The Definitive Guide to Comedy
I spoke with comedian Nimesh Patel when he thought he had licensed his new hour, Instant Karma to Netflix. Shortly after our chat, Netflix decided to film a brand-new hour with Patel instead later in 2025. So our chat found him at a crossroads — Patel had just filmed an episode …
This May, two similar yet tonally completely different sketch series premiered on HBO and HBO Max from the orbit of Saturday Night Live. And now we’ll be able to see what Michael Che and Sam Jay have to say with a second season! Today HBO Max announced the renewal of …
Here’s your first look at what could be Chappelle’s Show for a new generation. It’s THAT DAMN MICHAEL CHE! The new six-episode Max Original comedy series THAT DAMN MICHAEL CHE premieres May 6. This groundbreaking new original comedy series uses sketches and vignettes to illustrate what it feels like to experience various …
Even a head writer for Saturday Night Live knows certain comedy sketches won’t fly on live television on NBC, even late at night. So Michael Che is starting his own sketch comedy series for HBO Max. It’s still untitled, but the Untitled Michael Che Project has a six-episode order, with each episode …
A year and a half ago, Amazon touted the Plaxall site in Long Island City as the future site for its East Coast headquarters. The people of New York City said no. On Sunday afternoon, the people gathered on this same site to watch a stand-up comedy show. Michael Che, …
The Madison Square Garden Company and the Garden of Dreams Foundation are proud to announce the return of Garden of Laughs – the successful bi-annual all-star comedy benefit that has raised nearly $5 million so far. The 2019 show, hosted by Steve Schirripa, will include performances by Jerry Seinfeld along …
Wil Sylvince’s passion project outside of stand-up comedy has been almost a decade in the making. Sylvince first showed me a short spec video back in 2010 of him as a boxer. Seven years later, his boxing film, I Am Maurice, has successfully raised more than $104,000 via Kickstarter from 641 …
Normally the rotating networks who host the Emmy Awards each fall use it as an opportunity to showcase their star late-night talk-show host. NBC has done that before for both Jimmy Fallon and Seth Meyers. For 2018, though, they’re going with Saturday Night Live’s Weekend Update duo of Colin Jost …
If you can get past all of the unnecessary dick jokes from the host, Seth Rogen’s Hilarity For Charity, which he actually co-presents on Netflix with actress Lauren Miller Rogen (whose mother has Alzheimer’s), there’s an interesting and special take on the comedy special going on here, with fund-raising for …
No sophomore slump for Comedy Central’s Clusterfest. The second annual comedy, music and arts festival planned for the first weekend in June will be headlined by Amy Schumer, The Lonely Island and both present and past hosts of The Daily Show in Trevor Noah and Jon Stewart. Clusterfest 2018 also …
