The Definitive Guide to Comedy
While Keenen Ivory Wayans passes judgment on comedians on NBC’s reboot of Last Comic Standing, his younger brother, Marlon, is ready to hold court on his own televised comedy competition. And now we know the 10 comedians competing on the new TBS series, Funniest Wins, which premieres at 10 p.m. (Eastern/Pacific) …
America’s nationally televised singing competitions may be on the diminuendo in 2014, but perhaps that’s only to make room for a revival of stand-up comedy contests on TV?! TBS announced Tuesday that it has ordered an eight-episode summer series from Marlon Wayans — tentatively titled Funniest Wins — pitting comedians against …
Marlon Wayans is hoping the acronym WTF won’t be so NSFW when he’s done with his new online project, which boasts, “We’re dropping the ‘F’ word.” Called WhatTheFunny.com, the site remains a placeholder for now, awaiting enough short videos and/or webseries from Wayans and his funny friends to launch later …
Two new “Red Band” movie trailers to share with you, so-called because they remove restrictions on language and otherwise NSFW content for “MATURE AUDIENCES ONLY.” So. Check your IDs at the door. In The Heat, directed by Paul Feig, Sandra Bullock finds herself in a buddy cop caper with Melissa …
Mike Epps will play Richard Pryor on the big screen, after all. It just won’t be in a movie about the legendary stand-up comedian and actor. Instead, Epps will play Pryor in Nina, a biopic about singer Nina Simone that stars Zoe Saldana. Pryor opened for Simone during the singer’s early …
