The way TV viewing has shifted in my lifetime, I’m surprised more broadcast networks aren’t putting their best shows on Sunday nights. That said, there’s more to the story of NBC announcing five special Sunday night episodes of The To…
Continue ReadingFresh off the debut of its weekly docuseries partnership with The New York Times, The Weekly, FX has announced five more docs coming to the cable network in the months ahead. One of them is about women in comedy. Here’s the official description f…
Continue ReadingABC is doing everything it can to keep Jimmy Kimmel happy in 2019. First, the network is letting Kimmel go “home” to Brooklyn once more this October during the week of Oct. 21, 2019, broadcasting from the Brooklyn Academy of Music’s H…
Continue ReadingYour eyes have not deceived you. Season three of Atlanta has not returned to FX in 2019 like the cable TV network told you it would. But fear not! At the summer TCAs, the FX brass announced they’d reached a deal with Atlanta creator Donald Glover…
Continue ReadingAfter four episodes of “Open Mic” showcases of Bring The Funny, which winnowed the field of comedy acts from 40 down to 24, we are now into the first of the “Comedy Clash” episodes, which will reduce the competition in half. It&…
Continue ReadingJackie Fabulous said her Jamaican mother had never seen her perform stand-up comedy before, until she made it to the Judges Cuts rounds of America’s Got Talent 2019. She did mom proud by getting a standing ovation from the judges, kudos from gues…
Continue ReadingWe all could use some good, lighthearted news. Thank God for Reggie Watts. And thank goodness for some good, old-fashioned hijinks among TV shows sharing the same studio facilities. I remember watching classic clips of Johnny Carson heading out of his …
Continue Reading“All of those people who are in prison right now were kids once, just like you. They went to school. They had girlfriends, boyfriends. They played baseball. Rode their bikes. Just like you! And then, somewhere along the way, they did something wr…
Continue ReadingFor all of the special live editions of late-night talk shows happening right now, by far my favorite dissection of the state of American politics now by comedians is happening now in an almost live fashion by Comedy Central’s This Week at the Co…
Continue ReadingLook, I’m as confused as anyone else watching this summer’s comedy competition on NBC called Bring The Funny. Here’s what I know: Each of the first four Tuesday nights, they presented 10 comedy acts of varying types (stand-up, sketch,…
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