The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Early ratings for Jimmy Kimmel’s first night of Jimmy Kimmel Live in the 11:35 p.m. start time placed him ahead of both Letterman and Leno? Yes and no. Kimmel pulled in 3.097 million viewers Tuesday night compared to 2.882 million for Letterman and …
Some in the media made a big deal about Bill Maher donating $1 million to a pro-Obama Super-PAC, and yes, that’s something to make a deal about, but it’ll be more interesting months and years from now to see if anything comes from Maher performing a live one-hour stand-up special …
Less than a week after shuttering its four entertainment blogs and firing the staff, Yahoo! announced today that it would be launching the Yahoo! Comedy Channel in February 2012. The launch coincides with Yahoo!’s first exclusive free online broadcast of a stand-up special, “CrazyStupidPolitics: Bill Maher Live from Silicon Valley,” on …
