Fox just handed out a renewal to its freshman comedy The Mick. According to Variety, the network has officially renewed the Kaitlin Olson-starring series for a second season. The show debuted on the network on New Year’s Day and is currently airing on Tuesday nights at 8:30pm.
Continue ReadingThe 2017 Writers Guild Awards were handed out over the weekend, and in addition to Donald Glover’s new FX show Atlanta winning two awards for Comedy Series and New Series, writers from BoJack Horseman, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, Saturday Night Live, and Triumph’s Election Special 2016 took home awards for their work […]
Continue ReadingJason Jones doesn’t look at his new TV role on The Detour as much of a departure from his days as a correspondent for The Daily Show. In fact, one of his biggest takeaways from working with Jon Stewart is the driving force behind his new series, which he co-created with his wife Samantha Bee and debuted […]
Continue ReadingJason Jones doesn’t look at his new TV role on The Detour as much of a departure from his days as a correspondent for The Daily Show. In fact, one of his biggest takeaways from working with Jon Stewart is the driving force behind his new series, which he co-created with his wife Samantha Bee and debuted […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from Jordan Peele’s appearance on last night’s Late Night, where he revives his fantastic Barack Obama impression at Seth Meyers’s request to give the world a taste of what the former POTUS — now drunk and on vacation — would think about everything that’s going on right now with Donald Trump. Check […]
Continue ReadingOver the weekend, Donald Trump confused the world and particularly Sweden when he seemed to imply during his Florida rally that a terrorist attack happened in Sweden on Friday night, and even though nothing notably bad happened in Sweden in reality, that didn’t stop Stephen Colbert from honoring all the nonexistent victims of the nonexistent […]
Continue ReadingSitcom showrunner Mike Royce has generously donated his time and attention, not only to picking the title cards that appear at the end of each episode he produces, but also in sharing them with The Comic’s Comic and our readers. You can see previous Snowpants Productions cards of Royce and his extended family from episodes […]
Continue ReadingSteve O’Donnell remained humble as he accepted the Herb Sargent Award at the 2017 Writers Guild Awards, wondering if perhaps the WGA had confused him for another former head writer of Late Night with David Letterman, or perhaps Saturday Night Live, or even his identical twin, Mark, who co-wrote the Broadway musical Hairspray. Steve O’Donnell’s credits […]
Continue ReadingHard work, determination and an honestly funny outlook on life pays off. Just ask Roy Wood Jr., or rather, watch Wood’s first stand-up hour special, Father Figure, on Comedy Central. After a two-decade climb through comedy clubs and radio stations across the South and later, across America, through a finalist finish on Last Comic Standing and […]
Continue ReadingThe Late Show is going live later this month. According to Deadline, Stephen Colbert will host a live episode of Late Show on Tuesday, February 28th — the same night Donald Trump is scheduled to address Congress. Colbert will be joined by Lisa Kudrow and former White House Press Secretary Josh Earnest. Colbert went live […]
Continue Reading