable on a boat, and about how poorly he …
Amy Schumer and her Inside Amy Schumer writers and producers really upped the ante for season three with some brilliantly brutal satire, biting with wit and laughs while making a very clear point that our culture’s priorities and viewpoints could use a shake-up. Here are the videos and sketches from …
For the first time in two years, MTV is getting back into the late-night talk show arena, announcing a series order with Big Breakfast for Middle of the Night Show, along with a weekly spin-off talker for Girl Code called Girl Code Live. Both announcements came late Tuesday during MTV’s Upfronts presentation …
The trades are abuzz with Netflix’s latest TV series acquisition, even if Netflix hasn’t released the news officially and nobody knows what the new comedy will be called! That’s because it’ll star Aziz Ansari, who co-created the as-yet-untitled sitcom with his Parks and Recreation colleague Alan Yang that has received …
And then there will be 11. Jim Gaffigan announced today that he’s added a date to the end of his 2015 tour schedule, and it’s a biggie — well, the biggest venue in size and prestige to stand-up comedians: New York City’s Madison Square Garden. Gaffigan will perform the MSG …
Whitney Cummings is getting back in front of the cameras by 2016, inking a new deal with HBO for a stand-up comedy special to film this fall and a sitcom pilot based on Maureen Dowd’s book, Are Men Necessary? When Sexes Collide. Marty Callner will direct the Cummings stand-up special …
Two decades after we last said goodbye to Full House, they’re all coming back. Well, maybe not the Olsen twins. But everybody else. John Stamos announced the done deal on Monday night’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, confirmed by Netflix. A one-hour special will reunite the cast, 20 years after Danny, Jesse, …
Mark your calendars: Aug. 6, 2015, will end Jon Stewart’s mighty reign as host of The Daily Show on Comedy Central. Stewart announced his final date at the close of Monday’s episode. Roll the clip! Stewart had told Catie Lazarus two months ago that he wanted to leave the show …
The first season of Cristela on ABC ended Friday night. Will there be more than 22 episodes to follow come fall? That’ll be determined in May when the networks announce their 2015-2016 primetime schedules to advertisers at the annual Upfronts. Star stand-up Cristela Alonzo will appear on ABC this week …
Gizmodo has called High Maintenance “the greatest show not on television.” Not anymore. HBO ordered a six-episode run of the Vimeo webseries on Monday — April 20, aka 4/20, aka the high holy day for stoners — to follow the adventures of a friendly Brooklyn pot dealer. “High Maintenance has …
