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The CW continues its expansion into televised sketch, stand-up and improv comedy tonight with a 90-minute primetime special from last summer’s Just For Laughs Montreal gala hosted by Howie Mandel. It premieres at 8 tonight Eastern/Pacific, and also features performances by Pete Holmes, Jeff Ross, Jim Breuer, Marina Franklin, Fortune …
It’s a big day for Just For Laughs on both sides of the border today. In JFL’s native Canada, the organization responsible for the massive Montreal festival announced a new winter fest celebrating comedy in Vancouver, British Columbia — JFL NorthWest. And in the United States, The CW announced it’ll …
If Howard Stern has his way, all three of the comedic acts who performed Tuesday night on America’s Got Talent will advance to next week’s finals and have a chance to win the $1 million grand prize and a headlining show in Las Vegas. Watching the 11 acts perform live …
Just For Laughs, currently in the homestretch of its 33rd annual congregration of comedians and comedy bigwigs, has announced broadcast plans to share the laughs from this year’s live shows to TV audiences in the United States, Canada, Australia and wherever you can stream comedy showcases online. Here are the …
We’re ever so much closer to crowning a new winner on America’s Got Talent as this ninth season launched into semifinal action last night. NBC threw a big ol’ BBQ party inside 30 Rock to celebrate, inviting the remaining contestants, judges and select media to dig in, hoe down and …
If there ever were a challenge that I know I could have won on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, then this week’s Universal Studios Tram Experience challenge showed me the way. Back in the late 1990s, while living in Seattle as a young stand-up comedian and improviser myself, I got hired …
NBC’s press day at the summer TV Critics Association confab provided great news over the weekend for all three of its summer reality competitions — all of which also are hosted by or showcasing comedians. Last Comic Standing, currently mid-revival for season eight with new executive producers Wanda Sykes and …
You won’t see this on Last Comic Standing. Darik Santos, a 26-year-old comedian relatively new to the stand-up game, drove for hours across a state line and stood in line for six hours more to audition for this season of America’s Got Talent. He told the AGT audience he was …
NBC’s reboot of Last Comic Standing debuts Thursday with a two-hour premiere and the promise of mentors for the top 10 finalists picked from the 100 invited stand-up comedian contestants. Wanda Sykes, one of the Last Comic executive producers, will show up on camera as one of the mentors for …
“Smile! You’re on Candid Camera!” Candid Camera is back once more, this time coming to TV Land with 10 episodes this summer. The cable network announced the pick-up today, in conjunction with Peter Funt’s Candid Camera, Inc., and Ben Silverman’s Electus production house. “A remake of Candid Camera is the …
