Amy Poehler is coming to Comedy Central! Sort of. The network announced today that popular Web series Broad City has been picked up to series and will debut 10 episodes in 2014. Poehler will executive produce the comedy, centered around Upright Citizens Brigade alums Abbi...
Before tonight's episode of The Jeselnik Offensive aired, viewers were already outraged about a segment called "Shark Party," which Comedy Central uploaded to its official site as well as its YouTube channel yesterday. Pegged to the death of shark-attack victim Adam Strange, 46,...
To say comedy -- especially stand-up comedy -- is a rough, mostly thankless business, would be a severe understatement. Any comedian, even the hugely popular ones, will tell you they've experienced many more embarrassing failures than they have had unmitigated successes. Great...
As he explained in an eloquently-written post on his official site today, comedian Patton Oswalt tonight is auctioning off a great deal of memorabilia he acquired during his nine years playing Spence on the massively successful CBS series King of Queens. He's doing so to raise...
The long-awaited IFC series based on comedian Marc Maron’s life will premiere on Friday, May 3 at 10 pm ET on IFC. The 10-episode first season of Maron will feature a massive list of guest stars including Mark Duplass, Dave Foley, Jeff Garlin, Bobcat Goldthwait, Ken Jeong,...
To kick off the third annual Gilda’s Laughfest in Grand Rapids yesterday, organizers attempted to break the Guinness world record for – wait for it – the largest gathering of people wearing fake mustaches. And while the folks at Guinness will need to certify those efforts,...
The second episode of The Ben Show with Ben Hoffman goes down tonight at 10 pm EST on Comedy Central. And before I go any further, let me just say you should check it out. If you missed the first episode, you can watch the entire thing here. It’s hard to describe the show...
Last weekend news broke that Jimmy Fallon would replace Jay Leno in 2014 as host of The Tonight Show and that NBC would make the announcement as early as May. Although the network denied the story in the Hollywood Reporter, who cited “two high-level industry insiders” and...
Valerie Harper, who, along with Mary Tyler Moore, helped usher in an era of female-led television sitcoms, has been diagnosed with terminal brain cancer and has as little as three months to live, according to a new cover story in People. “A battery of tests revealed she has...
