HBO, HBO Max Has Renewed Both Sketch Shows By Sam Jay and Michael Che
This May, two similar yet tonally completely different sketch series premiered on HBO and HBO Max...
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Tag: sketch comedy
Netflix orders Astronomy Club sketch series
Astronomy Club, the first all-black house team at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, is moving...
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HBO sets “A Black Lady Sketch Show” for late-night Fridays starting Aug. 2, 2019
In a month, HBO’s late-night Friday slot, currently occupied by Los Espookys, will host A...
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Adult Swim orders up “Three Busy Debras” to series
Adult Swim is adding some actual live women to the late-night cable channel’s programming....
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Mike Myers to star in Netflix sketch series
Netflix is making a big play for sketch comedy this year. They’ve already introduced series...
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Episode #232: Baroness von Sketch Show
Carolyn Taylor, Jennifer Whalen and Aurora Browne met while performing with Second City Toronto....
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Fusion orders up political sketch comedy series, Happy Ending with Nando Vila
Fusion. It’s a TV channel. You may have it! Once you’ve found it, starting next week...
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The Kids in the Hall looking to mount a limited TV series revival
Lorne Michaels brought The Kids in the Hall to television in the late 1980s via HBO and the CBC,...
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R.I.P. Gary Austin, founder of The Groundlings (1941-2017)
Growing up in the 1970s and 1980s, there were two places to go to find the best sketch comedians...
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Episode #145: Jay Chandrasekhar
Jay Chandrasekhar has spent the past two decades writing, directing and acting in film and...
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Episode #127: Kevin McDonald
Kevin McDonald is one of the original founders of The Kids in the Hall, the legendary sketch...
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Sneak Peek! Meet NBC’s “Untitled Sketch Comedy Pilot” Primetime Players
Forty years ago, NBC assembled a group of “Not Ready For Prime-Time Players” for a...
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