The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you were hoping to use Laughs as a TV credit and as a path to SAG-AFTRA membership, well, let the actors union stop you right there. SAG-AFTRA issued a “no-contract, no-work” order Tuesday against the stand-up comedy showcase series, which debuted late Saturday night on FOX as a summer trial …
When is a movie about The Office not an Office movie? When Ricky Gervais says it is? The BBC and Gervais announced Tuesday that they’re collaborating on a movie imagining his David Brent character in his life 15 years after leaving the paper company he managed in the fictional BBC …
Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival can seem like a whirlwind, whether it’s your first year or your 30th, whether you’re a fan or a Gala headliner. But photographer Dan Dion managed to make time stop once again this July, thanks to his camera and the trust he has with the …
Darik Santos is relatively inexperienced compared to the other stand-up comedians selected for the live quarterfinal rounds of the 2014 season of America’s Got Talent. According to his profile video, he’s living in a small house with his girlfriend’s father? Interesting. That’s also not exactly the parking lot I pictured …
James Corden? James. Corden? Seriously? When CBS Entertainment Chief Nina Tassler told the TV Critics Association last month that the network might be looking in a different direction for The Late Late Show in 2015, once Craig Ferguson ends his 10-year run of hosting the 12:35 a.m. hour, nobody expected …
Amy Schumer will play Carnegie Hall this November! Bill Cosby, too! They’re among the headliners announced today for this fall’s 11th annual New York Comedy Festival, to run Nov. 5-9, 2014, across the city, presented by Caroline’s on Broadway in conjunction with Comedy Central. The festival announced the lineup through …
Every year, I think I know what to expect heading into Montreal’s grand poobah of comedy festivals — Just For Laughs — only to realize I still have much to learn. Here are some of the things I learned from the 2014 edition of JFL Montreal: Tuesday is the new …
Last week saw fundamental changes at comedy clubs in both New York City and Los Angeles. In the Big Apple, Al Martin sold off his longstanding stake in New York Comedy Club (it now redirects to EmpireTonight.com for the time being for schedule/tickets), and several longtime regular comedians and friends …
Just after getting fired from Saturday Night Live, cast member John Milhiser kept his date as a talk-show guest for Running Late with Scott Rogowsky at the UCB Theatre. Milhiser told Rogowsky that his one and only season at SNL was “a dream come true,” but at the same time …
File this under unsurprising surprises. NBC officially renewed summer sitcom Welcome To Sweden for a 10-episode second season. It keeps the Peacock Network in business with Greg Poehler — brother of network darling Amy, and who himself was named one of Variety’s 10 Comics To Watch just last month. And …
