The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The 14th annual New York Comedy Festival, now in partnership with TBS, has announced its headliners for this November! Among them: truTV’s The Impractical Jokers Starring The Tenderloins at Madison Square Garden; Bill Maher at The Theater at Madison Square Garden; Brian Regan at Carnegie Hall; Jon Lovett’s “Lovett or …
You’ve seen plenty of evidence onscreen and off that Nick Offerman is as crafty as his character was on NBC’s Parks and Recreation. Now you’ll get to see Offerman and his sitcom boss, Amy Poehler, celebrate craftsmanship when they host a new six-episode competition series for NBC called The Handmade …
Will Ferrell and Chad Smith are using their doppelganger powers for good use, as the comedy star and the rock drummer will partner for The Red Hot Benefit Comedy + Music Show & Quinceanera on April 29, 2016. Ferrell and his Funny or Die cohorts will host comedy from Jim Gaffigan …
Parks and Recreation wrapped its seventh and final season last night on NBC with a series of heartfelt flash-forwards showing how and where all of the lovable members of Pawnee, Indiana’s parks department ended up 10, 20 years from now. And then, we cut back to 2015. And the Parks …
Amy Schumer will play Carnegie Hall this November! Bill Cosby, too! They’re among the headliners announced today for this fall’s 11th annual New York Comedy Festival, to run Nov. 5-9, 2014, across the city, presented by Caroline’s on Broadway in conjunction with Comedy Central. The festival announced the lineup through …
The race for best little films that could of 2014 begins on the same day that the nominees are announced for the best films of all sizes from 2013. Such is the circle of life for cinema. So just as Academy Award nominations get handed out and congratulatory phone calls …
Tonight is the 100th episode of NBC’s Parks and Recreation, which seems entirely plausible and yet also miraculous, considering the state of network television programming at NBC in the 2010s. Of course, throwing the word miracle around is a dubious prospect. As even Parks and Rec‘s co-creator, Michael Schur, noted …
FOX’s new Animation Domination High-Def lineup of short-form animated mayhem officially kicks off this coming Saturday in a late-night programming block (11 p.m. Eastern/Pacific), but FOX ADHD gave viewers a sneak preview of both Axe Cop and High School USA last night in primetime. The 10-minute shows debuted following a …
Comedians have many opportunities to showcase their big-screen talents throughout the calendar year at film festivals around the world. We pay special attention to Sundance because it comes first in the year, each January, and with it the first best chance for any small independent film to find a larger …
One of FOX’s ADHD pick-ups for summer 2013 is “Ask Axe Cop,” based on a comic strip written by a kid — Malachai Nicolle started the advice column comic when he was only 5 — and illustrated by his brother, Ethan, starting when he was 29. They’re older now. Obviously. …
