The Definitive Guide to Comedy
It’s a great day and late-night for Iliza Shlesinger today. The former Last Comic Standing winner’s third Netflix stand-up special, Confirmed Kills, debuted in the morning, and by afternoon, the cable channel Freeform (formerly ABC Family) announced it’d try to develop a late-night TV show for her. “A late-night show …
Larry Wilmore built his Nightly Show on Comedy Central around the concept of “Keeping it 100,” and in the final week of shows on TV, Wilmore has made that even more evident — not only by ditching the idea of producing new segments Tuesday night (joking that he and his …
Desperate times call for desperate measures. The Emmy Awards announced nominees last week for the first time in some 16 years not naming Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert. On Monday night, both returned to late-night TV in glorious measure. Stephen Colbert teased Stewart’s appearance on The Late Show, but it …
NBC News had touted its big exclusive interview with David Letterman for broadcast this past Sunday, but pre-empted it to air a special report from Orlando instead following last weekend’s shooting massacre there. So Letterman’s interview with Tom Brokaw “On Assignment” for Dateline NBC finally aired last night. We got …
Remember how your parents and grandparents warned you growing up about how to protect yourself in the case of a mass shooting? No. They were more worried about global thermonuclear war killing us all, than they were of a single madman shooting up a church, a movie theater or a …
Short-form comedy segments in late-night TV all are the rage now, as IFC becomes the third cable channel to jump into the field, announcing today that its Comedy Crib collection of more than two dozen webseries will begin airing on TV come Fall 2016. The weekly half-hour episodes of Comedy …
Forget fire in the belly. Samantha Bee has something stirring in her “swamp.” Her word. Not mine. What already has set Bee and her weekly TBS series apart from the late-night talkers, variety hosts and satirists out there? Her passion. From standing front and center to face her audience instead …
Congrats to Erin Gibson and Bryan Safi, the comedians who co-host the Throwing Shade podcast, as they’re about to join the late-night TV ranks with a series order today from TV Land. Throwing Shade‘s 10-episode order will premiere in January 2017 in the 11 p.m. ET/PT timeslot. Gibson and Safi …
CBS announced a new showrunner today for The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, moving Eric Licht from his executive producer gig on the morning shift for CBS This Morning to help steer the late-night ship into more comfortable long-term territory. Before you rush to write your hot-take thinkpieces about how …
NBCUniversal’s exclusive “Late Night Writers Workshop” happens over a week in April, and the TV conglomerate has released the names of the chosen few who’ll get an intensive look behind the scenes of late-night television. “We are excited and proud to announce the writers chosen for this year’s 2016 NBCUniversal …
