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Netflix has announced premiere dates for its upcoming slate of original series and stand-up comedy specials including the long-awaited reunion of Wet Hot American Summer, as a miniseries prequel (WHAS: First Day of Camp) on July 17. Just take a look at the confirmed cast: The streaming service also has …
Justin Bieber turns 21 on March 1, and what music superstar idol turned rapscallion and ne’er-do-well wouldn’t want to be given a dose of comeuppance by famous funny people? That’s the idea behind Comedy Central’s announcement this week that Bieber will star as the next victim of its celebrity roasts. …
Amy Schumer will play Carnegie Hall this November! Bill Cosby, too! They’re among the headliners announced today for this fall’s 11th annual New York Comedy Festival, to run Nov. 5-9, 2014, across the city, presented by Caroline’s on Broadway in conjunction with Comedy Central. The festival announced the lineup through …
Hot off the heels of performing individually and collectively in Montreal’s Just For Laughs, the cast of Undateable received news late Thursday that NBC had picked up their summer series for 10 more episodes, with season two coming in 2015. The sitcom seemingly burned through all its 13-epiosde debut season …
Sometimes the casting process really is about finding a group of friends who already have chemistry offscreen and then translating it to the TV screen. Silicon Valley features a house full of guys who have improvised and performed together from Chicago to New York City to Los Angeles to HBO. …
You probably heard about, if you didn’t also already see, the hologram of the late Michael Jackson performing at Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards, televised live to an audience of millions. The Billboard Music Awards are perhaps the least surprising awards of all in “Awards Season,” as each of the …
NBC still hasn’t announced a premiere date for midseason sitcom Undateable, but by sending out its four stand-up comedian stars (Chris D’Elia, Ron Funches, Brent Morin, Rick Glassman) on a tour that starts Sunday in New York City and hits nine major TV markets through the end of March, you’d …
Happy 2014, everybody! Before we plunge forward into the new year, let’s take a look back at what caught the fancy of comedy fans over the past year. Here were the 10 most popular posts of 2013 on The Comic’s Comic, and what they said and still say about us. …
When Chris D’Elia told Conan O’Brien a couple of weeks ago that he had made a friend and a fan in Justin Bieber, D’Elia wasn’t joking. Well, D’Elia is a comedian and actor, so he jokes for a living. Which is why the Biebs likes him so. And he wasn’t …
Welcome to Upfronts! The annual TV pageant in which each network puts its new shows and returning hit series on display for potential advertisers. This differs from the summer and winter press tours only insomuch as these parades of stars aren’t explicitly for the TV Critics Association — no dedicated press-conference …
