The Definitive Guide to Comedy
When Amy Schumer presents Rachel Feinstein tonight to Comedy Central, she really presents. Schumer not only gives Feinstein advice backstage in a pre-taped green room bit, but also walks onstage first, introducing her to the New York City crowd last November (I was at the taping) by saying of Feinstein: “This …
The first South African to host an American late-night talk show will be there in person this summer to find out if our country is ready to nominate the first Canadian-born president, first Jewish president, first female president, or as plenty have joked already, our last president of the United …
CBS announced a new showrunner today for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, moving Eric Licht from his executive producer gig on the morning shift for CBS This Morning to help steer the late-night ship into more comfortable long-term territory. Before you rush to write your hot-take thinkpieces about how …
Nikki Glaser opens her first Comedy Central hour striding backstage with complete poise, confidence, ready for what’s at hand, only to slip into the title credit. Perfect. Recorded before her breakthrough series Not Safe premiered on the network in February (“Perfect” also is what Glaser says over her series and …
Nikki Glaser stars in her own weekly Comedy Central series about sex and comedy, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, and will release her first hour stand-up special this weekend on the network: Perfect. Glaser started stand-up young enough to land on both Last Comic Standing and The Tonight Show by the …
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has poached a top writer/contributor from Late Night with Seth Meyers, announcing Michelle Wolf has joined TDS as a writer and on-air contributor. The hiring happened last week, but Comedy Central waited until after last week’s Upfronts to make the announcement. Wolf …
This just in! Here’s the press release with all of the details from Comedy Central…including two new showcase series hosted by Kevin Hart (when will he find the time?!?!?), a full TV series of Roast Battles from Jeff Ross and friends (plus a special in which Ross Roasts The Police), …
Comedy Central officially announced renewals or episode extensions for much of its current programming slate, just two days ahead of its annual Upfronts presentation to advertisers. Rookie sensation Not Safe with Nikki Glaser (reviewed here) receives 10 additional episodes, extending its first season through the summer. Originally the first season …
Comedy Central’s fake game show, @midnight, aired an unprecedented full-hour episode last night devoted to Trump vs. Bernie — aka comedians Anthony Atamanuik and James Adomian — as host Chris Hardwick moderated a debate version of the show instead. Click here to watch the @midnight Trump vs. Bernie episode in …
Jack Vaughn launched Comedy Central Records in 2002 thanks to his love of Mitch Hedberg and other unappreciated comedians of the time, and won four Best Comedy Album Grammys with them. A decade later, he moved to Hollywood and joined Comedy Dynamics and New Wave, where Vaughn executive produced and helped …
