Kevin Hart is on the mend, making his first public appearance two months after a serious car crash in Los Angeles. Hart accepted the People’s Choice Award for Comedy Act on Sunday night. “First and foremost, man, thank God, because I defini…
Continue ReadingElliott Morgan is one of the members of The Valleyfolk, a crowd-funded Internet comedy troupe that won the inaugural season of NBC’s Bring The Funny in the summer of 2019, winning $250,000 and an invitation to perform at the Just For Laughs comedy fest…
Continue ReadingThe Soup is coming back to E! The cable channel announced the revival during Sunday night’s telecast of the People’s Choice Awards. Jade Catta-Preta (whom you’ve heard on my podcast) will host the new iteration, debuting early next ye…
Continue ReadingAs the ViacomCBS merger enters its final throes, the company is throwing Comedy Central chief Kent Alterman overboard. Chris McCarthy (no relation) will add Comedy Central, Paramount Network, TV Land and the Smithsonian Channel to his oversight. McCart…
Continue ReadingAmazon, the world’s largest retailer that manages to avoid paying any federal taxes, couldn’t avoid paying disgraced filmmaker Woody Allen to stop making movies. Amazon had a four-picture deal with Allen. But the online giant cancelled plan…
Continue ReadingI’m not quite “I’m too old for this shit” old just yet, but I am old enough that the passage of time is noticeable, not just in terms of seeing industry types (agents, managers, casting scouts) assemble once more for another com…
Continue ReadingJohn Crist, a homeschooled son of a pastor who marketed himself as a Christian comedian (yes, his last name is Crist), has cancelled the rest of his 2019 stand-up tour and seen his planned Netflix special for Thanksgiving put on the shelf, after he con…
Continue ReadingEmily Catalano has some thoughts about relationships, and about fantasy sports, and sometimes the two combine for even more jokes, as she demonstrated on Wednesday’s Conan. Roll the clip.
Continue ReadingAfter three seasons, The Jim Jefferies Show will come to a close on Comedy Central later this month. “The Jim Jefferies Show will air its final episode on Nov. 19, concluding a brilliant three-year run on Comedy Central,” said a spokesperson for Comedy…
Continue ReadingDESUS & MERO have their own beer now, thanks to The Bronx Brewery, which will issue a limited-release batch of “Bodega Boys Beer” this fall. Named after the podcast that Desus Nice and The Kid Mero launched and eventually grew into a la…
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