The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What’s happening in the comedy world now… FOX shut down production on Ben & Kate over the weekend. The network earlier last week announced it had pulled the rookie sitcom from the primetime schedule. Thirteen episodes aired. HBO has renewed Lena Dunham’s Girls for a third season, as previously reported …
In case you missed it, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler performed brilliantly as co-hosts of the 2013 Golden Globes awards ceremony. So much so that many viewers lamented their absence during the middle portion of the live broadcast on Sunday night. But who won? Aside from Lena Dunham and her …
Each year’s return to award season reminds us how comedy and comedians all too often are overlooked, marginalized or otherwise different enough from other performing artists such that, heck, how can anyone win, really? For every victory or nomination at the Academy Awards for individual achievement — screenplays are often …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Lena Dunham’s Girls has yet to return for season two, but executive Judd Apatow and HBO have dropped hints that it’ll be re-upped for a third season already. ABC’s reboot of TGIF continues, as the network has ordered three additional scripts this season …
Emmy nominations came out, per usual, in the wee hours of the morning so the big three broadcast TV morning shows could cover it live — followed by frantic press releases and phone calls to and from the happy honorees, their publicists, and the rest of the mainstream media. Did …
