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Comedy Central’s new leaner production/programming strategy continues to surprise, as is the case with the announcement of three more new half-hours, all to be filmed Sept. 15, 2021, at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn alongside a bunch of shorter stand-up showcase sets for the network’s digital platforms. Caleb Synan, Ismael …
Comedy Central is staying in the half-hour special business in 2021, filming three new half-hours this weekend in New York City. Ian Lara, RB Butcher and Yedoye Travis will get the Comedy Central special treatment on July 30, filming their half-hours at The Knitting Factory in Brooklyn. The July 30 …
Comedy Central teased the return of Stephen Colbert on our screens the other night. Turns out it’s all to trumpet tha new talk show from radio personality Charlamagne Tha God, which Colbert will executive produce for Comedy Central. Tha God’s Honest Truth with Lenard ‘Charlamagne’ McKelvey, a weekly half hour …
Comedy Central hasn’t completely given up on original programming, after all. Despite huge cutbacks in programming and personnel since the end of 2019, Comedy Central hasn’t lost faith in Awkwafina, announcing the second season of Awkwafina is Nora From Queens. And here’s a clip! Awkwafina is Nora From Queens returns Wednesday, …
Josh Johnson is a stand-up comedian and writer from Louisiana who began his comedy career in Chicago. Since moving to New York City, he has performed on late-night TV via Conan, The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Kevin Hart Presents: Hart of the City, Netflix’s The Comedy Lineup, and a half-hour special …
Paul W. Downs and Lucia Aniello began collaborating as comedy and life partners after meeting in 2007 at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre and Magnet Theater in New York City. Their early efforts included a webseries for Broadway Video’s Above Average Productions and a one-man show, The Paul Downs Experience, …
Three months after Donald Trump left the White House, Comedy Central’s Jordan Klepper reflected on his 14 months covering the 2020 Trump campaign in a new half-hour special, in The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers The Pulse – Into The MAGAverse, From an undisclosed parking lot in …
Is comedy’s Roast Era over? Or just in time-out like much everything else thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic? We’ll have to wait to find out. But as Diallo Riddle pointed out in the first episode of Comedy Central’s Hall of Flame: Top 100 Comedy Central Roast Moments, which aired Monday …
Congrats to Phoebe Robinson on not letting the pandemic stop her from making her first starring Comedy Central TV show! Doing the Most with Phoebe Robinson will premiere on Friday, April 9 at 11 p.m. ET/PT, with a second episode airing at 11:30 p.m. The 10-episode half-hour series stars Robinson …
It’s rather noticeable that the person who helped bring roasts to Comedy Central is nowhere to be seen or heard from in the cable network’s forthcoming weeklong celebration of Hall of Flame: Top 100 Roast Moments, planned for March 29 through April 2, 2021, at 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific. This first …
