The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Television Academy has so many categories and nominees to honor each year that it holds two separate ceremonies, naming winners this past weekend in the Creative Arts Emmy categories — which will air on FXX on Saturday, Sept. 19, 2015, the night before FOX televises the main 67th Primetime …
Fresh off of his Last Comic Standing Season 9 win broadcast in primetime Wednesday night, Clayton English began putting that NBC contract and development deal into full promo mode, performing later that night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, then this morning literally being backed into a corner by the …
Congratulations to Atlanta’s Clayton English, who officially won the ninth season of Last Comic Standing, which aired its finale Wednesday night on NBC. English takes home $250,000 and a development deal with NBC to pitch his own show. He also performed later Wednesday night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, …
If Howard Stern has his way, all three of the comedic acts who performed Tuesday night on America’s Got Talent will advance to next week’s finals and have a chance to win the $1 million grand prize and a headlining show in Las Vegas. Watching the 11 acts perform live …
Why was 6 afraid of 7? You know the joke: Because 7 8 9! Say it aloud. Spell it if you have to. But here we are, in episode seven of a short-order of eight episodes for season nine of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and we’re cutting the field of …
Drew Lynch‘s self-confidence is peaking as he performed Tuesday night live on NBC for the semifinals of America’s Got Talent, not only laughing at his own jokes and the warm reception the Radio City Music Hall audiences have given him, but also dropping the mic and turning his back to …
Don’t call it a comeback. That Coach reboot you didn’t think could possibly be a real thing is no longer a real thing, as NBC has pulled the plug on the revival of the 1980s ABC sitcom just as it had begun production. NBC surprised almost everyone outside of Craig …
We’re in the homestretch of episodes that don’t have nearly enough time to showcase 21 stand-up comedians in 44 minutes, as this is the second and final semifinal of season nine of NBC’s Last Comic Standing. A quick pan across the green room and there’s Andi Smith revealing to us …
Gary Vider was the only stand-up comedian in this week’s quarterfinal action of America’s Got Talent, broadcasting live tonight on NBC from Radio City Music Hall. For his act on Tuesday, Vider cracked jokes about trying to date when women supposedly only have a minute before deciding if a mate …
This summer couldn’t be hotter for Lil Rel. Lil Rel Howery co-stars as one of the Friends of the People, the sketch show currently in its second season on truTV, plays Jerrod Carmichael’s brother (and David Alan Grier’s son) in the new NBC sitcom, The Carmichael Show, that debuts this …
