The Definitive Guide to Comedy
As reported first last week by New York mag’s Vulture, Comedy Central hopes to have Charlamagne Tha God hosting a weekly talk show on its TV channel before the November elections. Chris McCarthy (no relation) now runs Comedy Central as ViacomCBS’s head of the media conglomerate’s “Entertainment and Youth Group,” …
Billy Eichner made a great guest-host for wherever they’re staging the quarantine editions of ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live. Check out his fabulous monologue. I only wish he really did have a Cameo account. Spoiler alert?
Laurie Kilmartin, stand-up comedian and writer for Conan on TBS, recently lost her mother to COVID-19. Kilmartin live-Tweeted her experience, as she had when her father died from lung cancer a few years earlier. But Kilmartin could spend those final hours with her father by his bedside, in home hospice. …
When the federal Small Business Administration finally released information this week on how they distributed $670 billion in available funds this spring through PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loans, comedy fans were quick to pounce on the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre for claiming massive sums for its training centers in New …
John Mulaney premiered John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch, a parody of children’s TV shows, last year on Netflix. He’ll make two more specials with the kids for Comedy Central. Comedy Central announced the news Tuesday. At least one of Mulaney’s two new Sack Lunch Bunch specials will come …
This shouldn’t shock anyone in 2020, but Just For Laughs pulled the plug on this fall’s JFL42 festival in Toronto. JFL announced the news Tuesday. Instead of taking place from Sept. 24 to Oct. 3, 2020, the ninth edition of Toronto’s JFL42 comedy festival will take place Sept. 23 – …
Gary Larson, the cartoonist who retired his popular “The Far Side” strip on Jan. 1, 1995, has returned online with new comic strips. Credit the digital tablet age with reinvigorating Larson! As he wrote today in a letter accompanying the debut of new color toons, Larson said he bought a …
Conan O’Brien took his TBS show out of his home and into Largo at The Coronet Theater in West Hollywood on Monday, along with a skeleton crew and an “audience” of one, his assistant, Sona. Why? Let Conan explain it: “Well, a lot of theaters across the country are struggling …
Jimmy Kimmel Live! returns tonight after a two-week hiatus, but without Kimmel at the helm. Kimmel announced he was taking the summer off, after broadcasting monologues and conducting interviews at home under quarantine, to spend time with his family away from the camera. And he insisted the summer break is unrelated …
For more than 30 years, we’ve seen Wally Feresten emerge from time to time, from just off-camera to on camera, as the longtime cue card guy for Saturday Night Live (as well as NBC’s Late Night franchise). When TV went into quarantine in March, and resumed broadcasting from home, that …
