The Definitive Guide to Comedy
As animation and voiceover work becomes ever more commonplace among mainstream TV and movie fare, it’s more necessary to work out fair labor contracts. SAG-AFTRA members overwhelmingly voted earlier this month on a new deal. Results announced this week revealed 95 percent yes votes, 5 percent in the minority voting …
If you had told me 10 years ago, when I launched The Comic’s Comic from a hotel room in Las Vegas during the HBO Comedy Festival, that I’d be writing about sex offenders and Russian agents today, would I still be here? Before you attempt to answer that rhetorical, let …
Did you know the Screen Actors Guild’s Lifetime Achievement Award features a sad tragedy face on the opposite side of the happy comedy face on its actual award? That’s one of the revelations Lily Tomlin shared with us upon winning the award in 2017. Roll the clip for more! Congrats, …
The Screen Actors Guild honored Carol Burnett this year with a Lifetime Achievement Award, introduced by Tina Fey and Amy Poehler, and escorted to the stage by Steve Carell. Burnett grew up in Hollywood and even climbed the famed Hollywood sign as a child. She joked that she enjoyed climbing …
If you were hoping to use Laughs as a TV credit and as a path to SAG-AFTRA membership, well, let the actors union stop you right there. SAG-AFTRA issued a “no-contract, no-work” order Tuesday against the stand-up comedy showcase series, which debuted late Saturday night on FOX as a summer trial …
