Fusion orders up political sketch comedy series, Happy Ending with Nando Vila
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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, and three decades later, he wants …
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 and improvising funny people in America: …
Episode #145: Jay Chandrasekhar
Jay Chandrasekhar has spent the past two decades writing, directing and acting in film and television. With his group Broken Lizard, he has co-written, co-starred …
Episode #127: Kevin McDonald
Kevin McDonald is one of the original founders of The Kids in the Hall, the legendary sketch comedy troupe that started in Toronto, then became …
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 live televised sketch comedy show on Saturday nights. Can they …
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Ray Jessel’s audition on America’s Got Talent 2014, and what you may not know about the 84-year-old songwriter’s Broadway and TV past
Ray Jessel, at 84, would seem like an unlikely contestant to round out this season’s auditions for America’s Got Talent. And yet, NBC producers knew …
Can you judge an NBC Untitled Sketch Comedy Show by its pilot cover page?
Almost a year after NBC Universal tapped Lou Wallach to develop a second sketch comedy troupe for the network to be taped and broadcast on …
The Kids In The Hall: Reunited, Rusty & Ready for a mini-tour in 2014
Don’t call it a comeback. The Kids in the Hall have been here for years. Just not onstage. All together. In almost six years. But …
The strength to keep going and tell his story: John Leguizamo on his fifth HBO special, “Ghetto Klown”
“I reveal all these things about my career, to inspire. I read that 40 percent of Latin kids drop out of high school. And that’s …