It’s a big news week for Wyatt Cenac. First, HBO revealed the premiere date for his new series Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas, and today the network dropped the first trailer. Ordered to series back in October 2017, the 10-episode docu-series is produced by John Oliver and will feature both remote field pieces and in-studio commentary, […]
Continue ReadingNorm Macdonald has a show on Netflix. That’s the title, too!? After hinting that such a deal was in the works, Macdonald and the streaming giant confirmed the news today, that the comedian and former SNL Weekend Update anchor would get 10 episodes of his newest talk show on Netflix later this year. So it’s […]
Continue ReadingJB Smoove stopped by last night’s Conan, where he took some time to pitch some of his many great TV show ideas to O’Brien. Among those ideas is a self-explanatory reality show called Living Under a Baby Pool, a late night show where the guests interview Smoove called Let’s Not Make This About Me, and […]
Continue ReadingHere’s a clip from last night’s Late Night, where Seth Meyers welcomes back writers Amber Ruffin and Jenny Hagel for a brand new edition of “Jokes Seth Can’t Tell.” The two crack jokes at all the recent news stories that Meyers can’t touch, including lesbian softball coaches and Olympic athletes, Stacey Dash running for Congress, […]
Continue ReadingShowtime’s half-hour animated Trump series Our Cartoon President isn’t leaving TV anytime soon. The network announced today that it’s ordered seven additional episodes of the Stephen Colbert-produced show, which will air sometime this summer. The series premiered on Showtime last month and wraps up its original 10-episode run on Sunday, April 8th at 8:00pm. So far, reviews […]
Continue ReadingReal Time meets real talk next month, as HBO has announced a Friday the 13th premiere for Wyatt Cenac’s Problem Areas. Airing at 11:30 p.m. Eastern Friday nights on HBO, Cenac will star in 10 weekly episodes taking him all across America to examine the real problems facing us socially, culturally, politically and financially. He […]
Continue ReadingCanadians now have another streaming platform of their own to pitch their stand-up comedy specials. CraveTV‘s first original comedy special, Darcy Michael Goes To Church, premieres Friday. It’s the first of three stand-up projects coming to CraveTV in partnership with Just For Laughs, filmed last September during the JFL42 festival in Toronto. The others star Debra […]
Continue ReadingAt long last, The Chris Gethard Show returns to truTV later this month with a new batch of live episodes, but if today’s new promo is any indication, Gethard is having some anxiety-ridden second thoughts about this whole live TV show thing. The show returns Tuesday, March 20th at 11:00pm, so hopefully by then he’s […]
Continue ReadingtruTV and Funny or Die are keeping Murr, Q, Joe and Sal in the pranking business, both on the small and big screens, for the next few years. Not only is Impractical Jokers getting an eighth season on truTV for 2019, but the fellas also will star together in their first feature-length movie, directed by Chris […]
Continue ReadingYou can tell by the look on Steve Harvey’s face that things are not going well for Mason Pryor, the young son of the late comedy legend Richard Pryor, on this episode of Showtime at the Apollo. After a big buildup and an opening “hello!” from Mason, the audience loses interest in his premise about […]
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