The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Television Academy published the official nomination ballots last week, with voting open now until June 24. Nominees will be announced July 16. Let’s take a look at the category most coveted by stand-up comedians: Outstanding Variety Special (Pre-Recorded). It’s a relatively new category, renamed last year in an attempt …
Megan Amram, writer for The Good Place (and before that, Parks and Recreation), almost pulled off an incredible feat last year, getting nominated for two Emmy Awards by writing and starring in a webseries which she only wrote and starred in for the purposes of winning an Emmy. Amram is …
Comedians love credits, even more than barkers outside comedy clubs love misappropriating those credits. Emmy-winning comedian ranks right up there near the top. So congratulations to John Mulaney for his Emmy-winning stand-up special on Netflix, Kid Gorgeous at Radio City. Congrats, too, to Katt Williams and Tiffany Haddish, who not …
The best comedy on TV in 2018 centers on a female stand-up comedian in the late 1950s. If only reality could imitate art now. But for tonight, congrats to Amazon’s The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, which took home five Primetime Emmy Awards — including Outstanding Comedy Series, Outstanding Lead Actress (Rachel …
Over two nights last weekend, the Creative Arts Emmys celebrated many of the comedic efforts on TV and whatever you call TV in 2018. Among the first-time winners: Chris Redd and Kenan Thompson (pictured above) for writing the Saturday Night Live music video “Come Back Barack” (Outstanding Original Music and …
Nathan Fielder has proven quite successful at manipulating the media and business worlds, often at the same time, through his Comedy Central series Nathan For You. Now he’s potentially really outdone himself. And that’s saying something considering his most recent season finale. Because now, Fielder has gotten an election security …
Jim O’Heir is an Emmy-winning actor and comedian best known for co-starring as Jerry Gergich on the NBC sitcom Parks and Recreation. He’s a Chicago guy who trained at Second City in the 1980s, then thrived in an independent improv and sketch group called White Noise, which took him out to Hollywood. O’Heir enjoyed …
Normally the rotating networks who host the Emmy Awards each fall use it as an opportunity to showcase their star late-night talk-show host. NBC has done that before for both Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers. For 2018, though, they’re going with Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update duo of Colin Jost …
Louie Anderson won an Emmy Award for his performance as Christine Baskets in FX’s Baskets. He previously won Emmys two decades earlier for his voiceover work in his own animated series Life of Louie. He’s also hosted Family Feud, made a memorable early splash in the Eddie Murphy movie Coming …
In this era of Peak TV/Too Much TV, how will the Emmys appropriately recognize the most deserving shows? We’re starting to find out today with the release of the 68th Emmy Awards nominees. I’m personally excited the Emmys finally got wise to FX’s The Americans, even if it is a …
