The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The year 2016 may just be the year we’re all convinced to stop watching TV the traditional way, and Seeso will go a long way in convincing comedy fans to do just that — if they haven’t already. Seeso, NBCUniversal’s new digital comedy streaming platform, officially launches Jan. 7, 2016, …
Saturday Night Live opened with a bit of a surprise — former SNL superstar Will Ferrell returned with his infamously successful of former President George W. Bush (the impersonation that gave us “strategery”) to announce he’d jump back into the race for 2016 and try to win a third term. …
In case you missed it, Alan Zweibel sat down with Martin Short for the better part of an hour last month at the 92Y in New York City to discuss their comedy careers. Mostly Zweibel’s, but there’s also a bit of backstory for who inspired Short to create the characters …
How great is Kate McKinnon? So great that on last weekend’s Saturday Night Live, McKinnon not only held her own but also continued delivering knock-out line after line as everyone around her broke into giggle fits or full-on laughs during a live sketch. “Close Encounter” found McKinnon, Cecily Strong and …
Just last week, Dana Carvey was playing “Wheel of Impressions” once more with Jimmy Fallon on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Now Carvey will find out how amateur impersonators fare, as the former Saturday Night Live star will preside over the new USA Network competition series, First Impressions. USA, …
Above Average, the original comedy video and webseries channel fronted by Lorne Michaels and Broadway Video (and thus starring plenty of Saturday Night Live cast members, writers and their friends), has launched a new sister site devoted to sports. But here’s the kicker. Wait. Here’s The Kicker. Even Bryan Tucker, …
Yahoo!’s chief executives told investors and media Tuesday on a conference call that their $42 million investment on original comedy series to build up Yahoo! Screen did not yield much of any financial return. Yahoo! CEO Marissa Mayer had made a big play for Yahoo! Screen in 2013 by negotiating …
“A dream come true. Thank you Comedy Central.” That’s Veep‘s Sam Richardson today, as Comedy Central announced it had ordered 10 episodes of Detroiters, a series he co-created with his former Second City cohort and fellow Detroit native Tim Robinson. Robinson, a former SNL cast member and writer, will star in …
More than 16 months after a horrific highway crash killed his friend and almost himself, Tracy Morgan stood center stage on Saturday Night Live as host to deliver his opening monologue. Morgan had read a prompter for a surprise appearance at the Emmy Awards a month earlier, but this would …
Ali Farahnakian is living the American comedy dream. Born in Iran and raised in North Carolina, Ali moved to Chicago after college and fell right in with The Second City, improv Olympic and the teachings of Del Close and Charna Halpern. Saying “Yes, And” to life led him to becoming …
