The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedy Central is continuing its nostalgia trip into the early 1990s… After previously green-lighting reboots or reimaginings or revivals or whatever-you-may-call-thems of Beavis and Butt-Head and a Daria spin-off, Comedy Central now has announced it’s bringing back The Ren & Stimpy Show. “I want to thank our partners at Nick …
HBO is ready to make its big re-splash into stand-up comedy, unveiling four new comedy specials on the same day later this month on HBO Max. Here’s the teaser trailer: The Summer Comedy Festival programming binge, will feature solo specials from Rose Matafeo, Beth Stelling, and James Veitch, as well as a multi …
The inaugural Tournament of Laughs from TBS has wrapped and declared a winner. Would you believe…Piff the Magic Dragon? Sunday’s finale, hosted by Jason Sudeikis, saw the final four competitors quickly winnowed to two, with Piff beating out Natasha Leggero (who claimed in last week’s episode that she didn’t want …
This is a first: America’s Got Talent isn’t waiting for you to watch any more episodes on NBC before revealing who are the 44 acts remaining that will compete in the live shows this August. Among them: comedians Alex Hooper, Usama Siddiquee, and Michael Yo; plus impersonator Vincent Marcus. Season …
The Laugh Factory’s Chicago club has announced it will reopen this Saturday (Aug. 1), in accordance with the city of Chicago’s reopening guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. The club plans to put on shows on weekends only through September, with audiences limited to 50 per show. All of the performers …
Congrats to Jim Gaffigan, who has become the first stand-up comedian to attract at least one billion streaming listens of his comedy tracks in the digital age! Gaffigan recently broke the billion-stream barrier on Pandora, the streaming audio app that’s now a subsidiary of SiriusXM. Pandora noted that no other …
For the first week of “Judge Cuts” on the 2020 season of America’s Got Talent, the contestants performed separately from the show’s four judges due to the COVID-19 pandemic. That meant that most of them also could do something unusual this year, pre-taping their callback performances and turning them into …
TV’s Andy Daly, star of Comedy Central’s Review, which ran for three seasons from 2014-2017, has brought critic Forrest MacNeil back out to remind you he’s still reviewing life and everything about it, just now for private clients. What happened to his foot, though?
Congratulations to the nominees for this year’s Emmy Awards! Here are the comedians and comedies in the running for Emmys, which will be handed out Sept. 20, 2020, on ABC. VARIETY SPECIAL (PRE-RECORDED) Dave Chappelle, Sticks & Stones (Netflix) Dave Chappelle, Mark Twain Prize ceremony (PBS) Hannah Gadsby, Douglas (Netflix) …
Discussions of racial representation and onscreen depiction of the police both hit home for Carlos Alazraqui. Born to Argentinian parents, Carlos has spent the most time onscreen as Deputy James Garcia on Reno 911!, which aired from 2003 to 2009 on Comedy Central, spawned a movie in 2007 and has …
