The Definitive Guide to Comedy
As the Emmy Awards rotate among the four major broadcast networks each year, each network usually turns to its late-night talk show host or its brightest comedy star to host the ceremonies. FOX doesn’t offer a late-night talk show, but it does have a comedy star with late-night experience at …
You’ll hear a lot in the trades and the trade winds from now through pilot season, which starts in earnest in January, all the way up to the cable Upfronts in the spring and the broadcast network Upfronts in May — when TV programmers present their new and returning lineups …
Live from New York and a Ben & Jerry‘s scoop shop near you, it’s new Saturday Night Live flavors! Lazy Sunday: Vanilla cake batter ice cream base with chocolate and yellow cupcake pieces & a chocolate frosting swirl. Inspired by The Lonely Island’s digital smash hit for SNL with the …
You probably heard about, if you didn’t also already see, the hologram of the late Michael Jackson performing at Sunday night’s Billboard Music Awards, televised live to an audience of millions. The Billboard Music Awards are perhaps the least surprising awards of all in “Awards Season,” as each of the …
EVERYTHING IS AWESOME! Even and especially this music video for the song of same name — “Everything is Awesome!” — from Tegan and Sara with the boys from The Lonely Island. Roll it! So much positive press for this movie, The LEGO Movie. One TV spot that caught my eye …
The Lonely Island‘s third studio album drops today, and there’s no reason to doubt or expect anything less than another mega hit out of “The Wack Album” from Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. It’s already a top 10 hit on the overall charts online at both Amazon.com and …
Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taconne were childhood friends in Berkeley, Calif., who went off to separate colleges before reuniting and forming The Lonely Island. Their short film collaborations led them to Saturday Night Live, feature films, sitcoms and two hit albums of their comedy hip-hop songs — “Incredibad” …
Zach Galifianakis just hosted Saturday Night Live again, The Lonely Island is promoting a new album, and James Franco was just weird again in a new project, so why not put all three together in one special new episode of “Between Two Ferns”? Why not, indeed. For the first time, …
Seth MacFarlane is up for two Grammy Awards, but only one of them is for something funny. Steve Martin’s banjo found honors. And the South Park fellas are getting closer to EGOT status. What else is new? How about these comedians among the nominees for the 54th Grammy Awards, to …
