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Dane Cook is in New York City this weekend, and showed up Friday to perform on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. What about love? Are you in love? How do you talk when you’re in love? Roll the clips! They’re cut into two because of NBC’s rule of nothing …
The Emmys may have celebrated the past year of television, and the new Fall TV series have yet to premiere, but Hollywood always keeps an eye to the future, and August still signifies the start to the following year’s development cycle. You’ll hear a lot in the trades and the …
Jimmy Fallon’s heading back to the Super Bowl. NBC announced today that The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon will broadcast live on Super Bowl Sunday, Feb. 1, 2015, from the Orpheum Theater in Phoenix. The special live Tonight Show will air live following Super Bowl XLIX, a special episode The …
Roy Wood Jr. was looking good Thursday night on Late Night with Seth Meyers! “I lost five pounds,” Wood said, “in 12 years.” Dieting is a good idea, if only the people who came up with diets and diet products were upfront with us about the costs of it all. …
You’ll hear a lot in the trades and the trade winds from now through pilot season, which starts in earnest in January, all the way up to the cable Upfronts in the spring and the broadcast network Upfronts in May — when TV programmers present their new and returning lineups …
Last Comic Standing‘s final five finalists from this summer’s eighth season started a nationwide stand-up tour last week. Meanwhile, producers already have begun scouting potential stand-up contestants for Last Comic Standing 9 in 2015 — they looked at dozens of comedians last week in Los Angeles, last night in Boston …
Michael Che’s last night as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart did not pass by unnoticed. Despite the fact that Che only lasted three months (“actually, 58 business days”) in the gig with Comedy Central before returning to NBC and Saturday Night Live in the elite ranks …
Randy Liedtke has an idea for making Yelp seem new again. Actually, Liedtke is full of fun business ideas, some of which he shared in his stand-up performance on Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. Just imagine how his girlfriend will react to them. Go on. Just imagine it. Roll …
You’ll hear a lot in the trades and the trade winds from now through pilot season, which starts in earnest in January, all the way up to the cable Upfronts in the spring and the broadcast network Upfronts in May — when TV programmers present their new and returning lineups …
Kurt Braunohler recently hopped on a Jet-Ski in Chicago and rode it all the way down along the Mississippi River to New Orleans, for charity. And for a webseries, “Roustabout,” that you’ll be able to watch online via Comedy Central. On Friday night’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Braunohler …
