April 20, 2016
Last year, in a move that was both confusing and hilarious, Ridley Scott’s sci-fi epic The Martian was nominated for and eventually (in January) awarded the […]
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April 19, 2016
Taking all things into consideration, last night’s edition of Full Frontal was quite entertaining and worth every bit of the time I would have otherwise spent doing jumping jacks in the trash room of my condo. No, seriously, it was even better than that. All of that is not to say I was entirely happy with some of the points Samantha Bee made, but that’s OK. I am not one who sets rigid standards for political correctitude in everything I watch. And I have every confidence that you, my very sparse readership, feel the same way.
April 19, 2016
Mel Brooks made us laugh with “Springtime with Hitler” and Colonel Klink made us chuckle but, generally speaking, Nazis and The Holocaust have been somewhat verboten subjects in the world of comedy.
April 19, 2016
Crackle has announced it will launch on Xfinity on Demand starting on Wednesday, April 20. This will make Crackle’s original content available to Xfinity TV customers […]
April 19, 2016
New York Magazine’s entertainment and culture branch, Vulture.com, will be hosting its 3rd annual Vulture Festival from May 21-22. The festival highlights the best of television, film, music, comedy and more, and will take place at Milk Studios and a few other venues around New York City. Vulture announced last month that Sarah Silverman & Friends would be headlining the festival and have followed that up today with a complete lineup announcement that offers a little something for everyone.
April 19, 2016
Noel Fielding just finished his first US Tour, with An Evening With Noel Fielding, and by all accounts, it was a gigantic success. I caught the show in New York City- it was my first time seeing Noel live- and was intrigued, enlightened, enchanted, and utterly converted by Noel and his conceptual whirlwind of a comedy show.
April 19, 2016
Doris Roberts, meddling mom on Everybody Loves Raymond, dead at age 90
April 18, 2016
At some point, during the darkest days of World War II, one of Winston Churchill’s colleagues found him alone in a screening room, watching a Donald Duck cartoon. The colleague pointed out that this did not seem to be a particularly enlightening way for the Prime Minister to be spending his time. Damn it, Churchill explained to the interloper, I am not here to be enlightened; I am here to be entertained. I don’t have the exact quote, but the story is true and certainly makes sense. Why not a Donald Duck cartoon, just to relieve a bit of the tension?
April 18, 2016
A law in Germany prohibits individuals from insulting foreign dignitaries. If that seems like an antiquated rule prioritizing the egos of magistrates above a building block of democracy, that’s because the law dates back to 1871 under the reign of Kaiser Wilhelm II. He was an emperor and emperors make laws like that.
April 18, 2016
Hit Dramatic, Comedic Musical ‘Hamilton’ Wins Pulitzer Prize
April 18, 2016
Back in December, The Hollywood Reporter announced that cable network TV Land and comedy site Funny or Die had teamed up to produce a pilot based on the popular podcast Throwing Shade. The news excited fans, but all had been quiet on that front until recently, when THR reported that TV Land had given the show the green light to film a ten-episode series for the network.
April 18, 2016
Who’s on Late Night Tonight in Comedy? Here’s your guide to comedians hitting up the late night talk shows for this week, April 18, 2016. Conan […]
April 18, 2016
Streaming service Netflix is continuing to make good on their promise to crank out original content, announcing this week the release dates of a slew of new comedy specials from Jim Jeffries, Iliza Shlesinger, Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy, Ali Wong, and Bo Burnham, main
April 18, 2016
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 covered the scene at Gotham Comedy Club, New Jersey and the Pat Dixon Show.
April 18, 2016
According to Comedy Hype, Chris Rock was brainstorming with J.J. Abrams about their dream collaborators during the Tribeca Film Festival in New York City. Rock complimented Abrams’ intensity and the positivity he brought to working on the Oscars, and then speculated that he’d love to direct Denzel Washington in a comedy.
April 18, 2016
The fourth season of “Inside Amy Schumer” will return to Comedy Central on April 21st and the channel has released one of its many previews and trailers.
April 18, 2016
Two weeks after the release of episode ten of Horace and Pete, Louis C.K. has announced that the episode was indeed the series’ last. The series was released one episode at a time, on a weekly basis. There was no indication of how many episodes there would be in the season, so fans were left wondering week-to-week whether the current episode would be the last. Even after the dramatically final ending of episode ten, some fans were convinced that the show might still continue.
April 17, 2016
Last night Julia Louis-Dreyfus returned to 30 Rock last night to host Saturday Night Live, the show that gave her, her television debut. Louis-Dreyfus didn't get much air time back in the 80's when she was a castmember- the show either wasn't a good fit or show's producers just didn't know how to use her. But everything worked out fine, she went on to become a giant success on shows like Seinfeld, The New Adventures of Old Christine, and Veep. And last night's show was full of winks and nods and outright homages to her lack of success on SNL and gigantic post-SNL career, including visits from Seinfeld's co-creator Larry David, and Veep co-host Tony Hale.
April 16, 2016
April 16, 2016
Netflix has announced that they will be renewing their original animated comedy F is for Family for a second season. The show, which was created by comedy legend Bill Burr and The Simpsons writer Michael Price, is loosely based on the stand up act and life experiences of Burr.
April 16, 2016
Dan Harmon has invested in a time machine to bring us the interesting guests who died before we could meet them, and his assistant Spencer might have […]
April 16, 2016
The iconic Hollywood Laugh Factory will host its biennial Funniest Person in the World competition in Helsinki, Finland. The competition will take place from December 4th to the 10th.
April 15, 2016
The comedy and sports worlds don’t often overlap, save for the cringeworthy SNL episodes hosted by Charles Barkley and Michael Phelps. But on April 13, Chris Gethard welcomed his favorite basketball player, former New York Knicks shooting guard John Starks, for a special nerds-meet-jocks episode of The Chris Gethard Show.
April 15, 2016
The National Comedy Center Inc, an organization dedicated to celebrating and preserving comedy in all its forms, the headliners for this years annual Lucille Ball Comedy Festival. The festival is held in Jamestown, New York, the hometown of television and comedy icon Lucille Ball, and will take place from August 4th - 7th.
April 14, 2016
Kamau Bell, like many other Americans, is acutely aware of the division between people that exists in this country today. America is a diverse place, but diversity means difference, and difference often means conflict.
April 14, 2016
Seeso, the new comedy streaming service launched by NBCUniversal’s Digital Enterprises, will play host to two new shows this spring.
April 14, 2016
CBS announced today that they’ve promoted Chris Licht, creator and former EP of MSNBC’s Morning Joe, to executive producer/showrunner of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. […]