The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Guest host Drew Carey introduced Ryan Hamilton on Tuesday’s Late Late Show by calling him “one of the best guys working” and one of his favorites, and Hamilton had fun explaining that New York City’s attitude of “if you can make it there” might not square with other places, even …
At least 10 journalists and two police officers were killed today in a massacre launched by multiple gunmen at Charlie Hebdo, a weekly satirical magazine in Paris that frequently lampooned Islam and its prophet Muhammad. Perhaps five others were seriously wounded in the terror attack. The magazine’s offices previously were …
Comedian Dylan Avila is lucky to be alive and still have his wits about him, after a wannabe open micer who’d been banned from multiple Seattle-area comedy clubs and rooms returned to the open mic Avila hosts Monday nights in Renton and bashed him in the head with an aluminum …
SiriusXM is replacing and rebranding its current “Public Radio” station (the satellite radio giant also carries NPR) as Insight, which will debut next Monday — Jan. 12, 2015 — as a more entertaining and, ahem, insightful look at the day’s news. Thank Sirius host and former Colbert Report warm-up comic …
Michael Palascak vows to tell his future children better bedtime stories than his mom told him when he was a kid. As the comedian explained in his stand-up performance on Monday’s Conan, Palasack still enjoys going home to visit his parents, though, wherein he learns all of the various parking …
The Late Late Show returned to CBS in 2015 with its first guest host in the post-Ferguson era, and Drew Carey had stand-up comedian Lachlan Patterson booked Monday night. Patterson, a runner-up on the 2014 season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, had more than a few words for George Foreman …
From YouTube to basic cable, from My Damn Channel to E!, Grace Helbig is headed for primetime stardom in 2015 The Grace Helbig Project is the tentative title for the comedian’s weekly primetime “hybrid comedy talk show” set to debut in April on E!, the network announced today. Helbig, 29, …
Sharing your honest self onstage as a comedian gets a lot more honest once you’ve not only shed any persona, alter ego, reputation or gimmick you use, but also every ounce of clothing you normally cover yourself with to further enhance whatever brand you want the audience to perceive. So …
Director Lisa D’Apolito was halfway through production of a documentary on the late Gilda Radner when she ran out of funds, so she turned to Indiegogo for help. She’s raised just more than half of the $50,000 she needs to finish LOVE Gilda — The Legacy of Gilda Radner. D’Apolito has until …
You’ll hear a lot in the trades and the trade winds from now through pilot season, which starts in earnest in January, all the way up to the cable Upfronts in the spring and the broadcast network Upfronts in May — when TV programmers present their new and returning lineups …
