The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Nobody asked about Windsor. And yet, time after time in a conference call on Monday, George Lopez made references to what he’d endured the night before a stand-up comedy gig last week in Canada. It seemed timely enough to remind reporters that he is not a saint. After six seasons …
J-L Cauvin found funny earlier this year by impersonating Louis C.K. telling and selling classic jokes, so here he is once more as 2013 turns into 2014, Cauvin one-ups himself by producing and starring in a webseries, “Louis CK’s Comedy Academy.” You want to be a comedian, you say? Watch …
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Improvisation comedy club’s opening in New York City (since closed in NYC, though The Improv chain has expanded to Los Angeles and currently in 22 other cities), the club has a new documentary out via EpixHD, The Improv: 50 Years Behind The …
George Lopez’s big break as a stand-up comedian came two decades ago, performing on the original version of The Arsenio Hall Show. As Magic Johnson said, reading Arsenio’s cue cards during the Sept. 11, 2013, episode, Lopez appeared 16 times on the “old” younger version of Arsenio. Hall did Lopez …
George Lopez is back in primetime, scoring a new deal made official today by FX to bring at least 10 episodes and perhaps 100 of his upcoming sitcom, Saint George. FX Network’s Executive Vice President Chuck Saftler just announced the “10/90” deal with Lionsgate Television and Debmar-Mercury for the half-hour, …
George Lopez is in the midst of a national stand-up comedy tour that runs through the summer — he has four shows over two nights this weekend (March 16-17, 2012) at Best Buy Theater in Times Square — but he has his sights on a return to the small screen …
With late-night TV pretty much done for the year (everyone’s airing repeats or is pre-empted for holiday programming for next week’s final week of 2011), we can take a step back and see who’s doing well and who didn’t make it to year’s end. How your favorite late-night talk show …
George Lopez has found a new gig to replace his late-night TV show on TBS, and it sends him cruising? Carnival Cruise Lines announced this week that it had hired Lopez to become the line’s “comedy curator,” and will rebrand its Punchliner Comedy Clubs as Punchliner Comedy Clubs Presented by George …
Thursday’s episode of Lopez Tonight was supposed to feature actress Raven and stand-up comedian Auggie Smith. But after TBS announced on Wednesday that it was pulling the plug on George Lopez’s late-night show rather than grant Lopez and his crew a full third-season order, Lopez ripped up the script and …
TBS announced today that it was canceling Lopez Tonight, the late-night vehicle for George Lopez that debuted in November 2009. For its 21-month-run, Lopez Tonight served as the only true successor to Arsenio Hall’s old late-night show on FOX, both in terms of energy and diversity. Here is the brief …
