The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Imaginary Friend and Sunset PPL will each get their pilot episodes on broadcast network TV next week. In late night. After Late Night with Seth Meyers. Remember how NBC introduced the NBC Playground (after first calling it the Comedy Playground without realizing that already was a thing) and promised to …
America’s Got Talent returned to NBC following the two-week break for the Summer Olympics, with the final live quarterfinal performances — which included stand-up comedian Julia Scotti. Scotti joked about how she’s getting older, her prospects for finding a man are not only getting less optimistic, but also getting more …
Lorne Michaels has orchestrated Saturday Night Live‘s first major purge of veteran cast members in a decade, letting loose repertory players Taran Killam and Jay Pharoah plus featured player Jon Rudnitsky in advance of season 42. Killam and Pharoah were six seasons into the usual seven-season contract cast members sign …
Stand-up comedian Jeff Dye has done so much television over the past few years since competing on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, I almost didn’t believe it when Jimmy Fallon introduced Dye on The Tonight Show as making his “late-night debut” on Wednesday night’s show. And yet. While you can see …
NBC announced that Jimmy Fallon — not Ricky Gervais, nor the dynamic duo of Tina Fey and Amy Poehler — would become the network’s next host of the Golden Globes. From the press release, which accompanied NBC’s turn at the summer TV Critics Association (TCA) press tour today: “We’re thrilled …
For his late-night network TV debut, Brendan Eyre showed how you can make a nervous energy work in your favor, as his opening bit on Monday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers brought the crowd into his corner to share his embarrassment at trying and failing to groom his body hair. …
For Tape Face‘s first performance as one of the final 36 contestants on the live editions of America’s Got Talent 2016, the British mime managed to convince both judge Heidi Klum and host Nick Cannon to join him onstage within a four-minute performance that included two main gags. Both tied …
The 2016 season of America’s Got Talent began its live show elimination competitions on Tuesday night, and two of the three remaining comedy acts among the final 36 performed tonight. Lori Mae Hernandez, all of 13, came out of the gates, and after acknowledging she was on the stage in …
Mike Birbiglia says that his new movie about an improv group, Don’t Think Twice, uses plenty of real-life influences and anecdotes. Jimmy Fallon’s life isn’t among them, although Fallon shared a funny note about what happened when he himself got the call from Saturday Night Live — when Fallon called …
Saturday Night Live sent its Weekend Update team of Michael Che and Colin Jost out to Cleveland to help MSNBC’s coverage of the 2016 Republican National Convention with a special live midnight edition of their newsy joke segment tonight. But Kate McKinnon made an appearance, too, and quickly reasserted herself …
