The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah has poached a top writer/contributor from Late Night with Seth Meyers, announcing Michelle Wolf has joined TDS as a writer and on-air contributor. The hiring happened last week, but Comedy Central waited until after last week’s Upfronts to make the announcement. Wolf …
When Fred Armisen isn’t remaking Portland into Portlandia with Carrie Brownstein for IFC (their sixth-season finale airs Thursday), he’s playing drums for Late Night with Seth Meyers. Or is he? As Armisen explains in this video for The New York Times T Mag, it’s easy to fake being a drummer. …
For as much as we think we know about the making of each Saturday Night Live episode, we still don’t get to see the magic of those early Monday pitch meetings, when the cast and writers meet with that week’s host and offer up ideas for sketches. I imagine JB …
In this age of “Too Much TV,” we’re also here in New York City living in the age of Too Much Tuna. Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland are peaking. Their Off-Broadway run at the Cherry Lane Theatre has drawn rave reviews from The New York Times and other comedians, …
If Louis CK writes, directs, edits and stars in his FX comedy series, Louie, then what’s left for a co-producer to do? That’s Steven Wright’s role on the show, and Wright explained how he started working with CK and what that works entails, in this appearance on Wednesday night’s Late …
Aparna Nancherla has performed stand-up on Conan, @midnight and Last Comic Standing, and previously worked as a writer and performer on FX/FXX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Nancherla recently started a new gig as a monologue writer for another late-night TV talk show, NBC’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. Nancherla told me …
Carol Burnett visited Late Night with Seth Meyers on Thursday night and recalled the times that Lucille Ball guested on Burnett’s hit sketch comedy series, The Carol Burnett Show. From one red-headed comedy icon running a hit show to another, Burnett recalled how Ball had a mastery of her production …
Fresh off of his Last Comic Standing Season 9 win broadcast in primetime Wednesday night, Clayton English began putting that NBC contract and development deal into full promo mode, performing later that night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, then this morning literally being backed into a corner by the …
Michael Kosta worries that his first name isn’t memorable enough, but as he relates in this performance from Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, it runs in the family. The kind of family that celebrates half-birthdays. It’s the gift that keeps on giving. Unlike a destination wedding. That’s a once …
