In the week before the 2018 elections, The Daily Show with Trevor Noah is hitting the beach. Miami Beach. A special week of “undesked” shows will film from The Fillmore Miami Beach at the Jackie Gleason Theater, airing nightly from Monday-Thursday, Oct. 29 to Nov. 1. Tickets to the tapings are free, available only through The Daily Show at www.dailyshow.com/miami. […]
Continue ReadingWhat started in the basement under a supermarket almost a decade ago has run its course. The final episode of The Chris Gethard Show that aired at the end of May 2018 on truTV was the final episode of TCGS. Gethard confirmed the news today. The Chris Gethard Show is no more. Thank you all […]
Continue ReadingWhen people talk about the longest-running TV shows in American history, will they remember to mention Whose Line Is It Anyway? Before August 1998, improvisational comedy wasn’t even really seen on television. Certainly not as the main attraction. But on Aug. 5, 1998, Whose Line made the move from British telly (and Comedy Central) to […]
Continue ReadingHere’s something you haven’t seen before: A Netflix series making the leap from streaming back to cable. Critical darling BoJack Horseman is going into syndication, and Comedy Central has nabbed the rights to air the animated series on the “regular” TV. And by regular, we still mean cable. Season one episodes of BoJack will begin […]
Continue ReadingProduction began over the weekend in Portland, Ore., for Shrill, a six-episode limited series on Hulu starring Saturday Night Live‘s Aidy Bryant based on journalist Lindy West’s 2016 memoir. The shooting schedule, much like Portlandia before it, will not prevent Bryant from starring in SNL this fall. Particularly since Lorne Michaels’ Broadway Video and Brownstone […]
Continue ReadingMexican comedy star Eugenio Derbez will host a new Amazon Prime Video competition in which 10 Mexican comedians match wits and witty lines in pursuit of one million Mexican pesos. LOL: Last One Laughing will premiere later this year. It’s adapted from a Japanese TV series, Hitoshi Matsumoto Presents Documental, in which ten comedians bet money in […]
Continue ReadingOliver Graves is still goth, but doesn’t want to keep working retail jobs, so he hopes his look and his jokes are enough for this 2018 season of America’s Got Talent. But is it enough? Apparently not. He didn’t get chosen for the live shows this summer. Now you be the judge. Roll the clip.
Continue ReadingDom Irrera went off-script, Dennis Rodman bombed, Ed Norton surprised everyone and no one by focusing his roast on himself, and Demi Moore threatened to steal the show by showing up as a surprise at the Roast of Bruce Willis. Did you miss anything else from last night’s roast on Comedy Central? Here are some […]
Continue ReadingWelp. The Rundown with Robin Thede offered a strong, funny point-of-view you could find nowhere else on TV or streaming, complete with fun musical numbers and obligatory body rolls. And yet BET never knew what to do with what it had. And so BET announced today it wasn’t renewing Thede’s late-night talker for a second […]
Continue ReadingChris Hardwick is in the clear in the eyes of AMC. The cable network announced today that Hardwick will return to its airwaves Aug. 12, 2018, as host of Talking Dead for the after-shows of The Walking Dead and Fear the Walking Dead, following an investigation into allegations he was sexually and emotionally abusive to […]
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