The Definitive Guide to Comedy
With an Emmy nomination and lots of controversy, Bill Maher has won enough approval from HBO to garner him three more years of “Real Time” on Friday nights. Already renewed for season 16 in 2018, Real Time with Bill Maher received an order for two additional seasons today by HBO. …
Sam Morril has sat courtside for the New York Knicks. Now the comedian is getting a prime slot on the TV network that broadcasts Knicks games. People Talking Sports* (*and Other Stuff) will premiere in late-night on MSG Network on July 10. Page Six broke the news. MSG has broadcast …
Loved the debut last night of The Jim Jefferies Show on Comedy Central. Even excluding the A-list celebrity cameo by Brad Pitt as the show’s weatherman to deliver our forecast in the wake of President Trump’s pull-out from the Paris global climate agreement. Something about the tone and posture of …
Conan will reign in late-night on TBS for at least five more years, as the network just announced a deal keeping Conan O’Brien and Team Coco in the fold through 2022, along with a new 90-minute late-night block of programming for Super Deluxe, and orders for four new primetime series. …
Jordan Klepper is graduating from The Daily Show to his own late-night series on Comedy Central this fall. But first! Jordan Klepper Solves Guns! The network is giving Klepper an hour special at 11 p.m. Sunday, June 10, 2017, to explore gun rights and legislation in his own comedy journalistic …
BET may have leaked word early about the network’s upcoming new late-night talk show hosted by former Nightly Show head writer/correspondent Robin Thede (and executive produced by Chris Rock), but BET actually has a whole slate of late-night programming coming later in 2017. Among the offerings: A variety show fronted …
BET hasn’t had a full-fledged late-night talk show since Mo’Nique went nightly back in 2009-2011. The network is diving back in this fall with Robin Thede’s The Rundown. BET is giving The Rundown an initial 24-week order; it’ll air weekly for a half-hour, with a launch date and time to be …
Red Eye, the late-night comedy and politics roundtable hosted in recent years by stand-up Tom Shillue, has reached its final destination. FOX News confirmed the show was ending this week, to be replaced by reruns. Greg Gutfield originally hosted Red Eye, which aired at 3 a.m. Eastern (midnight Pacific), and …
Finally! Continuing in Comedy Central’s grand tradition of producing groundbreaking late night formats, comes The President Show. Just like a certain chief executive in Washington, The President Show gleefully tosses out the rulebook of its predecessors. Created by Anthony Atamanuik who hosts as Donald J. Trump, and produced by Clone …
I received a press release this morning, the same release you saw on Twitter later if you happened to follow @PresidentShow. “Late night TV is broken. A TOTAL DISASTER. I alone can fix it!” "Late night TV is broken. A TOTAL DISASTER. I alone can fix it!" https://t.co/u3HObey9FO — The …
