The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Veronica Mosey has amassed considerable credits and a reputation for not holding back with her feelings onstage. A fixture in the New York City comedy clubs and on the road, multiple guest spots opining on FOX News, performances on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and Live at Gotham, daytime appearances with …
Can you outbid $910 to win and wear the “Sexy Vagina” costume this Halloween? That’s where things stood at 11:30 a.m. Eastern today, with a day and a few hours remaining in the eBay auction for the vagina, er, vulva, displayed by The Daily Show‘s correspondent Kristen Schaal during her …
Emile Hirsch has been tapped to star as the late John Belushi in a planned biopic on the comedian who became a star as an original cast member on Saturday Night Live, the breakout supporting character of National Lampoon’s Animal House, and one-half of The Blues Brothers. Belushi died of …
We first saw Conan O’Brien as a bona fide late-night TV talk-show host on NBC in September 1993. It’s never too late to celebrate a 20th anniversary, though, is it? That’s what Team Coco has decided, kicking off a weeklong celebration Monday night on TBS with plenty of clip packages from the …
Eight seasons on HBO were not enough for the man-boys of Entourage. Director Doug Ellin and cast member Jerry Ferrara (“Turtle”) announced the news Monday via their Twitter feeds that the big-screen continuation to their cable TV series was all set and ready to proceed into production. Pretty much. From …
FremantleMedia North America and Debmar-Mercury are selling TV stations and networks on a new syndicated game show, hosted by Craig Ferguson and based on the board game Identity Crisis. They’re looking to launch Celebrity Name Game nationwide in fall 2014. As the description for the pilot, filmed back in 2011, …
ABC has apologized for a taped bit that aired earlier this month on Jimmy Kimmel Live and had children suggesting and then debating whether to kill everyone in China to erase the U.S. debt. The bit in question aired on Oct. 16 as a sketch called “Kids Table” with Kimmel …
Just in time, but also cut for time, here’s a scene that didn’t make it into last weekend’s Saturday Night Live with Edward Norton. It’s a music video from Taran Killam, avenging the “Cabbage Night” haters who smashed his pumpkin in, well, “Don’t Smash My Pumpkin.” Roll the clip! https://www.hulu.com/watch/550573
Re:Verse, a comedy pilot created by Stephen Soroka and Nic Rad and starring Maria Krovatin as a 22-year-old who quits law school and pursues multiple futures in New York City, won the inaugural “Best of Fest” award and the Audience Award at last weekend’s New York Television Festival. Soroka wrote …
Sometimes a show gets defensive before you have a chance to criticize it accurately, and pulls out a series of unnecessary stops to make you stop and think, why does this need to be happening? That’s the thought that dominated this installment of Saturday Night Live. Why are Alec Baldwin …
