The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Hurry up and wait is a common expression in show business. Now it’s all too relevant to the ninth season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, which now has to figure out whether it can return in time for summer 2015 after telling comedians this weekend that production has been put …
In a stunning move, NBC has agreed to free one of its upcoming sitcoms from the clutches of its “drama-heavy” primetime slate to find an audience and grow for at least the next two years on Netflix. Netflix announced Friday night it had picked up Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt — starring …
Can you imagine a whole half-hour of Jay Leno’s JayWalking? How about a weekly half-hour of the late Johnny Carson’s Carnac the Magnificent? This is a first: A signature bit from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and now The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon has been spun-off into its own …
Move over, Tosh. Don’t be ridiculous, Ridiculousness. FOX thinks it can trump Tosh.0, Ridiculousness and all of the other comedians-talking-about-epic-fail-video series on cable by starting up its own such mocker talker in primetime on network TV. World’s Funniest Fails will premiere at 8 p.m. ET/PT Friday, Jan. 16, 2015. It’s …
Frank Nicotero, the warm-up guy for America’s Got Talent who got into it last year with a contestant auditioning with his signature bit, got to show his original version this past summer — well, almost — on Last Comic Standing. It was a digital extra for a while. Now, on …
James Corden is taking over The Late Late Show in March 2015, but we haven’t really seen much of him on American TV, much less CBS, until now. Corden makes his first sit-down with Late Show with David Letterman tonight, and Letterman has a decade of experience hosting a talk …
Fahim Anwar is not Korean but he lives in Koreatown in Los Angeles, which is unsettling, but mostly because of the thin nature of his apartment walls. What’s going on on the other side of that wall? Anwar joked about that and more on Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. …
Every new “correspondent” on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart gets to break in a new suit as Stewart breaks him or her into the show. Well, not every new comedian. Hasan Minhaj made his debut on Comedy Central’s news satire program Wednesday night in a T-shirt, not delivering the …
Last night’s episode of Key & Peele featured a dark satirical sketch that opened with the words: “Everything you are about to see is true.” It then takes us back to the 1987 “Jazz Fit Champonship” where the two finalists, Flash and Lightning, receive some life-and-death information during their already …
When Amy Schumer recorded her first stand-up special for Comedy Central in 2007, she said she had to fight with the cable network’s censors over a joke that implied her friend had had an abortion. Only afterward did she realize Joan Rivers had managed to tell a similar joke about …
