TV Academy modifies definitions of two Variety Special categories for 2018

The Television Academy announced some minor modifications to categories in its annual Emmy Awards, and one of the new changes for 2018 does impact the comedy world — especially James Corden, who with his production crew has been cleaning up in the variety categories the past couple of years. For 2018, the two Emmy categories […]

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Watch the trailer for Russell Howard’s new Netflix special, “Recalibrate”

Comedian and television host Russell Howard is coming to Netflix with his stand-up comedy special, Recalibrate. Howard is a wildly… MORE

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Watch Some Clips from ‘The President Show’s One-Hour Special ‘I Came Up with Christmas’

Anthony Atamanuik’s President Show aired its one-hour special I Came Up with Christmas: A President Show Christmas last night on Comedy Central, where Atamanuik’s Trump was joined by a bunch of special guests including Adam Pally’s Don Jr., John Gemberling’s Steve Bannon, James Adomian’s Bernie Sanders, Bebe Neuwirth, and a bunch more, and in case you […]

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Watch a teaser for Craig Ferguson’s new Netflix stand-up special

Netflix is ending its year on a strong note with a stacked handful of stand-up comedy specials. Kicking of the… MORE

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Watch a Sneak Peek of Comedy Central’s ‘Drunk History Christmas Special’ Featuring Rich Fulcher and Ken Marino

Comedy Central recently announced a batch of holiday specials, including a special from Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner called Drunk History Christmas Special. In the above sneak peek of the special, Waters sits down with Rich Fulcher to hear the story of how Teddy Roosevelt (played by Ken Marino) attempted to permanently ban the tradition of cutting down Christmas […]

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Dave Chappelle’s third Netflix stand-up special, “Equanimity” coming New Year’s Eve

Well, just when we thought that it was Todd Barry’s final comedy special being the last Netflix comedy special of… MORE

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Dave Chappelle’s third Netflix stand-up special, “Equanimity” coming New Year’s Eve

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Comedy Central Announces Its Next Round of Half-Hour Standup Specials

Comedy Central just announced the next batch of half-hour standup specials as part of its series Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents. Like the last round of specials, the series will tape at The Civic Theatre in New Orleans. Here’s the lineup: Emmy Blotnick Tim Dillon Devin Field Megan Gailey Chris Garcia Langston Kerman Mike Lawrence Ryan […]

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Todd Barry’s new Netflix special, “Spicy Honey” is premiering December 26th

It appears that Todd Barry is the comedian wrapping up Netflix’s one stand-up-special-per-week experiment with the release of his comedy… MORE

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Judd Apatow’s new comedy special, “The Return” will premiere on Netflix in December

At the beginning of the summer Judd Apatow made the announcement that he was returning to stand-up comedy with a… MORE

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