When the federal Small Business Administration finally released information this week on how they distributed $670 billion in available funds this spring through PPP (Paycheck Protection Program) loans, comedy fans were quick to pounce on the Upright C…
Continue ReadingJohn Mulaney premiered John Mulaney & The Sack Lunch Bunch, a parody of children’s TV shows, last year on Netflix. He’ll make two more specials with the kids for Comedy Central. Comedy Central announced the news Tuesday. At least one of…
Continue ReadingThis shouldn’t shock anyone in 2020, but Just For Laughs pulled the plug on this fall’s JFL42 festival in Toronto. JFL announced the news Tuesday. Instead of taking place from Sept. 24 to Oct. 3, 2020, the ninth edition of Toronto’s J…
Continue ReadingGary Larson, the cartoonist who retired his popular “The Far Side” strip on Jan. 1, 1995, has returned online with new comic strips. Credit the digital tablet age with reinvigorating Larson! As he wrote today in a letter accompanying the de…
Continue ReadingConan O’Brien took his TBS show out of his home and into Largo at The Coronet Theater in West Hollywood on Monday, along with a skeleton crew and an “audience” of one, his assistant, Sona. Why? Let Conan explain it: “Well, a lot…
Continue ReadingJimmy Kimmel Live! returns tonight after a two-week hiatus, but without Kimmel at the helm. Kimmel announced he was taking the summer off, after broadcasting monologues and conducting interviews at home under quarantine, to spend time with his family a…
Continue ReadingFor more than 30 years, we’ve seen Wally Feresten emerge from time to time, from just off-camera to on camera, as the longtime cue card guy for Saturday Night Live (as well as NBC’s Late Night franchise). When TV went into quarantine in Mar…
Continue ReadingTBS hasn’t been keeping up really up to date on voting from the first two weeks of head-to-head comedy videos for its first-ever Tournament of Laughs competition. But with barely an hour before broadcast of week three, obviously the comedians had…
Continue ReadingTonight many of Boston’s old-school comedy legends will reunite online to perform and celebrate the 40th anniversary of the Ding Ho, and in doing so, honor the late Barry Crimmins and raise money for his widow, Helen. The show starts at 7:30 p.m….
Continue ReadingThe COVID-19 pandemic sent Conan O’Brien home in March and his TBS Conan crew out of its Burbank studios on the Warner Bros. lot. In July, Team Coco is returning to a stage. Just not in Burbank. Instead, starting July 6, CONAN will start broadcas…
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