The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Congrats to Amber Ruffin and her crew at The Amber Ruffin Show! The 20th weekly Friday night episode airs tonight, and NBCUniversal announced today that Ruffin’s run on Peacock will continue at least for another six months into September 2021. Ruffin tapes Fridays in the same studio as Late Night …
The National Comedy Center in Jamestown, NY, continues to grow even more into its name. Today the center announced the family of the late great Carl Reiner has donated his archives, and in conjunction with that move, along with Reiner’s position as a founding advisory board member for the center, …
Apple TV+ struck gold in making the critically-beloved award-winning Ted Lasso with Jason Sudeikis. So why not turn to one of J-Sud’s former SNL cast mates and go even bigger? Enter Maya Rudolph. She’ll star in untitled half-hour comedy series as “Molly, a woman whose seemingly perfect life is upended …
While Ellen DeGeneres’s daytime talk show has come under fire for fostering a toxic work environment, that’s not slowing down development deals for DeGeneres herself. Discovery announced that the comedian and host will narrate her first documentary for the network’s streaming platform. Endangered will begin streaming April 22 on Discovery+. …
Iliza Shlesinger has scored another book deal. After writing and publishing “Girl Logic” in 2015, Shlesinger now will produce a series of essays titled “All Things Aside,” through Abrams Books. Quote! “Iliza has emerged as one of the true talents of her generation. She’s able to call out, cut through, …
Kevin Hart almost died in 2019 when his 1970 Plymouth Barracuda (driven by his friend) careened down off of Mullholland Highway and slammed into a tree. Hart not only lived to tell more jokes, but also bought a new muscle car this year (a 1970 Dodge Charger dubbed “Hellraiser”) and …
Before the COVID-19 pandemic, RushTix provided special ticket offers to subscribers for live events including comedy shows, concerts, and theatrical productions in the San Francisco Bay Area. The lockdowns across America in March 2020 changed everything. Jill Bourque pivoted RushTix to become a provider solely of live-streaming comedy shows centered …
All hail Tiffany Haddish, who has now won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the audio recording of her 2019 Netflix special, Black Mitzvah. The other nominees this year for Best Comedy Album were Bill Burr (Paper Tiger), Jim Gaffigan (The Pale Tourist), Jerry Seinfeld (23 Hours to …
It’s rather noticeable that the person who helped bring roasts to Comedy Central is nowhere to be seen or heard from in the cable network’s forthcoming weeklong celebration of Hall of Flame: Top 100 Roast Moments, planned for March 29 through April 2, 2021, at 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific. This first …
Last summer, Comedy Dynamics set up a big stage and a bigger screen outside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., to film four separate stand-up comedy specials. Now we know when we’ll get to see the results! Tribeca Enterprises and Comedy Dynamics announced they’ll release the specials over the course …
