The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Long live Chelsea Lately? Nope. Chelsea Handler’s late-night chat show on E! will end its seven-year run on Aug. 26, 2014, with a live hourlong finale. “I myself am more surprised than anyone that I was able to hold down a job for seven years, and it was a fantastic …
CBS Corp. President and CEO Les Moonves set the record straight — sort of — appearing on Bloomberg News on Thursday afternoon, responding to reports, rumors and innuendos regarding the future of Neil Patrick Harris and Joel McHale with CBS. Moonves said his previous meeting with NPH was a general …
Neil Patrick Harris was on my list, as well as many others, as a potential late-night TV host for CBS in 2015. NPH confirmed this morning on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM radio show that CBS chief Les Moonves and entertainment president Nina Tassler had him on their list, too! Harris said …
At today’s Upfronts presentation for TBS and TNT, the cable networks announced they’re keeping Team Coco in business through 2018 with another three-year contract extension for Conan. And throughout Burbank’s Team Coco HQ, and everywhere fans of Conan O’Brien, Andy Richter and the rest of the team exist, late-night TV …
Friday after business hours: That’s usually when the powers-that-be quietly dump bad news in the media’s lap, so it cannot be followed up and quickly gets lost in the shuffle toward the weekend’s more leisurely pursuits. And yet. And yet! The 7 o’clock hour Friday wrapped up 24 hours of …
Timing really is everything. One minute media is speculating that you’re taking a job with Netflix; the next, one of your fellow late-night TV hosts announces his retirement. In between, you’re on Conan, trying to clarify your own “retirement” plans. You, in this case, are Chelsea Handler. And on Monday’s …
Seth Meyers didn’t have to look far to find his new Late Night bandleader. Meyers announced Monday afternoon that his longtime fellow former Saturday Night Live castmate Fred Armisen would be in charge of the 8GBand (as he hashtagged it on Twitter). “Fred will curate and lead the band, and …
If you think the Late Night franchise at NBC is in a pickle, well, you’re half right. There is a pickle involved. But this is a different sort of dill, er, I mean, deal. On Tuesday night, Jimmy Fallon passed the pickle onto Seth Meyers — the same one he’d …
Scott Aukerman doesn’t host Comedy Bang! Bang! on IFC, so much as he presides over a circus of characters and interviews that aren’t interviews, to the point where any viewers who thought they’d tuned into a proverbial late-night talk show come to realize that they’ll enjoy it once they embrace …
What’s happening in the comedy world these days… You knew it was happening before it happened, but Community creator Dan Harmon is back running his show for the NBC sitcom’s fifth season in 2013-2014. Chris McKenna, who also left before the fourth season, also is returning as an executive producer. …
