The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Walking Dead, a show about life in Georgia just after the zombie apocalypse, has emerged this year as America’s most popular TV series — not just on cable, but also beating just about anything living and breathing on the broadcast networks among viewers 18-49. As the networks watch viewers …
Congratulations to Neal Brennan, Dov Davidoff, Michael Kosta, Kevin Smith and Ali Wong, who are the first named comedians (and filmmaker/talker — looking at you, Kevin Smith!) to film their own mini-sitcoms for network TV today under the auspices of FOX’s Shortcom Comedy Hour. Smith talked about his deal this …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… FOX shut down production on Ben & Kate over the weekend. The network earlier last week announced it had pulled the rookie sitcom from the primetime schedule. Thirteen episodes aired. HBO has renewed Lena Dunham’s Girls for a third season, as previously reported …
The world did not end on Dec. 21, 2012, as those who predicted the Mayan calendars said as much. But the comedy world may well implode in meta in summer 2013 with the release of This Is The End, because the film written/directed by Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg imagines …
What to say about Angus Jones, the proverbial other “half” of long-running CBS sitcom Two and a Half Men, who in his late teen-aged years, has renounced the show that has made him rich and famous. Rainn Wilson and Matthew Perry both decided to join in the “filthy” fun by …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Stephen Colbert revealed he’ll have a cameo in the upcoming movie trilogy adaptation of The Hobbit. Or will he? Colbert teased his visit to the movie set in an interview running in November’s issue of Playboy. Chevy Chase was grumpy again on the …
Seeing Craig Robinson in Montreal this summer at the keyboard, something about it looked very familiar, even though I couldn’t place it at the time. This was the guy from The Office and Judd Apatow productions Knocked Up and Pineapple Express, on the keyboards? I knew it made sense somehow. …
