The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Congrats to stand-up comedian Gary Owen, who with his wife and children will have his life and career documented in a new reality series for BET called Gary Owen Family! UPDATED (Sept. 12, 2016): It’s now called The Gary Owen Show, debuting Oct. 11, 2016. And I spoke with Gary …
SAG-AFTRA has issued a “no-contract, no-work” order against L. Plummer Media, which is currently filming both Comedians of LA for Esquire and Living With Funny for the Oxygen Network simultaneously. The actors’ union notes that the production is for “a single series, produced by a single company — L. Plummer Media …
At their Upfront presentations to advertisers today, the Esquire Network and Oxygen announced a first-ever joint project that will feature companion reality series shooting and airing at the same time on both cable channels — one showing the lives of stand-up comedians, the other showcasing the lives of the women …
Move over, Real Househusbands of Hollywood. Rob Stapleton and Charlie Murphy want to pitch you, BET or other TV channels out there, an actual reality series following the lives of stand-up comedians. Here’s their presentation video for Comics Turnt Up, with footage from Caroline’s, The Laugh Factory and elsewhere as comedians …
Oxygen announced a reality series on Tuesday for up-and-coming comedians that has been almost two years in the works. It still doesn’t have an official title — the working title is “Funny Girls” — nor does it have an official cast. But it’s a-coming. Funny Girls first showed up on …
Andy Kaufman’s final passport sits in a glass case, a snapshot of his optimism that remained even a couple of months before he died in 1984 at the age of 35. If it were anyone else, it could be haunting. But this is and was Andy Kaufman, where the definitions …
