It’s rather noticeable that the person who helped bring roasts to Comedy Central is nowhere to be seen or heard from in the cable network’s forthcoming weeklong celebration of Hall of Flame: Top 100 Roast Moments, planned for March 29 throu…
Continue ReadingLast summer, Comedy Dynamics set up a big stage and a bigger screen outside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., to film four separate stand-up comedy specials. Now we know when we’ll get to see the results! Tribeca Enterprises and Comedy Dynamics …
Continue ReadingLate-night stand-up comedy is back in the studio, baby! What a long year it has been. Congrats to Mike Vecchione for getting the nod, invited inside 30 Rock to perform on Wednesday night’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Vecchi…
Continue ReadingLate-night stand-up comedy is back in the studio, baby! What a long year it has been. Congrats to Mike Vecchione for getting the nod, invited inside 30 Rock to perform on Wednesday night’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Vecchi…
Continue ReadingPaul Reubens is getting a multi-part documentary, thanks in part to HBO and the Safdie brothers. Matt Wolf will direct the two-parter, from HBO Documentary Films and Elara, and produced by Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Sebastian Bear-McClard, and Josh and Be…
Continue ReadingComedy Central has hired Roy Wood Jr. for another gig with the network, announcing today a new podcast called Roy’s Job Fair. Produced in partnership with iHeartMedia, the 40-episode weekly series debuts March 17. Fans of Wood already know he’s b…
Continue ReadingComedy Central has hired Roy Wood Jr. for another gig with the network, announcing today a new podcast called Roy’s Job Fair. Produced in partnership with iHeartMedia, the 40-episode weekly series debuts March 17. Fans of Wood already know he’s b…
Continue ReadingComedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah is going where no Daily Show has gone before: Into the daylight for a special geared toward kids. It’s called Remotely Educational. As this teaser clip demonstrates, you’ll be seeing an…
Continue ReadingInstead of bringing the comedy industry to Austin this March, SXSW 2021 has coordinated a series of filmed performances in front of live audiences at seven different comedy clubs across America. From the festival: “SXSW Comedy invited some of the…
Continue ReadingChristina Anthony is an East St. Louis native who came up through the Chicago comedy scene. Anthony joined The Second City, where she performed with e.t.c. and the touring company, and co-wrote three award-nominated sketch revues for the legendary come…
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