The Definitive Guide to Comedy
You’ve seen plenty of comedians appear in State Farm TV commercials with Green Bay Packers QB Aaron Rodgers, but tonight, you’ll start seeing a comedian without Rodgers, but who looks pretty darn close to him. Meet Tom Wrigglesworth! Wrigglesworth is a comedian from Sheffield, England, who was a finalist for …
The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore named its first correspondents, just shy of a week before Wimore and company assume their late-night slot on Comedy Central, airing 11:30 p.m. Eastern/Pacific Mondays-Thursdays after The Daily Show with Jon Stewart beginning Monday, Jan. 19, 2015. They are Shenaz Treasury, Ricky Velez and …
Michael Somerville returned to the Late Show with David Letterman to round out the first full week of 2015. Speaking of rounding out, Somerville joked about trying a no-carb diet, and about his no-love for vegetables. Want more jokes? Roll the clip.
How did Netflix not announce this earlier in the week when it already had the full attention of the TV Critics Association? Regardless… Wet Hot American Summer officially is back in production! The cult favorite film from 2001 has found its cast members reunite a few times since, usually either …
Comedy Central has teamed up with the NFL to produce its first-ever official Super Bowl comedy special, and it’ll be an hourlong sketch spectacular from Key & Peele‘s Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele. Key & Peele Super Bowl Special (#KeyAndPeeleSuperBowlSpecial) will premiere at 10 p.m. ET/PT on Friday, Jan. 30th, …
Before “Bang Bang” was a catchy summer song of 2014, it was an appetizing double-feature of a meal that Robert Kelly shared with Louis CK and the world at-large on the fourth season of FX’s Louie. Post by Louie. In 2015, Kelly is all about the Bam Bam, as in …
You win some, you lose some. That’s the nature of game shows. And Craig Ferguson learned on Thursday that he’ll continue hosting one, Celebrity Name Game, which received a renewal for a second season this fall via Debmar-Mercury and FremantleMedia North America. The game show that has celebrities and contestants …
HBO took its turn before the Winter Press Tour of the TV Critics Association (TCA) on Thursday, and among the premiere date announcements for new and returning series, and an affirmation of the quick season 5 renewal for Girls, the pay-cable network also revealed plans to broadcast a documentary on …
Longtime Chicago improv actor and teacher Jason R. Chin died suddenly Thursday night. Chin was 46. Improv Olympic founder Charna Halpern passed along the devastating news overnight. “I am heart broken. Our Jason Chin passed away,” Halpern wrote to friends. “He was a wonderful friend and a huge part of …
Have you been clamoring, wishing and hoping for an onscreen reunion of Mr. Show, the critical cult favorite sketch comedy series that ran on HBO from 1995-1998, starred David Cross and Bob Odenkirk, and catapulted the careers of several other heroes of your alt-comedy universe? Consider your wish already granted …
