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Comedy Central released its development slate today for 2018-2019, and topping the list are two new series: Alternatino with Arturo Castro and This Week at the Comedy Cellar. “With an exciting mix of established and emerging talent, our current development slate continues Comedy Central’s rich legacy of working with the most distinct and …
Broad City will end in 2019 with its fifth and final season, but Comedy Central wants you to know it’ll remain in business with Broad City’s creators and stars. Ilana Glazer and Abbi Jacobson signed a ‘first look’ deal to develop series not only with Comedy Central, but with all …
It has been a couple of years since the most recent Comedy Central Roast (Rob Lowe, 2016, in case you had forgotten). Well, time’s up. Um, maybe not those words. But there will be a new Comedy Central Roast this summer, and the Roastee will be Bruce Willis. It’ll tape …
Trevor Moore and Comedy Central believe Facebook isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Moore will host a live 24-hour talk show onComedy Central Stand-Up’s Facebook on April 19 to promote his newest one-hour comedy special for Comedy Central, Trevor Moore: The Story of Our Times, which will debut at midnight April 20. “Comedy …
The Daily Show second-generation poaching is in full effect now, as Netflix has just announced its second new weekly talk-show from a correspondent who up until now was currently sidekicking it for Trevor Noah on Comedy Central. Netflix has ordered 32 weekly episodes of a Hasan Minhaj talk show. It’ll …
Ali Siddiq spent six years in prison, serving time in various jails and penitentiaries after an arrest at 19 for drug possession. Twenty years later, Siddiq went back. It’s Bigger Than These Bars, premiering Friday night on Comedy Central, finds Siddiq performing for and talking to inmates at Bell County …
No sophomore slump for Comedy Central’s Clusterfest. The second annual comedy, music and arts festival planned for the first weekend in June will be headlined by Amy Schumer, The Lonely Island and both present and past hosts of The Daily Show in Trevor Noah and Jon Stewart. Clusterfest 2018 also …
Daniel Tosh will continue making fun of your Internet videos on Comedy Central through 2020. The network announced the contract extension today. Tosh.0‘s 10th season will premiere March 27, 2018. “Knowing when to move on in show business is highly overrated,” said Tosh. “I know it makes Daniel uncomfortable to publicly …
Ali Siddiq served six years of a 15 year sentence for drug trafficking in the Texas state penitentiary system. He also started performing comedy. Now for his first one-hour special, Ali Siddiq: It’s Bigger Than These Bars, he’s back behind bars at Bell County Jail in Belton, Texas. Ali Siddiq: It’s Bigger Than These …
As the annual SF Sketchfest closes the books on another successful January celebrating comedy by the Bay, Comedy Central has announced it, too, will continue its own comedy festival as an annual tradition this June. Clusterfest will return June 1-3, 2018. Pre-sale tickets available this Feb. 1. I was there …
