Ben Kronberg on Late Night with Seth Meyers
Check out Ben Kronberg, cleaning up nicely on Thursday night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, with the slick hair and slicker white jacket. Summertime! Fun with words! Roll the clip!
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Marlon Wayans on the “Funniest Wins” philosophy, a lack of sibling rivalries and touring with his brothers Keenen, Damon and Shawn
Marlon Wayans already was hard at work on his new comedy competition series, Funniest Wins on TBS, when he heard that his older brother, Keenen Ivory Wayans, was joining the other competition as a judge on Last Comic Standing. “I think my lawyer may have told me,” Marlon Wayans told …
Brooks Wheelan fired after one season on Saturday Night Live
Brooks Wheelan was a last-minute addition to the cast of Saturday Night Live, originally hired on last summer as a writer. On Monday, after a transitional 39th season at SNL that saw its biggest cast in two decades vying for stage time, Wheelan announced on Twitter that he was one-and-done …
NBC still working on a new Cosby Show with Bill Cosby, possibly airing in 2015, and maybe more of The Maya Rudolph Show?
Also during NBC’s day meeting the TV Critics this past weekend, programming executives revealed more details about their latest generation sitcom project with Bill Cosby, as well as the possibility of future installments of The Maya Rudolph Show variety hour. Cosby, of course, famously lifted the Peacock Network out of its …
NBC issues early renewal for Last Comic Standing 9, coming Summer 2015, with more America’s Got Talent, American Ninja Warrior
NBC’s press day at the summer TV Critics Association confab provided great news over the weekend for all three of its summer reality competitions — all of which also are hosted by or showcasing comedians. Last Comic Standing, currently mid-revival for season eight with new executive producers Wanda Sykes and …
Gabriel Iglesias on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Gabriel Iglesias knew to be gracious toward his new host of The Tonight Show, as he opened his stand-up set Friday night with more than a few minutes about how funny and sexy Jimmy Fallon is. I don’t think that’s why the show gave him not one but two videos. …
Last Comic Standing 8, The Ellen DeGeneres Talk Show Challenge
Does this look like a guy about to be eliminated from Last Comic Standing? No. And I don’t mean JB Smoove, either, because he’s the host. But DC Benny thought he’d have a safe time cruising into the final seven or farther in this eighth season of Last Comic — …
Dana Carvey promotes new Beyond The Comics animated bits on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Dana Carvey did many things to entertain you Thursday night on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Carson — from playing a “Wheel of Impressions” with Fallon (in which they both dusted off impersonations of Al Pacino and Arnold Schwarzenegger), to performing his “Choppin’ Broccoli” song that won him a spot …
Michelle Wolf’s stand-up debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers
As a writer for Late Night with Seth Meyers, Michelle Wolf already has enjoyed plenty of chances to shine onscreen in sketches and segments, particularly as Grown-Up Annie and as Cassandra in the game show, “Fake or Florida.” On Thursday night’s show, Wolf got her first opportunity to perform stand-up, …
Andrea Martin on coming full circle, from SCTV to Broadway and back to Toronto and NBC for “Working The Engels”
Andrea Martin is enjoying her summer trip to Portugal when she’s patched onto the phone line last night with The Comic’s Comic. “It’s surreal for me to have a show premiere and me be in Lisbon,” Martin said. So if fans tune in tonight to the American debut of Working …