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Today during the TCA summer tour for America’s TV Critics Association, Showtime announced it had ordered 10 half-hour episodes of a comedy interview series, Laughing Stock, hosted by David Steinberg and executive produced by Steve Carell. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Steinberg, who turns 69 on Aug. 9, hosted …
Lucille Ball would have turned 100 on Saturday, Aug. 6. To celebrate her legacy, LIFE magazine at life.com has posted a gallery of never-before-published photographs of the comedienne. In this 1958 photo by Leonard McCombe for TIME & LIFE Pictures, we see Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball posing in front …
Russell Howard is a young bloke from the UK who has become a star on the telly and broken records for ticket sales by young blokes who tell jokes. But he has yet to crack the States. Last night, he made his TV debut here by appearing on Conan, and …
If you’re old enough to remember a time before cable television, when your TV had about four stations on it, Jerry Lewis and “Jerry’s Kids” took over your Labor Day weekend for decades. But no more. The Muscular Dystrophy Association announced yesterday that it had severed ties with Jerry Lewis. …
It’s not going to be quite as salacious as the video, “Two Girls One Cup,” nor is it going to be as plentiful as The Kids in the Hall, but it will be Two Kids One Hall as KITH’s Scott Thompson and Kevin McDonald embark on a nationwide tour of comedy …
Lavell Crawford performed on last night’s Lopez Tonight to promote his upcoming Comedy Central special, Can A Brother Get Some Love? But Crawford wasn’t looking for love last night. Rather, he was looking to explain just how lazy he is. Also, Crawford wonders why there are so many types of …
Craig Ferguson loves to have a loosey-goosey attitude on the set of his late-night talk show for CBS, but this week takes things to another level. Or should I say, another country entirely. This week’s episodes come to us from Paris, where Ferguson recently went on a working vacation. On …
The fourth and final group of quarterfinalists performed last night on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, and that left impersonator Melissa Villasenor as the last comedian remaining in this summer’s competition. For her performance, she chose to include the voices of judge Sharon Osbourne and singer Mariah Carey (wife of host …
Here’s the follow-up today from that incident last month in which activist/comedian Jonathan May-Bowles interrupted the Parliamentary investigation of Rupert Murdoch by tossing a whipped cream pie in his face. The AP report: PREVIOUSLY: Analysis of this comedian’s actions toward Murdoch.
Michael Ian Black jokes early in his new Comedy Central special, “Very Famous,” (premiering this Saturday) that he specializes in getting cancelled from TV shows. But you sure do get to see quite a bit of MIB on your TV, don’t you? So The Comic’s Comic asked him about this, and …
