The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedy Central has figured out part of its late-night lineup solution for 2017, and it involves getting high. Paging Doug Benson! Comedy Central announced today it has ordered a 15-minute weeknight late-night series from Benson, The High Court, which will see the comedian smoke up marijuana to get high before …
Goddamn! The Goddamn Comedy Jam special proved successful enough this summer for Comedy Central to order up eight more episodes for cable TV in 2017 — even if they’re dropping the profanity from the title, and just calling it The Comedy Jam from here on out. “We have been working …
Derek Waters is the co-creator and star of Drunk History, which has won both an Emmy and a Sundance Film Festival award and is now in its fourth season on Comedy Central after appearing on Funny or Die and HBO. A fifth season is forthcoming. But Drunk History wasn’t even …
The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, which began as a weekly stand-up showcase in 2010 the back of Hollywood’s Meltdown Comics and begat three seasons on Comedy Central, will be ending its six-year run next month, the stars and producers announced today. Their final live show will happen Wednesday, Oct. …
Comedy Central may no longer have the Emmy-winning Key & Peele, but the cable network will have Kasher and Leggero both on display in 2017. Comedy Central announced a series order today for Problematic with Moshe Kasher, a weekly talk show that will debut in 2017. Kasher’s wife, Natasha Leggero, …
The 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards, handed out Sunday night live on ABC, saved its biggest prizes for repeat winners but had plenty of opportunities to reward first-timers in the first half-hour of the telecast. In just the first few categories: Louie Anderson won his first Emmy Award, in the supporting …
In 2014, Comedy Central ordered an animated pilot for Power Moves, based on the book of the same title, that was based on the Twitter feed of @DadBoner, aka Karl Welzein, aka comedian Mike Burns. Comedy Central passed on the pilot. But today, it’s here for you to watch and …
There are two public sides to stand-up comedian Jeff Ross. There’s the “Roastmaster General” who takes on a different disguise each year for the Comedy Central roasts, turning the event into his own personal Halloween full of tricks and treats. For the Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe that aired …
Comedy Central Records has packaged all of the recorded jokes from the late, great Mitch Hedberg into an old-school-meets-new-school box set coming out in time for your holiday gift needs. “Mitch Hedberg: The Complete Vinyl Collection” is available now for pre-order on Amazon and will be released Nov. 4th, 2016. …
“Welcome to The Late Show. I’m your host, Larry Wilmore.” Wait, what? CBS opened cold on Thursday’s episode of The Late Show with Wilmore subbing in for regular host Stephen Colbert, even getting in one monologue joke amid chants of “Larry” before Colbert interceded. “I’m sorry, man. I thought whoever …
