The Definitive Guide to Comedy
They’ve spent up to 17 seasons on their own deadlines, pushing animation to the limit to bring you a fresh new episode of South Park. In the 2011 documentary, South Park, 6 Days to Air, you saw how creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker made it all happen. This week, the dynamic …
You’re not the only person to have noticed over the years that late-night TV comedy/talk shows are predominately written by and starring white men. NBCUniversal — which includes The Tonight Show (with Jay Leno current edition; Jimmy Fallon as of February 2014), Late Night (with Fallon; soon to be with …
Aparna Nancherla is a writer/performer on FXX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, but on Monday night, she had the night off from her day job so she could perform her night job on another late-night TV talk show on another network. You dig? You dig. Nancherla was on Conan. …
Donald Glover is an actor (currently and most notably, on NBC’s Community, which he is only partially on for the upcoming season), a writer, a comedian and a rapper. For the latter, he has adopted a nom de plume or nom de rap of Childish Gambino. And for his latest album, “because …
Sherri Shepherd hosts the second season of NickMom Night Out, the late-night stand-up comedy showcase that airs on Nick Jr. for an audience of mostly moms who are ready for a laugh after putting their children to bed. This week sees new episodes debuting nightly, with weekly premieres following at …
For a labor dispute in which the unionization of TV writers is in dispute, the Writers Guild of America sure is busy already, seemingly involved in the only actual decisions regarding E!’s Fashion Police with Joan Rivers. On Monday, the WGA announced it had expelled scribe Larry Amoros from the …
You’re hankering for a slice of pizza, so you slide on into your favorite spot, and just as you’re satisfying your hunger pains, what to your surprise interrupts your everything but a stand-up comedian with his or her own microphone and camera crew?! That’s what happens in the first episode …
What’s your favorite SNL character? No, I mean, by name. By full name. I don’t know that we ever learned who Stefon really was, nor that anyone really cared if Gilly had a last name. And it may have taken a few tries before we learned how to spell Dooneese …
Over the past few years, Comedy Central has embraced the transition to digital consumption — first with releasing stand-up comedy albums in digital-only releases, and more recently with production and distribution of webseries that don’t make it onto the cable TV channel. Today, Comedy Central announced an internal restructuring of …
Simon Amstell is a young chap from the U.K. on his own on the road and at home. And despite his youth, he has some honestly dark and amusing insight into a life lived in isolation. No rules! Perhaps there should be some rules. Or at least one rule. Failing …
