The Daily Show kicked off its week of Chicago shows last night, and the episode featured the above segment starring correspondent Roy Wood Jr., who heads to the South Side to meet some of the ex-gang members who now work for CeaseFire, a program that mediates gang conflict and patrols dangerous neighborhoods with the goal […]
Continue ReadingThe Upright Citizens Brigade is leaving its Chelsea location in New York to make way for a new location a little further uptown. According to The Wall Street Journal, UCB is moving from its West 26th Street location to Hell’s Kitchen at 555 West 42nd Street at the end of November. The move will be accompanied by […]
Continue ReadingThe Upright Citizens Brigade is leaving its Chelsea location in New York to make way for a new location a little further uptown. According to The Wall Street Journal, UCB is moving from its West 26th Street location to Hell’s Kitchen at 555 West 42nd Street at the end of November. The move will be accompanied by […]
Continue ReadingLast month, Paul Reiser and David Steven Simon’s Seeso show There’s…Johnny! found a new home at Hulu, and today the network announced the series premiere date. Originally ordered to series by Seeso last year, the show stars Ian Nelson, Jane Levy, Roger Bart, T’keyah Keymah, and Tony Danza and is set backstage at Johnny Carson’s Tonight […]
Continue ReadingI remember the day my mom got the call that I landed the part of Malcom in Malcom in the Middle. She was grinning from ear to ear when she told me and I thought, “Boy, I must be really special huh?” Heh. Special. Special is just a word that your mom calls you before bed, your […]
Continue ReadingWyatt Cenac is heading to HBO next year with his own late night show. The network announced today it’s ordered a 10-episode comedic docu-series starring Cenac with Ezra Edelman (O.J.: Made in America), John Oliver, Diane Fitzgerald (Last Week Tonight) and Hallie Haglund (Daily Show) – who will also serve as head writer — attached […]
Continue ReadingEarlier this year it was revealed that Childrens Hospital alum Erinn Hayes was let go from her starring role as Donna on Kevin James’s CBS sitcom Kevin Can Wait and that the show would deal with her firing by killing off her character altogether. In August, executive producer Rob Long defended the decision to TVLine, […]
Continue ReadingMark Forward has been performing standup comedy for two decades now, and he’s a bit of an anomaly in a number of ways. He’s a Canadian who doesn’t aspire to pack up and move to the United States to grow his career, instead choosing to remain in his native Toronto. From that base, he’s built […]
Continue ReadingKevin Hart is going on tour. Today the initial 2018 dates were announced for The Kevin Hart Irresponsible Tour, which starts in late December and makes stops in Orlando, Madison, Dayton, Syracuse, and more through late March. Here’s the list of dates that have been announced so far: December 21* – Hollywood, FL – Seminole […]
Continue ReadingHere it is, the first certified banger of SNL season 43! It’s almost like comedy is better when comedians do it. Who’da thought? Don’t get me wrong, part of the fun for the SNL nerd is seeing people go against their very serious brand. I can ask myself “How are the folks at Studio 8H […]
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