The Definitive Guide to Comedy
After just 28 episodes over seven weeks, VICE LIVE has died at the hands of its creator, the TV channel Viceland. The live late-night program featured comedians Marie Faustin, Zack Fox, Sandy Honig and rapper/host Fat Tony. “For the past two months, Vice Live has been doing it live from our …
Get ready for A Little Late with Lilly Singh, coming this September to NBC’s late-night lineup following The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and Late Night with Seth Meyers. Singh, an Indian-Canadian whose Superwoman channel on YouTube has 14 million subscribers, is replacing Carson Daly, who had hosted the 1:35 …
Refinery29, has entered the late-night talk show realm, but it’s hosting its After After Party on Facebook Watch. The nightly show kicks off at 9 p.m. Eastern on Aug. 13, with comedian Sonia Denis hosting. The format includes panel discussions with comedians, journalists and celebrity guests. Among those booked already: actress Regina Hall …
You don’t have to be Nell Scovell to know the gender ratio is and always has been rather bleak for hiring women to write for late-night TV talk shows. Although Scovell, one of the rare women hired to write for David Letterman over multiple decades, certainly has crunched all of …
Who is Nell Scovell? She’s the creator of Sabrina, the Teenage Witch, first staff writer hired for SPY magazine, second woman ever to write for The Simpsons, and one of only a handful of women to ever write for David Letterman. Scovell’s other TV credits include Murphy Brown, Coach and …
Jay Leno, the two-time former host of The Tonight Show, insists he doesn’t miss the late-night TV game, even though he still watches all of the hosts occupying the space now in 2018. Leno talked to The Hollywood Reporter this week to promote the new season of his CNBC series, …
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] Two weeks ago, I rounded up all of the writing staffs working on America’s nightly late-night TV comedy talk shows. Say that three times fast! Easier said than trying to say all the names of the writers three times fast, I’ll tell …
Welcome to the late-night TV hosting club, Robin Thede! Thursday night’s premiere of The Rundown with Robin Thede on BET proved that Thede had a lot more to offer than we saw in her brief tenure as head writer and correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. As …
Something remarkable happened on Wednesday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. It wasn’t one of the many game shows within Fallon’s talk shows, or something his musical guest performed, or anything from Fallon’s monologue or from his overly enthusiastic interactions with his guests. Nor was it even particularly …
Fans of Jon Stewart may still be lamenting his departure from The Daily Show some two years ago, but Comedy Central has gotten exactly what they sought when they replaced Stewart with Trevor Noah, appealing to the next generation of 18-34 year-olds. Since The Daily Show with Trevor Noah began …
