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You cannot have a period piece without a lot of punctuation. I’ll see myself out, but not before running on and on about the casting news for Comedy Central’s new historical satire series, Another Period, which has begun production in Los Angeles. Joining stars, writers and executive producers Natasha Leggero …
IFC’s talk show with the most liberal interpretations of talk and show — Comedy Bang! Bang! with host Scott Aukerman and musical cohort Reggie Watts — returns Oct. 17 for the second half of its third season. Ten new episodes will premiere at 11 p.m. ET/PT Friday nights, with guests including: James Adomian, Eric Andre,Dane Cook, Rob Corddry, Andy Daly, Jon …
Jimmy Fallon’s heading back to the Super Bowl. NBC announced today that The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon will broadcast live on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, from the Orpheum Theater in Phoenix. The special live Tonight Show will air live following Super Bowl XLIX, a special episode The …
An all-star lineup of stand-up comedians will play in Peoria so that a comedic legend’s statue can stand tall in that town for generations to come. George Lopez, Cedric the Entertainer, D.L. Hughley, Eddie Griffin and Mike Epps will headline “A Night For Richard,” on Nov. 2 at the Peoria …
From the hours immediately following the fatal crash along the New Jersey Turnpike in June that killed one comedian (“Jimmy Mack”) and critically wounded three others — Tracy Morgan, Ardie Fuqua and Morgan’s assistant, Jeffrey Millea — Walmart said it’d do everything to settle the matter quickly and smoothly. Bill …
Bill Geist traveled to the Vent Haven ConVENTion in Kentucky this year for CBS Sunday Morning, and of the 575 ventriloquists on hand — and dummies in hand — Geist focused his spotlight on Carla Rhodes. Oh, and of course, a few moments with multi-millionaire global ventriloquist star Jeff Dunham. …
Mike Flinn (@realmikeflinn) isn’t just a podcast producer and engineer; he’s also an avid fan of the form. “My Pod Week” recaps and reviews the many varied comedy podcasts Flinn listened to or attended live tapings of during the previous week. Enjoy! This past weekend, Flinn took in the Los …
Andrew Norelli was back on the Late Show on Friday night, tanned, rested and ready to tell us what he has learned about the economy from the French. The French smoke a lot, don’t they, still? Smokers in America, meanwhile, have some strange reactions to the rules we’ve enacted toward …
The 40th anniversary season of Saturday Night Live kicked off with the luxury of having the summer’s hottest movie star coming from within NBC’s ranks to host in Chris Pratt, a new Weekend Update co-anchor coming back from within SNL’s own writing ranks, and the hottest young pop singer as …
Gina Brillon‘s first hour-long stand-up special, Pacifically Speaking, premieres at 10 p.m. ET/PT Saturday via NUVOtv and a little help from Gabriel Iglesias. Iglesias “presents” and introduces Brillon to the audience (it’s the second such special “Fluffy” has presented for NUVOtv), and also cast her in his Fluffy Movie this summer. Iglesias …
