The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Early ratings for Jimmy Kimmel’s first night of Jimmy Kimmel Live in the 11:35 p.m. start time placed him ahead of both Letterman and Leno? Yes and no. Kimmel pulled in 3.097 million viewers Tuesday night compared to 2.882 million for Letterman and …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… FX has ordered a fifth season of The League, with 13 more episodes to kick off during Fall 2013. Adult Swim has renewed the animated series adaptation of Black Dynamite for a second season. Ten episodes to come in about a year from …
A Charlie Brown Christmas first aired 47 Decembers ago in 1965, and continued its traditional primetime run in network telecasts Tuesday night on ABC. The kids at FOX ADHD, however, have served up an alternate universe for the Peanuts gang — one in which the kids not only have grown …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… FX has renewed Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell for a new, full 13-episode “second” season in 2013, as well as 13 episodes of an extended hour-long version of BrandX with Russell Brand. Both series are in their second of two short inaugural …
Doing a parody of the upcoming big-screen Steven Spielberg movie, Lincoln, is a foregone conclusion for Saturday Night Live. Having host Louis CK portray Lincoln in a spot-on parody of his own FX series, Louie, is a welcome surprise. Even more welcome, then, is this extended director’s cut of the …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… When you first heard of Charlie Sheen’s 10-episode that could become 100-episode deal with FX for Anger Management, you knew that meant you could wind up seeing twice as much Charlie Sheen on your regular TV dial in a few years, what with …
The last time I hung out with Jim Jefferies, we were not only in another country, but also in Doug Stanhope’s hotel room, before eventually taking the party to the hotel’s outdoor terrace as the sun rose over the French-Canadian skyline of Montreal. Jefferies was in full-blown “Alcoholocaust” mode then. …
What’s happening in the comedy world… Lewis Black’s limited run on Broadway, Running on Empty, opened last night. The eight performances go through Oct. 20, 2012, at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. FX announced it will postpone the broadcast of season four of Louie to spring 2014. It had been planned …
W. Kamau Bell had planned to leverage the first season of his FX late-night talk show into a successful stand-up comedy tour this fall. Turns out FX had even better plans for Bell, telling him to postpone that tour and keep Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell going for another …
Get ready for another long-running multi-camera sex-laden sitcom from Charlie Sheen. His FX series, Anger Management, has secured its 90-episode back-order after hitting its contractual ratings targets for its first 10-episode season. FX made the announcement Wednesday. We don’t know what pre-determined ratings target the show needed to hit to …
