The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Here are your nominees for 2014 Emmy Awards in TV comedy. Will update with more categories and breakdowns, but for now, congrats to all! Making a big splash this year definitely is Netflix, with its decision to Orange Is the New Black in comedy earning the streaming site a series …
Forget everything you read in the gossip pages about what Katt Williams is doing offstage. HBO has set a date for his newest stand-up special, directed by Spike Lee. “Katt Williams: Priceless” will premiere Saturday, Aug. 16, 2014. Here’s the first official trailer of Williams back onstage doing his thing. …
Dave Hill‘s live show tonight in Brooklyn is titled Meet Me In The Bathroom and Tell Me All Your Secrets. Hill’s fans, meanwhile, already are asking everyone to meet online at Change.org and tell everyone — specifically and most particularly, Stephen Colbert — via petition to “Hire Dave Hill as …
John Oliver’s Last Week Tonight is embracing its subversive side more and more a month into its run on HBO. Last night, Oliver reported on Syran President Bashar al-Assad, who despite years of civil war that has him finding new ways to kill his own people, still remains in power …
New rule? Bill Maher will perform his next stand-up special live on HBO from Washington, D.C., immediately after hosting a live one-hour episode of his long-running HBO series Real Time with Bill Maher. The back-to-back doubleheader happens Sept. 12, 2014, from Sidney Harman Hall, then moves over to Warner Theatre. Real …
When Danny McBride first appeared on HBO’s Eastbound & Down, he was a down-and-out Major League Baseball pitcher returning back to his hometown as a gym teacher at his old middle school. After four successful seasons and multiple comebacks, HBO welcomes back McBride and his creative partner Jody Hill for …
I’ve been seeing this ad for at least a week or two, and it still confuses me. Yes, we know it’s baseball season, and time for the latest update to the MLB videogame of choice, and oooh, look at how realistic the graphics are in 2014. It’s almost like you’re …
Katt Williams told us he was coming back. He told us just last week on Arsenio. Spike Lee just directed a young comic’s first HBO stand-up special last night with Jerrod Carmichael. On May 17, 2014, Lee will direct Katt Williams in his big comeback, also for HBO — as …
Jerrod Carmichael might be the 10th-billed actor in the new movie, Neighbors — 11th if you count both of the babies playing the infant child of Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne in what already is the funniest film of 2014. He’s certainly the least recognizable of the four main fraternity brothers …
Sometimes a name really comes in handy as a brand. Arrested Development found its development arrested by FOX in 2006, only to resurface in the past year online by Netflix. Another series from the mid-2000s is back. Lisa Kudrow’s The Comeback is making a comeback on HBO, as the pay-cable network …
