Lil Rel – The Comic's Comic

Lil Rel to host American Version of ‘Small Fortune’ for NBC

by Sean L. McCarthyApril 1, 2021April 1, 2021

It’s a great spring for Lil Rel Howery. Howery, who co-stars in the Oscar-nominated Judas and the Black Messiah as well as new Netflix hit …

Review: Lil Rel Howery, “Live In Crenshaw” on HBO

by Sean L. McCarthyJuly 2, 2020July 2, 2020

I love that Lil Rel chose to shoot his HBO comedy special in a school gymnasium in the Crenshaw neighborhood of Los Angeles, as the …

Jay-Z “Moonlight” music video re-enacts Friends with black comedians

by Sean L. McCarthyAugust 5, 2017August 5, 2017

For everyone who thought 1990s hit sitcom Friends was too unrealistic or too white, Jay-Z and director Alan Yang are here for you. Yang (Master …

Lil Rel Howery on The Late Late Show with James Corden

by Sean L. McCarthyMarch 17, 2017

Usually the March Madness of the NCAA basketball tournament pre-empts CBS late-night programming, but The Late Late Show with James Corden snuck in a brand-new …

Episode #13: Lil Rel Howery

by Sean L. McCarthyAugust 24, 20153

This summer couldn’t be hotter for Lil Rel. Lil Rel Howery co-stars as one of the Friends of the People, the sketch show currently in …

Go Jerrod Go! NBC gives six-episode order to Jerrod Carmichael sitcom

by Sean L. McCarthyMarch 10, 2015March 10, 20152

Jerrod Carmichael will find out if he’s ready for primetime in the coming year, as NBC just announced it has ordered six episodes of the …

Friends of the People premieres on truTV

by Sean L. McCarthyOctober 28, 2014

We’re overflowing from so much comedy on our electronic screens, there’s even a sketch TV boom exploding from within the current comedy boom. While Saturday …