The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What’s happening in the comedy world these days… Joan Rivers turns 80 on June 8, and she and her daughter Mellissa will be part of a special edition of ABC’s Celebrity Wife Swap later this month, as they’re swapping with Bristol and Willow Palin? That’s June 23. Next week, E! …
HBO’s current original comedy stable revolves around Girls and Veep. They’ll be rejoined by a double dose of guys by 2014. The pay-cable network has announced pickups of two new comedy series, both set in and around the Bay Area of Northern California. Today came word of an HBO series …
Comedy Central has swooped in and grabbed another comedy series from the development plans of another cable network, ordering 12 episodes of Brody Stevens: Enjoy It! and unveiling a separate 17-episode webseries, “Push and Believe.” Enjoy It! originally ran for six 15-minute episodes online for HBO last year. Calling it Comedy …
The 72nd annual Peabody Awards recognized several comedies from 2012 and cited Lorne Michaels for his career accomplishments in comedy. From the University of Georgia and handed out since 1941, the George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious service by broadcasters, cable and Webcasters, producing organizations, and individuals. …
Louis C.K. gets to have his HBO trailer and mock it, too, in this clip promoting his latest stand-up comedy special, “Oh My God,” premiering on April 13, 2013. Roll the clip!
End cards or “vanity cards” as they are known derisively/accurately, are those logos and nonsense that flash at the end of TV shows for two seconds. To be accurate, this year it was cut from 2 seconds to 1 ½ seconds. I don’t know why the studio needed that extra …
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 …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… ABC has pulled Don’t Trust the B in Apt. 23 from its primetime schedule. Eight episodes remain unaired! New episodes of Happy Endings will air in that time slot, as well as its existing one. TBS has cancelled The Wedding Band after one …
In case you missed it, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler performed brilliantly as co-hosts of the 2013 Golden Globes awards ceremony. So much so that many viewers lamented their absence during the middle portion of the live broadcast on Sunday night. But who won? Aside from Lena Dunham and her …
Drunk History isn’t the first webseries to become a TV series, but it is among the more celebrated ones to make the jump. Comedy Central announced over the weekend at the TCA press tour that it had ordered eight half-hour episodes of “Drunk History” to air this summer. UPDATED: The …
