The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedy Central is continuing with its new series of half-hour stand-up comedy showcases, called The Half Hour (previously known as Comedy Central Presents). They’ll tape in Boston, as they did last year, at Royale, from Feb. 26 through March 1, 2013. Air dates to be determined later in 2013. Stay tuned …
How do you get your own TV talk show? Nikki Glaser and Sara Schaefer, the comedians fronting the new weekly MTV late-night talker, Nikki & Sara LIVE, have their own answers. Hints: Start early, make sacrifices and make your pitch count. Roll the clip! Related: Sara Schaefer also advice for …
Sara Schaefer is one half of Nikki & Sara Live, a new weekly late-night talk show debuting on MTV on Jan. 29, 2013 — they’re profiled in today’s issue of The New York Times, and Schaefer and Glaser also have a popular podcast, You Had to Be There. Schaefer previously …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Howard Stern will return in 2013 for a second season as judge on NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Former longtime Conan/Late Night writer Brian McCann has a new gig — McCann is the head writer for the upcoming Nikki and Sara show on MTV …
Nikki Glaser performed on Tuesday’s episode of Conan, and we learned how the 20-something spent some of her “adult” years living with her mother, while nowadays, she finds herself contemplating motherhood. Well, not exactly motherhood. You know. What’s that? You don’t know? Roll the clip, then!
While Mike Birbiglia enjoys a successful launch of his semi-autobiographical film, Sleepwalk With Me, Birbiglia’s friend, Henry Phillips (who appears in Sleepwalk) is finding continued success of his own from his 2010 film, Punching the Clown. On Thursday, Showtime announced it would develop an TV series adaptation of Punching the …
I don’t know what’s happening over at MTV, but something is definitely happening over there. The cable channel has announced a new weekly late-night comedy series starring podcast partners Nikki Glaser and Sara Schaefer called The Nikki and Sara Show, slated to debut in early 2013. The initial order is …
It’s not easy being a woman in a male-dominated profession, and comedy is no different. Except that it certainly feels different. Because even when women in comedy are funny and try to make fun of this situation, it can go awry. Like, oh, I don’t know, take today’s offering on …
Nikki Glaser was a last-minute substitution for Paula Abdul on tonight's edition of The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, which was an even bigger bonus for Glaser, because not only would this give Glaser her first late-night TV debut (supposing her network debut came during Last Comic Standing in 2007), …
The New Faces of Comedy showcase is Montreal's version of the Best New Artist Grammy. Most of the 16 stand-ups selected for this week's showcases have several years of experience onstage, but they're new in the eyes of industry scouts, because this is the first step up the festival ladder. …
