January 5, 2016

Ellen Unstoppable, Renewed Through 2020

If you haven't been paying attention to television before primetime, Ellen DeGeneres is the reigning queen of daytime. The Ellen DeGeneres Show, her long running daytime talk show, has been renewed by NBC. While the previous deal ran through the 2016-17 season, she is now contracted through 2020.
August 17, 2015

Ellen Wins The Internet Today With Teen Choice Comedy Award Acceptance Speech

Ellen DeGeneres accepted the Teen Choice award for Choice Comedy last night to a huge ovation and the internet is just raving about her acceptance speech calling it "powerful" and "moving" and proclaiming "it will make you feel things!" DeGeneres urged teens to be proud to be different, letting them know it pays off later on. And then she dedicated the giant surfboard she just won to her wife of seven years.
June 15, 2015

Mike Birbiglia is Really Busy, Jimmy Carr in NYC and News From Michael Che, Jay Pharoah and More

Jeffrey Gurian is a writer and comedian in New York who loves to Jump Around. Follow his regular column, right here, to find out what’s happening in comedy, and who Jeffrey Gurian ran into this week in and around New York. This week, Jeffrey visited Gotham, The Cellar, The PIT and UCB.
December 17, 2014

Ellen Does a Walk On, Showers Conan’s Audience With Gifts

It's not enough that Ellen already gets love and adulation from her own audience by giving them fancy gifts.  She needs to show up on Conan and suck the love out of his audiences. Sorry Conan, the gift of laughter just isn't going to cut it in this competitive and highly commercial market.
October 7, 2014

Talking With Cameron Esposito About Her New Album, Chicago, and Bowie!

Cameron Esposito has been called "the future of comedy" by Jay Leno, and has made practically everyone's "comics to watch" lists (Time Out, LA Weekly, Flavorwire, Cosmopolitan, The Chicago Reader, The Portland Mercury to name a few)." She's outspoken in her life and in her comedy about being a lesbian. Her new album, "Same Sex Symbol" contains her own unique take on some of the stereotypical behavior she's encountered from men about her sexuality. If you have your own preconceptions about what you think she and her comedy are about, she will challenge them. Tough, but warm, contagiously amused by the ridiculous behavior she encounters in the universe, and a true style icon in the making, we agree with everyone who calls Cameron Esposito a comedian to keep your eye on. Today (October 7) she's releasing her second album, which you can purchase at killrockstars.com. We talked with Cameron about the new album, why Portland is such a great comedy city, and why she's channeling David Bowie as part of her album release.
April 23, 2014

Amazon Deal With HBO Will Bring HBO Programming to Prime Members

For the first time ever, Amazon Prime members will be able to watch favorite HBO series like, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Wire, Big Love, Eastbound & Down, Oz, Band of Brothers and Deadwood, as well as Early Seasons of Boardwalk Empire and True Blood, for no charge outside of their monthly membership fees.