Get ready to sock it to yourself once more! Netflix is gathering a bunch of comedy stars this coming Friday in Hollywood to tape Still LAUGH-IN: The Stars Celebrate, a 50th anniversary tribute to Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In. Rowan & Martin&…
Continue ReadingBack in the mid-2000s, Comedy Central boasted weekly episodes of The Showbiz Show with David Spade and Crank Yankers. Is it 2005 again? Both Spade and the prank phone-call puppets are returning to Comedy Central in 2019. This time, though, Spade will t…
Continue ReadingThe actual White House Correspondents’ Dinner may not feature any comedians in 2019. Which makes Samantha Bee’s Not the White House Correspondents’ Dinner even more special its second time around. “I vowed never to host a NWHCD ever a…
Continue ReadingYou didn’t think Preacher Lawson was going to show us his workout routine and then not show us the results? Lawson, the only stand-up comedian to make the finals of AGT’s The Champions, performed his shirt off! We’ll find out the resu…
Continue ReadingLost Voice Guy won Britain’s Got Talent last year. This year, he got an invite to America to perform on the all-star Champions edition of AGT.
Continue ReadingA dozen stand-up comedians descended upon New Orleans last week so Comedy Central could record their new half-hour specials. Ten taped for Comedy Central Presents, while two taped for the Amy Schumer Presents banner. Comedy Central Stand-Up Presents… t…
Continue ReadingIn the years since the last edition of Last Comic Standing, comedians have gotten their biggest breaks on NBC via America’s Got Talent. But on AGT, they’ve had to compete with all sorts of entertainers, and aside from ventriloquists, no com…
Continue ReadingA Black Lady Sketch Show will premiere on HBO in 2019. Robin Thede, last seen hosting a weekly talk show for BET, and before that writing and performing for Larry Wilmore’s nightly talk show on Comedy Central, will star in the sketch comedy serie…
Continue ReadingAmazon announced today it will launch Jim Gaffigan’s seventh stand-up special, Quality Time, as its first original stand-up comedy special for Prime Video, to premiere later in 2019. Gaffigan is up for a Grammy for last year’s special, Noble Ape…
Continue ReadingAmazon announced today it will launch Jim Gaffigan’s seventh stand-up special, Quality Time, as its first original stand-up comedy special for Prime Video, to premiere later in 2019. Gaffigan is up for a Grammy for last year’s special, Noble Ape…
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