Craig Ferguson’s 2019 stand-up special will show up as a doc series via Comedy Dynamics

Craig Ferguson and Comedy Dynamics have teamed before to produce his stand-up specials, as well as a History Channel series. For their next trick, they’re turning Ferguson’s recent Hobo Fabulous tour into a six-episode series that’ll …

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Jimmy Kimmel and Norman Lear will stage all-star re-enactments of All in the Family and The Jeffersons

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: Norman Lear’s All in the Family and The Jeffersons is coming to ABC as a 90-minute primetime special, thanks not just to Lear and Jimmy Kimmel, but also Will Ferrell, Adam McKay, Brent Miller, and Justin Theroux. Kim…

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Mike Myers to star in Netflix sketch series

Netflix is making a big play for sketch comedy this year. They’ve already introduced series from Aussie Chris Lilley and American Tim Robinson. Now they’re adding an even bigger fish: Saturday Night Live alum and Austin Powers star Mike Mye…

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Rob Riggle to host “Global Investigator” series for Discovery

The Discovery Channel’s new summer ad campaign features a lot of old familiar faces, plus comedian Rob Riggle! Riggle will host a new series for Discovery, Global Investigator, taking him all over the world to explore some of our greatest mysteri…

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Lenny Marcus on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Lenny Marcus has eaten food before. So he’s not sure why people in restaurants make such a big deal about it. Watch him explain in this performance on The Tonight Show. Roll the clip.

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Episode #256: Chris Porter

Kansas City native Chris Porter caught his first big break just months after moving to Los Angeles with a gig competing on NBC’s Last Comic Standing. He finished third that season. Since then, Porter has recorded two comedy albums, a half-hour special …

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Jess Salomon on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Jess Salomon was a war-crimes attorney for the United Nations who married a Muslim woman and immigrated to the U.S. and became a stand-up comedian. As she joked on The Tonight Show and titled her first comedy album, she has made “All the Best Dec…

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Comedians enter the ring for Starrcast II Roast of Ric Flair in Vegas in May 2019

Wrestling great Ric Flair appeared in a fantasy sequence that opened the new stand-up comedy special from Ron Funches, and now the comedian will emcee a “nightmare” for Flair — the Roast of Ric Flair, throwing down May 24, 2019, in La…

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SiriusXM talk shows now available via Pandora podcasts

If you’re not a subscriber to SiriusXM satellite radio, now you can enjoy some of the talk programming on demand, thanks to Pandora. The SiriusXM podcasts available on Pandora now include shows from entertainment, and more. Here are the comedy of…

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