The Definitive Guide to Comedy
These first five promos for FX’s The Comedians don’t really tell you much about plot or character development, but they do let you know that stars Billy Crystal and Josh Gad are, indeed, comedians. In a new series about comedians. Making a comedy show. And since it’s about comedy, some …
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 …
700 Sundays debuted on a Saturday night on HBO. Not that it matters. Because Billy Crystal’s one-man show spans seven decades and all seven days of the week, looking back on a long and storied career. The title refers to the approximate number of days Crystal knew his father before …
FX just announced it’s bringing Billy Crystal back to primetime TV, as star of The Comedians, which has received an initial order of 13 episodes for its first season, to debut in 2015. Crystal plays a version of himself, essentially — “a superstar veteran comedian” — paired up with a …
“Thank you everybody! Watch Jimmy Fallon! Thanks folks, see ya later. I’m coming home, honey!” — Jay Leno’s last words on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC, Feb. 6, 2014 But before that. Just before that, came this heartfelt goodbye from Leno behind the desk, as he teared up …
Mindy Kaling’s The Mindy Project on FOX has made no secret of its love for romantic comedy tropes, and particularly the film When Harry Met Sally, even incorporating scenes from that movie into the sitcom and the world of its characters. A fan last week made the case that the …
The Grammy Awards have a longstanding reputation for being terminally unhip, and then trying to right that by swinging to the other extreme and rewarding the trendiest recording artists of the moment. The 56th annual Grammy Awards nominees are no different in that respect. Even in, and perhaps even more …
If you feel like you’ve missed out already on Billy Crystal’s revival of his one-man show on Broadway, 700 Sundays, then don’t worry so long as you have HBO in 2014. The autobiographical show — written by Crystal along with Alan Zweibel — returned to Broadway last month and runs …
Billy Crystal publishes a new memoir this week, Still Foolin’ ‘Em: Where I’ve Been, Where I’m Going, and Where the Hell Are My Keys?, so you either have been and/or will continue to see quite a bit of the comedian in the days and nights to come. Will you still …
Billy Crystal may be a native New Yorker, but his heartstrings forever tug for his hometown of Long Beach, the Long Island town where the 65-year-old grew up. So when Long Beach needed someone to tell everyone else that the city had reopened for beach business this summer — 10 …
