Nov. 11, 2013
Seth MacFarlane Gets Another Animated Show at Fox Fox has bought another animated comedy from Family Guy creator Seth MacFarlane. TV Guide reports that the network has ordered 13 episodes of […]
Nov. 11, 2013
Nate Bargatze Gets Development Deal with NBC Nate Bargatze was on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Friday night to do standup, and before his set, Fallon announced that Bargatze has signed […]
Nov. 8, 2013
Behind the Scenes of ‘The Colbert Report’ with Colbert and His Writers As part of the New York Comedy Festival, Stephen Colbert sat down with 17 of his writers and producers last night to give a behind the scenes […]
Nov. 8, 2013
Stephen Colbert Is Campaigning for His People’s Choice Award Stephen Colbert isn’t resting on his recent Emmys win, because the People’s Choice Awards apparently still exist and he wants one. Colbert is […]
Nov. 8, 2013
Watch the Latest ‘Greatest Event In Television History’ The third installment of Adam Scott’s The Greatest Event in Television History ran last night on Adult Swim – a shot-by-shot remake of the […]
Nov. 8, 2013
‘The Onion’ Is Ending Its Print Publication Entirely The Onion will stop publishing its last few print publications this December. Crain’s Chicago Business reports that the newspaper version of […]
Nov. 8, 2013
ABC Buys Comedy Written by and Starring Kristen Schaal Daily Show correspondent Kristen Schaal and former Daily Show writer Rich Blomquist (who’s also her husband) have sold a sitcom to ABC, […]
Nov. 8, 2013
Maron Did Some Top Quality Maron-Ranting on ‘Conan’ Last Night
Marc Maron swung by Conan last night, and as an old friend of the show, he felt more than comfortable immediately switching into rant mode on […]
Nov. 7, 2013
A Look at The Cast of ‘Arrested Development’ On ‘Inside the Actors Studio’
Tonight on Bravo, the case of Arrested Development will sit down with one of their own when they join James Lipton aka Warden Gentles on his […]
Nov. 7, 2013
Chris Elliott Made It to Letterman Last Night After Finishing the NYC […]
Chris Elliott appeared on The Late Show with David Letterman last night, and since his career really began when he started writing and […]
Nov. 7, 2013
The White House Will Be Forced to ‘Investigate’ a Joke From ‘Jimmy Kimmel […] Last week, ABC issued an apology for a child’s remark about China from the October 16 episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live. Nevertheless, a petition […]
Nov. 7, 2013
Talking to Alex Richanbach About His Film ‘We Are Young’, Working with […] Last month, Funny or Die released its second full-length film, We Are Young. The film was written, directed, and starred in by Funny or Die […]
Nov. 7, 2013
Aziz Ansari Talked Racist Grandmas and Celebrity Eyebrows on ‘Conan’
Aziz Ansari’s been making the rounds recently to promote his new special, and he stopped by Conan last night for a discussion that ended up […]
Nov. 7, 2013
ABC Developing a Retirement Comedy and Another Sitcom from Kelly Ripa ABC has a few more sitcoms in the works for next year. One will follow “three long-lost basketball teammates who reconnect in their 60s and […]
Nov. 7, 2013
June Diane Raphael and Casey Wilson Explored Their Clowning Past with Pete […]
Casey Wilson and June Diane Raphael swung by The Pete Holmes Show last night, and Pete couldn’t help but ask about their earlier days in clown […]
Nov. 6, 2013
How ‘SNL’s Wes Anderson Parody Came Together “Adam had just uploaded the fixes to the server, then raced over to the live monitor and just held his breath as our spot went live exactly 20 […]
Nov. 6, 2013
‘Better Call Saul’ Might Be A Sequel, Or a Prequel/Sequel Combo Better Call Saul, the highly anticipated Breaking Bad spinoff starring Bob Odenkirk’s lawyer character Saul Goodman, may not end up being a […]
Nov. 6, 2013
‘Conan’ Fined $25,000 by the FCC for Using Emergency Alert Sounds Like yelling fire in a crowded theater, it is apparently very illegal to use emergency alerts on television when there’s no emergency. The […]
Nov. 6, 2013
Stephen Colbert Looks Deeper Into the Drug War In Canada In light of the recent drug revelations about Toronto Mayor Rob Ford, Stephen Colbert turned his attention to another ongoing drug-related […]
Nov. 6, 2013
Relive the 1993 Efforts of Sandler, Leary, Foxworthy, and The Jerky Boys “The comedy album lives, and all it took was a bunch of rednecks, assholes, jerks, and buffoons to save it.”
