The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Welcome to Upfronts Week, when each of the broadcast networks march into New York City to meet with advertisers and present their new fall lineups for primetime and hope that advertisers keep buying 30-second spots for the TV, on the TV. So, without further ado, here are the synopses and …
The things you clicked on more than anything else I posted in 2015. Without further ado… 1. Yearbook photos for Louis CK and Matt LeBlanc (as depicted in junior high and high school in Newton, Mass., where they were classmates!), which make any day a great TBT and a chance …
Louis CK and Matt LeBlanc may not have won Emmy Awards last night in the category they were matched up in — Jeffrey Tambor won Lead Actor in a TV Comedy for his performance in Transparent — but CK and LeBlanc and all of us are winners for rediscovering their …
Here are your nominees for 2014 Emmy Awards in TV comedy. Will update with more categories and breakdowns, but for now, congrats to all! Making a big splash this year definitely is Netflix, with its decision to Orange Is the New Black in comedy earning the streaming site a series …
“Jay, why is it when you’re not working, you’re always dressed like you’re on death row at Shawshank?” — Natasha Leggero, roasting Jay Leno on The Tonight Show, Aug. 28, 2013 Leggero is part of the Comedy Central Roast of James Franco, premiering Labor Day. Roll the clip. Speaking of …
If you think it’s weird that Louis C.K. and Matt LeBlanc are competing against each other again in the same Emmy Awards category for roles in which they play themselves, in name and essentially in spirit, in TV comedies, consider this: C.K. and LeBlanc were high-school classmates, too. Newton North High …
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 …
