The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Last Comic Standing still doesn’t have a premiere date for summer 2015, but when it returns to NBC for a ninth season of stand-up competition, it’ll do so with a new host, new judge and a truncated eight-episode season. Your new host, replacing JB Smoove…is…Anthony Jeselnik! Jeselnik, a veteran of …
The last time Will Ferrell starred in an HBO special, he was lampooning former President George W. Bush on Broadway. On Thursday, Ferrell will be pretending to be something he’s not once more for HBO, but this time, it’s for a very good cause — in partnership with Major League …
It’ll be Christmas in April! All of the surviving members of Monty Python — John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin — will come to New York City in April to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Monty Python and the Holy Grail as well as the …
The next iteration of MTV2’s meme mashup of Ridiculousness and Failosophy is here, and a crew of comedians is ready to improvise jokes, games and prank calls in the new comedic game-show series, MTV2’s Joking Off, which premieres this April Fool’s Day at 11 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, hosted by DeRay Davis. …
This essay originally appeared on Ron Babcock’s website and is reprinted here by his request and with his permission. A LONG BUT BY NO MEANS DEFINITIVE “HOW TO GUIDE” FOR DOING YOUR OWN DIY STANDUP TOUR Hello, my name is Ron Babcock and I’m a comic in LA. Last year …
GSN, the Game Show Network, announced Tuesday during its annual Upfront presentation that it has ordered a brand-new game show hosted by and starring comedians, Lie Detectors. Rove McManus will host, and contestants from the audience will face off against three comedians to determine which of the three is telling …
FOX has announced its summer programming plans for 2015, which include the return of one game show and debut of another, both of which are hosted by stand-up comedians. Tom Papa will host the new primetime game show, Boom!, that’s based on an Israeli format — it’s a quiz show …
Jenna McMahon began her show-business career as one-half of a comedy duo that performed on all of the big talk shows of the 1960s and 1970s, but it was what she and her comedy partner Dick Clair did behind the scenes that made a more lasting impact, as their sketches …
Jerrod Carmichael will find out if he’s ready for primetime in the coming year, as NBC just announced it has ordered six episodes of the untitled multi-cam sitcom based on his life and stand-up, which had been titled Go Jerrod Go. “We’re excited to be going forward to series with Jerrod. …
Did you miss seeing W. Kamau Bell on your cable TV to steer you through the multicultural headlines of 2014 and 2015? CNN is fixing that! The Cable News Network announced today that it has ordered United Shades of America, a weekly docu-series hosted by Bell that’ll debut in 2016. The …
