The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Where does Nick Offerman end and Ron Swanson begin? To be fair, Offerman isn’t the first comedian to portray a fictitious and yet slightly realistic version of himself on television. Just think back to the previous comedy boom of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when several stand-up comedians earned …
NBC let 30 Rock go meta last night, as its second time doing double-duty live shows (one for the Eastern and Central time zones, and one for the West Coast) found the fake show-within-a-show debating the merits of continuing with live shows for TGS. That allowed Kenneth the NBC Page …
The big four broadcast networks usually are coy when it’s still three to four weeks before their official Upfronts debut presentations to advertisers, but NBC isn’t wasting time, at least with former Friends star Matthew Perry. The Peacock Network announced today that it’d ordered Perry’s latest sitcom venture, Go On, …
On NBC’s Community, they typically use the minute-long final segment (why does NBC break up their shows this way again? to disrupt your DVRs? yes, I think that’s why) to produce a non-sequitur scene. And it often stars or features Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi). At the end …
As NBC’s The Office nears the end of its eighth season this spring, so many things remain up in the air — both in the sitcom’s plot, as well as behind the scenes — that what are we to make of a season nine, if there even is one? For …
NBC’s Best Friends Forever doesn’t debut on the primetime TV schedule until April 4, 2012. But the network has made the first episode available online now for you to catch a sneak preview of the midseason series. This formula worked well last fall for FOX with New Girl. Let’s see …
Community comes back from a brief hiatus this Thursday (March 15, 2012) to NBC’s lineup, and if you live in or near New York City, you can watch it live along with Jeff Winger himself. Joel McHale is performing one-night-only at Carolines on Broadway that night, with shows at 7 …
Your eyes are not deceiving you. That’s stand-up comedian Dan St. Germain welcoming Howard Stern to NBC’s America’s Got Talent in this promo spot which debuted during the second quarter of Super Bowl XLVI. Roll the clip!
The incoming group of NBC executives this year knew they were inheriting a tough situation, with the Peacock Network in fourth place in the ratings (and maybe even worse at times if you include the Spanish-language networks) and no reason to see that changing in Fall 2011. But by early …
This could only happen under Comcast rule, because former NBC chief Jeff Zucker probably never would have let Conan O’Brien inside 30 Rockefeller Plaza, let alone up the elevators to appear on camera last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. O’Brien and Fallon exchanged quick quips about O’Brien’s past …
