The Definitive Guide to Comedy
For a third consecutive year, Comedy Central will head to Boston to tape half-hour specials for stand-up comedians. The Half Hour boasts 15 new specials to air in 2014. So who’s recording half-hours this year? UPDATED: You can secure free tickets to watch The Half Hour tapings in Boston from …
That “Dumb Starbucks” that opened last weekend in the Los Feliz neighborhood of Los Angeles and offered free coffee drinks to customers? That was the latest bright idea of Nathan Fielder, host and brainchild of Comedy Central’s Nathan For You. Fielder revealed himself on Monday with a video and press …
In the parallel universe of “Stephen Colbert,” he attended theater camp with Buddy Cole and later hired him as a producer for The Colbert Report. We know better, that Buddy Cole is a longtime character of Kids in the Hall’s Scott Thompson, and a perfect person to report on the …
The Writers Guild of America held their annual awards in both New York City and Los Angeles on Saturday night, with Colin Quinn hosting on the East Coast, and Brad Garrett later on the West Coast. Congratulations to this year’s comedy and variety winners! COMEDY SERIES Veep, Written by Simon Blackwell, …
For far too many stand-up comedians, crowd work is a crutch to lean against when you don’t have material. For far too many audience members, crowd work means a fear that a stand-up comedian will make fun of you. But it’s something special when Todd Barry does it. You’ll find …
Not pictured: Kevin Allison and Todd Holoubek The nine other members of sketch group The State did reunite on the cable TV on Monday night and into the early hours of Tuesday past midnight for Comedy Central’s comedy game show, @midnight (for which Thomas Lennon is an executive producer). Michael Showalter, Kerri …
Tim Carvell, the head writer of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, celebrated his last day on Thursday. Carvell left to join John Oliver as executive producer of Oliver’s new weekly talk show that’ll debut on HBO later this year. Despite writing for Stewart for 10 years, Carvell …
Neal Brennan‘s first one-hour stand-up special does indeed focus squarely on his relationships with “Women and Black Dudes,” but before we get to his Comedy Central broadcast — which premieres uncensored at midnight this Saturday — let’s start at the ending. This is not a spoiler alert, insomuch as it …
Comedy Central announced two new half-hour series coming to the network later in 2014, with the pickups of 10 episodes each for Big Time in Hollywood, FL, and Moonbeam City. The announcements came Friday as the cable network took its turn before the TV Critics Association annual roundup in Pasadena, …
Two months ago, Stephen Colbert addressed Colbert Nation on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report and asked them to vote him a People’s Choice Award. Lo and behold, it worked! Colbert won the People’s Choice Award on Wednesday night’s telecast as Favorite Late-Night Talk Show Host. Here he is, via remote, …
