The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Chris Hardwick has another late-night TV talk show coming to a TV or mobile viewing device near you next week, and he’s not talking dead, nor is he talking bad… He’s talking about everything else in the news, at midnight, @midnight, on Comedy Central. The show debuts Monday, Oct. 21, …
They’ve spent up to 17 seasons on their own deadlines, pushing animation to the limit to bring you a fresh new episode of South Park. In the 2011 documentary, South Park, 6 Days to Air, you saw how creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker made it all happen. This week, the dynamic …
Over the past few years, Comedy Central has embraced the transition to digital consumption — first with releasing stand-up comedy albums in digital-only releases, and more recently with production and distribution of webseries that don’t make it onto the cable TV channel. Today, Comedy Central announced an internal restructuring of …
Want more Breaking Bad? So does Stephen Colbert. At the end of Monday night’s The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, Colbert jokingly revealed he had locked guest Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad‘s creator and series finale writer/director, in chains in a basement under the studio, forcing him to write additional storylines. …
Tina Fey and Tracey Wigfield did not win the Emmy this year for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics, but the 30 Rock finale episode they wrote (“Last Lunch”) that included the “Rural Juror” song did win for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, so that’s got to count for something. …
AMC is rebroadcasting all five-plus seasons of Breaking Bad beginning next week so everyone can get all caught up in time for the explosive series finale of one of the greatest ever dramatic series to grace our television sets. So why not also sit down and laugh out loud for …
Comedy Central’s sketch comedy series, Key & Peele, returns for its third-season premiere tonight. From the start of each premise, through a wonderful job of heightening and tight closing buttons to sketches, it’s simply great comedy. And the tremendous onscreen chemistry between leads Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele certainly adds even …
Bob Newhart starred in two classic hit sitcoms — The Bob Newhart Show, 1972-1978, and Newhart, 1982-1990 — but it wasn’t until last night that he could take home his first Emmy, as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, for The Big Bang Theory. Newhart just turned 84 this …
Comedy Central Roasts are all in good fun, “but it’s brutal!” So said Sarah Silverman, interviewed by W. Kamau Bell on Thursday night’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. “I think the secret about roasts is, everybody laughs. People were saying mean things about me, I was like, ‘Ha-ha-hahaha-ha,’ and …
Ari Shaffir’s “This Is Not Happening,” a storytelling webseries on Comedy Central via CC:Studios, originated as a live show at the Hollywood Improv’s side “lab” room in which stand-up comedians could share experiences from their lives that didn’t fit neatly within the confines of their stand-up sets or personas. Not …
