The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What’s happening in the comedy world now… The post-tropical storm named Sandy but also referred to as either a hurricane or a “Frankenstorm” prompted the cancellations Monday of live comedy shows in clubs across the Tri-State area, plus Broadway productions and show tapings of The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, …
Craig Fergus0n enjoys surprising viewers in the cold open of his Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and Thursday night’s episode on CBS was no exception, as Ferguson ceded the stage to Eddie Izzard — playing the role of Ferguson! Izzard tried to Glasgow up his accent and launch into …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Adam Sandler is moving his moving-pictures business from Sony to Paramount — at least for his next trick, a comedy western flick, due in cinemas in 2014. Adam Carolla is joining FOX News as a contributor to Bill O’Reilly’s top-ranked cable shout-show, The …
The final presidential debate of the 2012 campaign ended at 11 p.m. Eastern time Monday in Boca Raton, Fla. Meanwhile, up the East Coast in New York City, the writing staffs of four late-night TV comedy/variety shows already were beginning to pitch hundreds upon hundreds of jokes, video mash-ups and …
Chris D’Elia, on the East Coast performing headlining dates at Carolines, swung by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon to do a stand-up set and offer his impressions of drunk girls, and how they’re different from drunk guys. A drunk girl, as impersonated by D’Elia, starts off sounding a little bit …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Fuse announced the premiere date for the second season of Funny or Die’s Billy on the Street — Billy Eichner’s quiz show returns with 12 new half-hours, starting at 10 p.m. Dec. 7. Aside from randomly-picked pedestrians, Eichner also will have help from …
What’s happening in the comedy world right now… NBC has ordered five additional scripts of Guys With Kids. That makes the network’s new fall sitcom offerings three for four in terms of staying alive through the season and into 2013. Showtime’s House of Lies will welcome two new cast members …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Stephen Colbert revealed he’ll have a cameo in the upcoming movie trilogy adaptation of The Hobbit. Or will he? Colbert teased his visit to the movie set in an interview running in November’s issue of Playboy. Chevy Chase was grumpy again on the …
Not much longer than a week after NBC said this… “Without having to launch these comedies on Friday at this time, we can keep our promotion focused on earlier in the week — plus we will have both comedies in our back pocket if we need to make any schedule …
What’s happening in the comedy world right now… ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live has booked Kimmel’s longtime idol, David Letterman, as a guest for the upcoming week of shows in Kimmel’s birthplace of Brooklyn, New York. JKL will tape a week of late-night shows there from Oct. 29 – Nov. 2. …
