The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Would you believe Saturday Night Live took home the most Emmy Awards in 2017? Weird, right. But without Game of Thrones, or Mad Men, or Breaking Bad, or The Sopranos before them, there was no eligible primetime drama that really caught America’s full attention as much as the news and …
After four decades and a couple of years, the folks on the West Coast and Rocky Mountains will get to watch SNL when the East Coast does, actually live on the TV. Sorry, Hawaii and Alaska. Double sorry, Guam. NBC announced today that it’ll air Saturday Night Live at 11:30 p.m. Eastern, …
Saturday Night Live was the biggest show winner last weekend during the “creative arts” portion of the 2017 Primetime Emmy Awards, including Outstanding Guest Actor and Actress nods for both Dave Chappelle and Melissa McCarthy for their guest appearances last season, but W. Kamau Bell, Samantha Bee and James Corden …
Preacher Lawson doesn’t think being single is fun. Lawson joked in his semifinal performance for America’s Got Talent that the longer he remained single, the lower his standards fell. He remains proud of his big lips, though. Find out Wednesday if Lawson advances to the finals. Roll the clip!
Hoda Kotb and Kathie Lee Gifford, drinking white wine at 10 in the morning, forcing sober comedian Craig Ferguson to sit next to them on live TV and judge three aspiring stand-up comedians who are tasked with performing 45 seconds each, back to back to back, to “crack up” Craig. …
With everything that’s happening in America and in the world in 2017, would you believe there’s also room for a 12-year-old singing ventriloquist on America’s Got Talent? Darci Lynne received the “golden buzzer” into the live quarterfinal rounds last night on NBC, where she introduced a mouse puppet named Oscar …
For his first live performance on America’s Got Talent, Preacher Lawson joked about the fastest clapper in the world, and how large his smart phone has gotten over the years. Will he make it through to the next round? Find out if your votes helped him enough tonight on NBC.
We’ll never be royals, but will Puddles Pity Party make it through the quarterfinals of America’s Got Talent in 2017? Not everyone was a fan of his cover of “Royals” by Lorde (we see you, Simon), but perhaps the audience votes will outnumber Mr. Cowell’s buzzer. Roll the clip, and …
Jo Koy enjoys talking about his son in his stand-up, but now that his son is 14, their relationship just isn’t the same anymore. Koy explained in this performance Friday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Roll the clip.
Preacher Lawson has been a hit so far on the 2017 season of America’s Got Talent, and he also killed last week in Montreal as one of this year’s New Faces at Just For Laughs. Back on pre-taped NBC television, however, he was still in the running on the Judge …
