The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedy Get Down, the all-star comedy tour that has been hitting up cities near you for the past year, is poised to join BET, The Comic’s Comic has learned. The comedians are set to present their new TV exploits today at the BET Upfronts in New York City. Comedy Get …
Promoting his new movie, Barbershop: The Next Cut, Cedric The Entertainer fielded a question from VH1’s Sway about how comedy has evolved. The o.g. Original Kings of Comedy alum — who’s touring now with a crew of D.L. Hughley, George Lopez, Eddie Griffin and Charlie Murphy for The Comedy Get …
The Soul Man on TV Land will go LIVE for its fourth-season premiere on March 18 with stars Cedric The Entertainer, Niecy Nash and Wesley Jonathan. Roll the tease. Sherri Shepherd will guest star in the live season premiere as Nikki, Boyce’s (Cedric) unruly cousin. Live episodes have become a …
Back in November, George Lopez got Cedric the Entertainer, Mike Epps, Eddie Griffin and D.L. Hughley together for a fund-raiser in Peoria, Ill., to erect a statue in the hometown of the late, great Richard Pryor. Charlie Murphy was there, too. The six stand-up comedians had so much fun performing …
Chris Rock said he came up with the idea and started writing the screenplay for Top Five during idle time on the set of Grown Ups 2. If only all or even any of his other cast members could reach a similar epiphany! All comparisons to Annie Hall aside, Rock …
Is this the great Chris Rock movie we’ve all been waiting for? Early reviews from the Toronto International Film Festival say Rock’s Top Five easily will be in the top five movies he has ever appeared in. The first official trailer debuted tonight at Brooklyn’s Barclays Center as part of …
An all-star lineup of stand-up comedians will play in Peoria so that a comedic legend’s statue can stand tall in that town for generations to come. George Lopez, Cedric the Entertainer, D.L. Hughley, Eddie Griffin and Mike Epps will headline “A Night For Richard,” on Nov. 2 at the Peoria …
The Toronto International Film Festival announced its slate of world premieres, gala screenings and more this morning, and both Jon Stewart’s directorial debut as well as Chris Rock’s latest both will make their world premieres there this September. Rosewater rose straight from a guest’s appearance on The Daily Show with …
Connecticut is a long way from Hollywood. Too far, it appears, for Cedric The Entertainer to handle a bicoastal life as host of syndicated game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire, star of TV Land’s The Soul Man, and pursue other projects. So he has quit the game show. …
Scott Bateman knows what it’s like to have multiple identities and realities. Sure, he has a couple thousand followers of his personal Twitter feed @Disalmanacarian, but that’s nothing compared to the almost 70,000 following him @Disalmanac, the feed that has birthed fun facts and witty charts and graphs — which …
