The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
His latest stand-up comedy special eschews color, either literally onscreen or indirectly via color commentary cutaway shots of the audience. Bill Burr’s “I’m Sorry You Feel That Way,” new this month to Netflix, is a stark black-and-white production. Look at Burr. Hear what he’s telling you. Watch as he acts …
Not even Pauly Shore‘s fans were prepared for how good this new film is. A quarter-century after “The Weasel” popped on MTV and more than a decade after he stopped becoming a reliable box-office star, Shore spent much of his personal and professional capital making light of his status through …
Jerry Seinfeld spent his Festivus with the rest of us Tuesday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. And as is his wont, Seinfeld used his first five minutes to deliver a stand-up set. This selection is from a routine he’s been working on about how all of the …
Just a week after Sony Pictures acquiesced to Internet hackers and threats allegedly from North Korea to cancel the release of the new Seth Rogen-James Franco comedy, The Interview, the film is back on schedule for a limited Christmas Day release. President Barack Obama told reporters at his end-of-the-year press …
That long-awaited Pee-wee Herman comeback movie reportedly won’t happen on the big-screen now, unless you have a really big screen connected to your Netflix account. The Wrap reported Monday through an anonymous source that the film, written by Paul Reubens and Paul Rust and produced by Judd Apatow, “moved to …
This just in: Louis CK has announced he’s playing arenas to kick off 2015, with one-night-only dates scheduled for Jan. 7, 2015, at Madison Square Garden, and Jan. 11, 2015, at the Forum in Los Angeles. The Emmy-winning stand-up comedian and star of his own FX sitcom, Louie, also announced …
