The New York Television Festival has selected 13 half-hour comedy scripts for its third annual NYTVF Scripts Competition, with industry executives poring over them and perhaps granting one or more of them with development deals after the fest this July in Manhattan. Among the more intriguing selections, a script by FOX News/FOX Business Network’s Melissa Francis […]
Continue ReadingNBC has become the first American broadcast TV network to launch its own podcast network that complements its primetime programming. The NBC Entertainment Podcast Network has launched this summer with podcasts devoted to Late Night with Seth Meyers, American Ninja Warrior and The Good Place. You can find these podcast episodes on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Google Play […]
Continue ReadingTom Papa has been telling Joe Rogan about bread for years. Here he was a couple of years ago bringing homemade sourdough to the Joe Rogan Experience. Two days ago, Papa was back on the JRE, this time to announce he’s got a new TV series about bread and baked goods, Baked!, premiering this Labor […]
Continue ReadingSpeaking of Roast Battle… Comedy Central finally announced a renewal for season three of Roast Battle, which debuted as a live and tape-delayed tournament at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival in 2016, followed quickly by a second season filmed in Hollywood. It’ll get six new episodes with a new tournament of stand-ups facing off against […]
Continue ReadingThe Fix is in at Netflix. Yes, groan all you want. Then ask comedians Jimmy Carr, Katherine Ryan and D.L. Hughley to fix that, too. The streaming platform has announced it has ordered up 10 episodes of a topical panel show starring the three comedians — Carr will host, while Ryan and Hughley captain rival […]
Continue ReadingIf you were wondering how in the heck New Faces would matter in Montreal once ICM bought a stake in Just For Laughs, here’s a new one for you: Even the comedians who don’t get New Faces this year might get TV credits! Amazon announced today it’s filming a six-episode docuseries in collaboration with Montreal’s […]
Continue ReadingSamuel J. Comroe has won the San Francisco Comedy Competition as well as a contest run by Ricky Gervais, but the comedian got his biggest audience yet auditioning Tuesday for America’s Got Talent. Comroe joked about the time his parents sent him to Tourettes camp. Roll the clip!
Continue ReadingSethward is a performance artist of a comedian, who likes to dress up as animals. At least from what we’ve seen of him on TV these past two summers. This Tuesday night on America’s Got Talent, the audience and judges saw even more of him, as Sethward flashed his junk at the end of a […]
Continue ReadingNathan Fielder has proven quite successful at manipulating the media and business worlds, often at the same time, through his Comedy Central series Nathan For You. Now he’s potentially really outdone himself. And that’s saying something considering his most recent season finale. Because now, Fielder has gotten an election security expert to show us how […]
Continue ReadingNathan Fielder has proven quite successful at manipulating the media and business worlds, often at the same time, through his Comedy Central series Nathan For You. Now he’s potentially really outdone himself. And that’s saying something considering his most recent season finale. Because now, Fielder has gotten an election security expert to show us how […]
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