The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Re:Verse, a comedy pilot created by Stephen Soroka and Nic Rad and starring Maria Krovatin as a 22-year-old who quits law school and pursues multiple futures in New York City, won the inaugural “Best of Fest” award and the Audience Award at last weekend’s New York Television Festival. Soroka wrote …
Eric Andre had mounted a social media campaign in the weeks leading up to the MTV Video Music Awards in hopes of hosting the show. Andre didn’t host Sunday night’s telecast from the Barclays Center in Brooklyn. But this photo from the red carpet with Jenni Farley (aka JWoww) is …
Just how would you survive the zombie apocalypse, anyhow? The comedians from MTV2’s Guy Code have the answers. Maybe not all of the answers. But they tell you what they’d do and how they’d do it — it’s all part of a special episode called “Guy Code Honors” airing this …
Zach Stone isn’t going to be famous enough for a second season, but Bo Burnham, the star of the MTV sitcom, already is well on his way to bigger fame. Burnham is from a generation growing up with the idea that everyone can be famous and everyone will be if …
Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taconne were childhood friends in Berkeley, Calif., who went off to separate colleges before reuniting and forming The Lonely Island. Their short film collaborations led them to Saturday Night Live, feature films, sitcoms and two hit albums of their comedy hip-hop songs — “Incredibad” …
Anyone who has followed Bo Burnham’s burgeoning comedy career from his bedroom out to the comedy clubs and theaters literally has seen him and his comedy grow up. As Burnham has matured, he has shown a fondness for commenting on celebrity and art and comedy — and his new MTV …
One of the breakout series on TV this month isn’t on one of the five broadcast networks, nor is it scripted, nor is it even a “reality” for the sake of the “reality” genre tag TV show. It’s AMC’s Talking Dead, a live hourlong talk show hosted by comedian Chris …
Hasan Minhaj hosts the new MTV weekly series, Failosophy, premiering Thursday night and shining the harsh spotlight of reality on our everyday failures online — via text message, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and elsewhere else mistakes are made. Minhaj chatted exclusively with The Comic’s Comic to provide some real-life advice …
With Attack of the Show off the air at G4, who will bring us that deft comedic look at the epic fails happening all around us every day on YouTube, our Facebook walls and our phones? Enter Hasan Minhaj. MTV officially announced the debut of Failosophy, a new series hosted …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… USA is developing a potential late-night talk show with Gary Sanchez Productions that would air in the midnight hour as technically the earliest of early-morning shows. It’s from creators and executive producers Owen Burke and Rob Cohen. MTV is working with Dana Min …
