Comedy Headlines for 5/29/13
by What’s making news in comedy… Comedy Central has renewed Inside Amy Schumer. Amy Schumer’s sketch comedy series, currently airing on Tuesday nights, will return with …
Tag: Community
Upfront about Upfronts: The state of the sitcom at NBC, May 2013
Welcome to Upfronts! The annual TV pageant in which each network puts its new shows and returning hit series on display for potential advertisers. This …
Interviews / Movies / TV / Uncategorized
Broken Lizard’s Jay Chandrasekhar on directing sitcoms, Freeloaders and the future of TV/movie distribution
Jay Chandrasekhar is best known as the ringleader of sketch comedy troupe Broken Lizard, but he’s also a stand-up comedian and an in-demand director, helming …
Sony Pictures made a #RenewCommunity YouTube video to try to save its NBC sitcom
The fourth season of NBC’s Community is the first without its creator and spiritual meta-guide, but will it be the last for the sitcom that …
NBC’s Community: Four Seasons and Syndication!?
After a brief interruption, NBC’s Community returned for its belated fourth season earlier this month. Cast members of the sitcom and their fans have used …
A Christmas 2012 clip from NBC’s “Community,” which returns in 2013
NBC’s Community doesn’t return to the TV airwaves until Feb. 7, 2013, so the sitcom’s fourth-season Christmas episode might seem a little out of season …
Dan Harmon’s keynote address to the XOXO Festival
Dan Harmon, the creator and former showrunner of NBC’s Community — as well as co-founder of Channel 101 — delivered the keynote address in September …
Audio / TV / Uncategorized
Comedy Headlines for 12/3/12
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Howard Stern will return in 2013 for a second season as judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Former …
Comedy Headlines for 11/26/12
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Chevy Chase left the NBC sitcom Community on Wednesday during production of its fourth season — which the …
Comedy Headlines for 10/31/12
What’s happening in the comedy world now…TRICK OR TREAT! I posted yesterday about the impending holes in NBC’s Thursday-night lineup for 2013, and yesterday, the …