The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Is comedy’s Roast Era over? Or just in time-out like much everything else thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic? We’ll have to wait to find out. But as Diallo Riddle pointed out in the first episode of Comedy Central’s Hall of Flame: Top 100 Comedy Central Roast Moments, which aired Monday …
While waiting for VIacomCBS to flip the switch and relaunch CBS All Access as Paramount+, I thought, hey, why not see what’s cooking, so to speak, over on Discovery+? After all, they’re promising 55,000+ real-life TV episodes on the new Discovery+ streaming platform, and if you have Verizon Wireless, you …
If Rachel Brosnahan’s Marvelous Mrs. Maisel telling truth to 1960 wasn’t enough for you, how about the real Brosnahan and Phoebe Robinson getting together a bunch of funny women to deliver a final eulogy for 2020? That’s the premise and conceit for Yearly Departed on Amazon Prime Video. Brosnahan said …
Still have no idea how many people are voting in the inaugural Tournament of Laughs on TBS, but they’ve announced the “Fortunate Four” competing for the title tonight… Natasha Leggero vs. Piff The Magic Dragon AND Chip Chipperson (Jim Norton) vs. Tim J. Dillon Leggero beat out Jeff Ross, while …
Who’s got jokes? TBS has given the green light to a seven-episode Tournament of Laughs featuring 32 comedians in head-to-head competition, hosted by SNL alum Jason Sudeikis. The series premieres 10 p.m. Sunday, June 21, 2020. The comics will face off virtually in single-elimination contests, with Sudeikis acting as the …
In a four-night, special event at 10 and 10:30 p.m. ET/PT running Tuesday, June 2, through Friday, June 5, House Hunters: Comedians on Couches will find seven comedians delivering their own colorful commentary on classic episodes of HGTV’s House Hunters. The House Hunters: Comedians on Couches celebrity lineup is led …
With the departure of hit sitcom The Big Bang Theory this month, CBS is looking far and wide for new comedies to break through this fall. So congrats to comedians Billy Gardell, Natasha Leggero, Sabrina Jalees, Rob Corddry, Michaela Watkins and more for joining the Eye Network’s new primetime lineup! …
It sounds like pure schtick, but it works great both as a touring stage act, as well as a collection of streaming episodes. I’m talking about The Honeymoon Stand Up Special on Netflix, which takes newlywed comedians Natasha Leggero and Moshe Kasher, finds them in the middle of their 2017 …
After two seasons, Showtime has decided to stop rolling the Dice with Andrew Dice Clay’s semi-autobiographical sitcom. The formal announcement came Tuesday, but the writing had been on the wall, ever since its notable absence at the winter TCA sessions. Ratings also were never great for the sitcom that pondered …
Natasha Leggero, eight months pregnant with her first child with husband Moshe Kasher, appeared last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live to promote the third season of Another Period, which premieres on Comedy Central next Tuesday. When Leggero jokingly mentioned not naming the baby Harvey Weinstein, Kimmel asked if she, too, …