- As part of The A.V. Club’s 1993 […]
Nov. 6, 2013
Anthony Jeselnik Roasted Pete Holmes Last Night
Anthony Jeselnik stopped by The Pete Holmes Show last night to make fun of Pete, but they ended up talking about Anthony’s very prepared, […]
Nov. 6, 2013
FX Sets Premiere Dates for ‘Archer’ and ‘Chozen’ FX has set January premiere dates for Archer and Danny McBride’s new animated sitcom Chozen. The two will air in an animation block on Monday […]
Nov. 5, 2013
Comedy Central Picks Up Six New Digital Series CC: Studios, the digital arm of Comedy Central, is developing six new series that will be distributed across all of the networks platforms, […]
Nov. 5, 2013
Stephen Colbert Finds the Perfect Bot to Praise Fox News While his ex-boss has been responding to Fox News’s coverage of his jokes, Stephen Colbert has realized there aren’t enough good things said […]
Nov. 5, 2013
Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart are Starring in an Action-Comedy from […] Jesse Eisenberg and Kristen Stewart are set to star in American Ultra, an action comedy from Chronicle writer Max Landis and Project […]
Nov. 5, 2013
‘HIMYM’ Will Do an Entire Episode in Rhyme How I Met Your Mother is wrapping things up in its ninth season, and the writers are apparently experimenting with some odd methods in this […]
Nov. 5, 2013
FX Is Developing a Sitcom Based on ‘Texts From Bennett’ Book FX is turning the popular blog-turned-book Texts from Bennett into a sitcom from Wilfred executive producer and director Randall Einhorn. The […]
Nov. 5, 2013
Pete Holmes and Ike Barinholtz Confirm That They’re Not the Same Person
The Mindy Project’s Ike Barinholtz stopped by Pete Holmes’s new show last night to address the fact that people can’t tell them apart, and the […]
Nov. 4, 2013
Looking Back at 15 of Leno’s Best Appearances on Letterman’s ‘Late Night’ On last friday’s Tonight Show, Bravo host Andy Cohen attempted to wring some gossip out of Jay Leno by asking about the most annoying […]
Nov. 4, 2013
Supertickets to Go on Sale for Early ‘Anchorman 2’ Screenings Paramount Studios will be selling “supertickets” that get fans in to see the long-awaited Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues two days before it […]
Nov. 4, 2013
Egyptian TV Station Pulls Episode of Bassem Youssef’s Satirical Show ‘El […] An episode of Egyptian satirist Bassem Youssef’s political satire show El Bernameg (The Program) was pulled last week because the show […]
Nov. 4, 2013
ABC Gives Full Season Orders to ‘The Goldbergs’ and ‘Trophy Wife’ ABC is doubling down on a couple of its new sitcoms. The networks has ordered extra nine episodes of both The Goldbergs and Trophy Wife, giving […]
Nov. 4, 2013
Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg Are Producing a Movie with the ‘Workaholics’ […] Seth Rogen’s production company Point Grey is teaming up with legendary producer Scott Rudin to produce a movie that will star […]
Nov. 1, 2013
‘The Addams Family’ Is Coming Back as an Animated Movie One of the original horror comedies is returning. The Addams Family, which originated as a single panel New Yorker cartoon in the 1930s and […]
Nov. 1, 2013
Eddie Brill Talks George Carlin, Letterman, and Advice for Other Comics “Carlin told him: ‘Just tell the truth from your perspective and no-one can ever argue with that. Just don’t make fun of other people’s lives […]
Nov. 1, 2013
Watch the Very Promising New Trailer for ‘The Lego Movie’
A movie set entirely in a world of Legos could so easily go wrong, and yet this trailer for the upcoming action/comedy Lego Movie looks pretty […]
Nov. 1, 2013
Chelsea Peretti and Pete Holmes Showed Off Their Perfect Friendship
Pete Holmes’ worst best friend Chelsea Peretti stopped by his new show last night, and she lived up to her role by immediately criticizing […]
Nov. 1, 2013
Jon Stewart Responds to the Media’s Coverage of ‘The Daily Show’ in Song […] The cable news world tends to see Jon Stewart as the comedic face of the young and liberal, so The Daily Show’s recent coverage of the botched […]
Nov. 1, 2013
Jason Schwartzman and Jimmy Fallon Performed a Special Folk/Rock/Disco […]
Jason Schwartzman was a guest on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night, so the two musically-inclined comedy people decided to revive their […]
Oct. 31, 2013
Joel McHale Will Star in a Softball Dramedy From the Writer of ‘Nebraska’ Joel McHale is set to star in The Tribe, an upcoming film “about a Native American high-school girls softball team and the new coach who […]
Oct. 31, 2013
The Theme From ‘The Best Show on WFMU’ Was Played on the Organ at Fenway […]
After yesterday’s depressing news that The Best Show on WFMU will end its run in December, the show got a nice tribute at the final game of […]
Oct. 31, 2013
Watch the Trailer for Ron Burgundy’s New Book
There’s a lot of Ron Burgundy to go around these days. Along with Anchorman 2: The Legend Continues, which comes out in December, his dozens […]
Oct. 31, 2013
Talking to Aziz Ansari About His New Special, ‘Parks and Rec’, and Why He […] Beloved by many as the stylish Tom Haverford on Parks and Recreation, Aziz Ansari has been amassing an impressive standup catalog for a young […]
Oct. 31, 2013
CBS Is Considering Spinning Off ‘How I Met Your Mother’ with ‘How I Met […] As CBS’s hit sitcom How I Met Your Mother is kicking off its ninth and final season, Variety reports that the network is considering launching […]
Oct. 30, 2013
Taran Killam Is Really Into Kerry Washington In Their ‘SNL’ Promos
Kerry Washington is hosting Saturday Night Live this weekend with Eminem, and since SNL’s hosts this year seem to be chosen largely based on […]
Oct. 30, 2013
What It’s Like to Be an Artistic Director at a Comedy Theater Comedy is an industry, and for every performer on stage, there are hundreds of people working behind-the-scenes. These creative and business […]
Oct. 30, 2013
Al Madrigal Tried to Compare Alabama and Mississippi’s Homophobia On last night’s Daily Show, Al Madrigal headed down to Alabama and Mississippi to figure out which state was likely to hold out on legalizing […]
Oct. 30, 2013
Stephen Colbert Has Some Solid Suggestions for Making a Bit More Money Last night on The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert took a look at the creative ways in which Americans are making ends meet. And luckily, he’s […]
Oct. 30, 2013
Mitch Hurwitz, Tim & Eric to Guest Star on ‘Community’ The upcoming season of Community is already set to have plenty of cast changes, and now the show has announced even more big name stars will be […]
Oct. 30, 2013
Conchords’ Bret McKenzie Is Developing an Animated Sitcom for Fox Bret McKenzie of Flights of the Conchords is developing an animated comedy about NASA for Fox. According to TV Guide, the “untitled workplace […]
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