The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Thursday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live began with a warning, because a broadcast network was allowing a woman to host a late-night talk show! Hooray for Kristen Bell! In her monologue, she joked that although this was a first for her, “I legitimately hate Matt Damon,” so she should be …
Coming up on the second anniversary of the death of comedy writer Harris Wittels, his high school alma mater in Houston has recruited actor Adam Scott and Earwolf founders Scott Aukerman and Jeff Ullrich to attend a fund-raising luncheon in his honor. HSPVA (The High School for the Performing and …
You could watch golfer Adam Scott try to mount a furious fourth-round rally at The Masters in Augusta, Ga., today. Or you could watch the actor Adam Scott try to hold off the comedian Jon Daly portraying the golfer John Daly in their new half-hour special, The Adult Swim Golf …
For several years now, comedian Jon Daly has made the most out of anyone who may confuse him with professional golfer John Daly, even dressing up like the golfer for photo shoots to further the confusion in Google image searches. Last year, Adult Swim announced it’d join in the fun …
Parks and Recreation wrapped its seventh and final season last night on NBC with a series of heartfelt flash-forwards showing how and where all of the lovable members of Pawnee, Indiana’s parks department ended up 10, 20 years from now. And then, we cut back to 2015. And the Parks …
NBC’s Parks and Recreation says goodbye tonight with a series finale that already would have been bittersweet to its cast, crew and viewers; made much more so with the death last week of one of its own, 30-year-old writer, co-executive producer and Pawnee Animal Control’s “Harris,” Harris Wittels. The show …
You’ll hear a lot in the trades and the trade winds from now through pilot season, which starts in earnest in January, all the way up to the cable Upfronts in the spring and the broadcast network Upfronts in May — when TV programmers present their new and returning lineups …
Adam Scott unveiled the billboard today for the fourth and final edition of his 1980s TV tribute series, “The Greatest Event in Television History,” which will air this Thursday night, Jan. 23, 2014, on Adult Swim. If the photo of Scott with Paul Rudd doesn’t jog your memory, that’s a …
Tonight is the 100th episode of NBC’s Parks and Recreation, which seems entirely plausible and yet also miraculous, considering the state of network television programming at NBC in the 2010s. Of course, throwing the word miracle around is a dubious prospect. As even Parks and Rec‘s co-creator, Michael Schur, noted …
Sure, everyone who loves comedy is talking today about the bold new miniseries farce, The Spoils of Babylon, which debuts tonight on IFC. But if you think that’s bold, then you should have, would have and could have seen something even crazier from the cable network. Like the 1980s soap …
