The Definitive Guide to Comedy
FX will go live this week for the return of Russell Brand’s late-night talk show, BrandX with Russell Brand. It’s the fourth format for BrandX in its fourth different “season” since June. Almost as if FX executives keep saying to Russell Brand, “We like you. We just don’t like your …
Listeners and viewers of “The Nick and Artie Show” tonight will find no Nick there. Nick DiPaolo “is pursuing some great opportunities,” according to that show’s Facebook page, which posted over the weekend that when the satellite sports talk show returns tonight, it’ll be known on DirecTV and SiriusXM simply …
Looks as though Kirk Fox has passed Dr. Phil’s tests. Phil and Jay McGraw’s Stage 29 Productions (which puts out other daytime TV fare such as The Doctors) has announced plans for Fox to host The Test, a one-hour talk show syndicated throughout America on Tribune stations and others through …
BBC America announced Wednesday that it’s giving Chris Hardwick and his Nerdist colleagues a promotion — a full, regular season of hourlong episodes of The Nerdist comedy variety show for 2013. “As a huge fanboy of nerd culture stuff, we at the Nerdist Podcast gush about the things we love constantly, …
Jimmy Kimmel idolizes David Letterman. Still does. When Kimmel grew up in Las Vegas, he celebrated a birthday party in a Late Night varsity jacket; the license plate on his car as a teen in Nevada read: “L8 NITE.” Last night, Kimmel finally had the opportunity to sit down with …
W. Kamau Bell had planned to leverage the first season of his FX late-night talk show into a successful stand-up comedy tour this fall. Turns out FX had even better plans for Bell, telling him to postpone that tour and keep Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell going for another …
Ronna Glickman and Beverly Kahn are the fictional best-selling co-authors of You’ll Do a Little Better Next Time: A Guide to Marriage and Re-marriage for Jewish Singles. In real life, Ronna and Beverly are comedians Jessica Chaffin and Jamie Denbo, friends from the Boston area who have taken their accents west …
Do you like Conan O’Brien but wish he would sit down with his talk-show guests for much longer than a commercial break? And forget the commercial break? And the jokes, too? Just get down to the jibber-jabber, already?! He has. O’Brien and Team Coco launched a new online interview series, …
Kathy Griffin’s domination of the Bravo channel’s cable TV audience continues unabated, as Bravo has slated an April 19, 2012, premiere for her weekly primetime talk show, Kathy. Griffin last year had a deal with Bravo to produce four televised stand-up specials, one for each quarter — and 13 in …
Seems like only a decade ago that viewers first saw a flamboyant chubby kid stealing scenes from Jay Leno’s Tonight Show as “Ross the Intern.” Wait. That was a decade ago? Well, now Ross Mathews is all grown up, slimmed down, but still flamboyant in a suit as a frequent …
