The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Lucas Brothers have been animated on FOX, served up laughs on 22 Jump Street, and joined the new sketch comedy show Friends of the People on truTV, but at their roots identical twins Kenny and Keith Lucas are stand-up comedians. Their first late-night set happened way back when Jimmy …
Brian Regan has performed stand-up so many times on Late Show with David Letterman that when Letterman introduced Regan on Friday night’s episode, Letterman didn’t even try to give a specific number. “More than 25 times,” is what he said. What made this night special, though: Regan also received an …
Halloween Friday was a busy night for stand-up comedians on late-night network TV. Alingon Mitra performed on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. You may remember seeing Mitra this summer on TV and online as the “Comic Comeback” winner of NBC’s Last Comic Standing. On Ferguson, Mitra notes that …
Must-See Thursdays were how long ago, now? NBC has decided to scrap another lineup of new Thursday night sitcoms, halting production on both Bad Judge and A to Z in a Halloween massacre after both rookie shows failed to reach even a 1.0 rating among adults 18-49 last night. Last …
Who are you dressing up as for Halloween? Wayne and Garth from the SNL sketch and movies, Wayne’s World, is a fun, retro choice, honoring the characters made famous by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey. So nice they’re on TV at least twice this Halloween. First, this morning, Kathie Lee …
If you thought that Stephen Merchant’s Hello Ladies said goodbye already back in 2013, then you’ve got a second coming coming. HBO will wrap up the show’s initial eight-episode storyline with an 80-minute Hello Ladies: The Movie, that debuts Nov. 22 on the cable channel and wherever your HBOGo goes. Here’s …
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 …
Trick or treat! IFC has a Halloween treat—a first look at Portlandia’s fifth season! In this clip, Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein are a goth couple celebrating the most goth thing they could possibly do: Plan their own funerals, obviously. What to include, what to include, though? How about body-dragging jackals, shrieking …
As Netflix and Amazon have gotten into the game of programming original sitcoms and dramas alike, Hulu has been dipping its toes into the water, relying mostly on distribution of newly-acquired content or animation and parody. Hulu has added to the fray today, ordering up a straight-to-series 10-episode order of …
The Ebola epidemic may have only begun to hit New York City and America, but NYC is fighting back with a fund-raiser. Specifically, a collection of New York comedians and musicians are putting on a benefit show — Nov. 19, 2014, at Irving Plaza — with all of the proceeds …
