The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Happy Endings may never have received its titular happy ending, but another scorned ABC sitcom from 2013 will have a last laugh on cable TV. Logo TV announced Monday it had acquired the rights to Don’t Trust The B in Apt 23 and will air the final eight episodes from …
Here are your nominees for 2014 Emmy Awards in TV comedy. Will update with more categories and breakdowns, but for now, congrats to all! Making a big splash this year definitely is Netflix, with its decision to Orange Is the New Black in comedy earning the streaming site a series …
Jon Lovitz is singing for his supper this summer. And he’s not pathologically lying about it this time. Nor is he ACTING! Lovitz is one of the competitors in ABC’s summer celebreality stunt, Sing Your Face Off, which debuts Saturday night with back-to-back episodes from 9 to 11 p.m. Eastern/Pacific. …
Pilot season doesn’t always make sense, and certainly doesn’t feel like it’s under your control, whether you’re an actor, writer, director or producer. Three months ago, stand-up comedian Cristela Alonzo told The Comic’s Comic that her pilot, based on her own life experiences, “isn’t going forward at ABC for now.” …
Friday after business hours: That’s usually when the powers-that-be quietly dump bad news in the media’s lap, so it cannot be followed up and quickly gets lost in the shuffle toward the weekend’s more leisurely pursuits. And yet. And yet! The 7 o’clock hour Friday wrapped up 24 hours of …
When I was 20, I was in college and still unsure of what I wanted to do with the rest of my life. Pete Davidson at 20 has dropped out of college to pursue stand-up comedy, and he already has a gig on MTV2’s Guy Code, a role on a …
ABC’s The View dedicated its Tuesday program to “A Day of Comedy.” Take that, Hot Topics! Everybody else take the day off. For an hour, at least, we’re going to sit back in the late morning hour and enjoy some stand-up comedy. Each of The View‘s co-hosts picked a favorite …
Drew Carey and Craig Ferguson have been a part of each other’s TV lives for close to two decades now, as stand-up comedians, sitcom co-stars and variety show hosts. Both funnymen are busier than ever this spring — Carey completed his first dance last night, the foxtrot, on ABC’s Dancing …
Jimmy Kimmel is eating up the Texas-sized crowds in Austin as deliciously as he is the barbecue in its capital city of Austin, where he kicked off a week of broadcasts Monday night taking ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on the road. “We are here for the South by Southwest Festival. …
On his special live Sunday night edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live broadcast after the Academy Awards, Kimmel’s guest Kevin Spacey again showed off his Johnny Carson impersonation. Spacey (himself a two-time Oscar winner) also surprised Kimmel by saying that his friendship with the Carson estate allowed him to acquire rare …
