The Definitive Guide to Comedy
NBC announced today that Saturday Night Live would have three new featured players when the 38th season kicks off this week with host Seth MacFarlane and musical guest Frank Ocean. The new cast members are Cecily Strong, Aidy Bryant and Tim Robinson. All three are former Second City performers in …
Earwolf, the podcasting network founded by Scott Aukerman (Comedy Bang! Bang!) and Jeff Ullrich, is adding music and lifestyle programming to its lineup of talk shows, while also expanding its list of comedy offerings. To wit: New comedy shows up-and-running within this month include “Nerd Poker: Dungeons and Dragons with …
First, comedians discovered the podcast. And it was good? If not good, then at least, comedians discovered the power of speaking into a microphone on their own terms and on their own time to reach their own audiences. Then all comedians were doing podcasts, and they all were talking to …
If you haven’t heard Adam Wade tell a story from his life, then you really must one of these days or nights. Wade is an 18-time winner of The Moth‘s StorySLAM. His tales often look back upon his romantic idealism and how it conflicts with and yet still manages to …
With star players such as Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg departing Saturday Night Live this spring, plus the departure of Abby Elliott over the summer and the potential swan song of Jason Sudeikis coming after Election Day, it’s almost a foregone conclusion that Lorne Michaels would look to bring in …
Comedy Central won the battle for late-night viewers under 35 years old during the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Now they’re looking to take it to their “real” cable news competitors with a series of TV commercials that blast them while touting Comedy Central’s “Indecision 2012” coverage — with Jon …
Anthony Bourdain famously holds back “No Reservations” on his Travel Channel series, which has begun its final season of road-tripping this month. Bourdain can expect comedians to not hold back, either, when they “roast” him as part of the 2012 New York City Wine & Food Festival. Mario Batali and …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
Do you like Conan O’Brien but wish he would sit down with his talk-show guests for much longer than a commercial break? And forget the commercial break? And the jokes, too? Just get down to the jibber-jabber, already?! He has. O’Brien and Team Coco launched a new online interview series, …
Chappelle’s Show famously had fun telling stories about Prince back when Dave Chappelle’s show was a hit for Comedy Central a decade ago. Did you know that not long after the Prince episodes aired, Chappelle, co-creator Neal Brennan and Questlove from The Roots found themselves at a Prince concert, and …
