The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Craig Robinson kicked off the revived American Comedy Awards with a musical introduction of the first presenter of the night. Wonder who that might be? And here are your winners of the revived American Comedy Awards, as broadcast May 8, 2014, on NBC: Comedy Supporting Actor, TV: Bill Hader, Saturday …
The American Comedy Awards will return to network TV in May with one more big name to be feted, announcing late Monday the ceremony would give Bill Cosby the Johnny Carson Award for Comedic Excellence. It’s essentially a lifetime achievement award for the 76-year-old stand-up comedian and sitcom legend, who …
The American Comedy Awards just added one more category to the mix at the last minute (after voting for everything else had ended March 18 (see above!)), to recognize stand-up comedians who play concert-sized rooms and not just clubs. After culling names from the “Industry Committee” (we each received three …
Just hours after voting closed overnight for the 2014 American Comedy Awards, the event has added a new category: CONCERT COMIC. And it’s a good thing, too. Because if you looked at the American Comedy Awards nominees for “CLUB COMIC” for more than a hot second, you quickly would have …
The more comedy awards change, the more they stay familiar, if not completely within the family. Charlie Haykel of Don Mischer Productions executive produced The Comedy Awards in 2011 and 2012 for Comedy Central and Viacom, and he’s back again in charge of the newly revamped American Comedy Awards, to …
The American Comedy Awards are back in a new format and on a new network (NBC), announcing the nominees on Wednesday night with voting open to you through March 18, 2014. UPDATED: The awards were handed out May 8, 2014 (not the 15th as pictured above). HERE ARE THE WINNERS …
The Comedy Awards may have left us, but the American Comedy Awards have returned. Hooray, America!? NBC announced on Wednesday that it had acquired the rights to the American Comedy Awards — which had aired from the 1980s through 2001, and created by George Schlatter — with a new revived …
