The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedy Central unveiled a new and improved website for the late, great sketch comedy series, Key & Peele. The site includes everything you saw (or didn’t see) on TV the first time around — including 176 sketches that hadn’t yet made the leap to online archives for sharing and caring. …
The TV Land Icon Awards 2016 aired on Sunday night, and handed out several new Icon Awards, including an Instant Icon to Cuba Gooding Jr. for his portrayal of O.J. Simpson in the just-concluded FX miniseries, The People vs. O.J. Simpson, and to Debbie Allen the Trailblazer Icon for her …
Talk about counter-programming. Squarespace hired Key & Peele — aka Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele — to provide live running commentary throughout Super Bowl 50 while playing the roles of aspiring sportscasters Lee and Morris this Sunday. Only they’re not going to talk about the actual football game. Or say …
Comedy Central has released its summer 2015 plans for new and returning programming, which will see the debuts of period-piece-parody Another Period starring Natasha Leggero and Riki Lindhome, Why? With Hannibal Buress, hour-long stand-up specials from Leggero, Jeffrey Ross, Bridget Everett and Nick Swardson, and new seasons from Key & Peele, Tosh.0, Drunk History, Review and The …
In case you missed it last week, President Barack Obama surprised the White House Correspondents’ Dinner by bringing out his “anger translator,” Luther — aka comedian Keegan-Michael Key, who portrays the character as a recurring bit in Comedy Central’s Key & Peele. The White House released footage over the weekend …
Can you picture hearing “A-A-Ron?” on the big screen? If it was good enough for Saturday Night Live in the 1990s, then why not for one of the critically-acclaimed sketch shows of the 2010s? Key & Peele has spun off one of its Comedy Central sketch characters, substitute teacher Mr. …
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 …
In case you missed it on the original audio podcast earlier this month, you now can watch Kent Alterman, Comedy Central’s president of original programming, speak for 73 minutes with Andy Greenwald of Grantland about Alterman’s career arc. Alterman met Amy Poehler and the founding four of the Upright Citizens Brigade …
Comedy Central’s sketch comedy series, Key & Peele, returns for its third-season premiere tonight. From the start of each premise, through a wonderful job of heightening and tight closing buttons to sketches, it’s simply great comedy. And the tremendous onscreen chemistry between leads Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele certainly adds even …
Kevin McDonald is a solo act in 2013, but the Kids in the Hall comedian isn’t alone. McDonald is touring North America, teaching aspiring comedians how to write their own sketches, and also sometimes performing alongside them in improv theaters. McDonald spoke backstage with The Comic’s Comic at The PIT …
