February 15, 2016

Real Time and Inside Amy Schumer Take Home Writing Awards and Elaine May Saves the Day…Again

The Writers Guild of America 2016 writing awards were handed out over the weekend. The guild breaks up the ceremonies into two events, one on each coast. In the age of social media, the announcement of winners often gets to the left coast well before the event begins, destroying the anticipation and dulling the proverbial shine of the event. Legendary screenwriter Elaine May managed to save the day with her insight and wit, playfully mocking role of the writer in Hollywood. “Then someone told me there’s going to be a red carpet...Excuse me, no designer is going to give writers clothes!”
February 9, 2016

ABC Takes Page out of SPIKE Playbook, Orders Show Based on Jimmy Kimmel’s “Who Knows…”

SPIKE hit a homerun when it turned Jimmy Fallon’s late night “Lip Sync Battles” into a full series and just last week the network announced it was also producing a one off special based off James Corden’s Carpool Karaoke. This week ABC announced that Jimmy Kimmel and Banijay Studios are teaming up to bring us “Big Fan”, the ultimate superfan game show.
January 29, 2016

Hannibal Buress Remembers His Biggest Bomb

Hannibal Buress promoted his new special, Comedy Camisado on Jimmy Kimmel Live Thursday night. He explained that the main reason he named his special Comedy Camisado, was because he wanted to use a funny word, and calling it Twat Waffle Camisado was out of the question.
January 27, 2016

Jack Black Knows How to Make an Entrance

Some people stroll onto the stage when they are guests on talk shows, some saunter, and some even skip. But nobody makes an entrance like Jack Black. Watch him come to the stage on Jimmy Kimmel Live Tuesday night. And believe us, he can handle it. Later he talked about Tenacious D, which is still going strong.
January 4, 2016

Comedians on Late Night: Week of January 4, 2016

It's 2016 and everyone is back and well rested from a long vacation. Time to enjoy plenty of brand new Late Night for a Brand New Year. Here's your guide to comedians hitting up the late night talk shows for this week, January 4, 2016.
December 29, 2015

Beth Stelling Will Not Be Stopped; Rising Comedy Star Shares Abusive Past and Bright Future on Instagram

Monday afternoon rising comedy star Beth Stelling posted on her Instagram some very personal photos showing her badly bruised legs, along with a statement announcing that she has been the victim in a past abusive relationship. If you've ever seen Beth perform you know her as a powerful, confident woman, and so the revelations she shares in the Instagram are shocking and troubling on many levels. If you've seen her in person, you know she's tall, and exudes a quiet kind of strength in her demeanor.
December 28, 2015

The Biggest Comedy-Generating News Stories of 2015

These are the news stories that kept every comedian busy on twitter, that kept the writers rooms for every daytime and late night show buzzing, kept Funny or Die and other digital sketch writers happy and kept the bloggers of the world busy. These 10 news stories generated the most comedy sketches, joke tweets, and digital shorts everywhere. They were the stories that seemed to never go away. The ten biggest comedy-generating news stories of 2015.
December 23, 2015

Top Ten Moments in Late Night in 2015

Late night talk shows are a huge source of comedy. The hosts all have a background in comedy, the writers are all primarily comedy writers, there are comedy guests, stand up performances, comedy sketches, and of course the monologues. This was a huge year for late night, with legendary hosts leaving, new hosts coming on board, and all kinds of shake ups in lineups. With the tenor of late night programming shifting uncomfortably to bar games, it's important to celebrate the greatness, and there was plenty. There were last epic last nights, creative first nights, and some great moments in between. We picked our top ten.
December 9, 2015

Albert Brooks Explains Why 11:30 at Night is a No Beard Time

Albert Brooks has played some of the greatest comedy roles ever in film, and he's also played a dangerous criminal, but this year he's promoting a very different kind of film from anything he's done before. Brooks is playing Cyril H. Wecht, MD, JD in the new movie "Concussions" and he went on Jimmy Kimmel live Tuesday night to talk about the film, and share a clip.