Comedy goddess of all comedy goddesses Tina Fey has given birth to her second child, another daughter! Fey, 41, and her husband of 10 years, Jeffrey Richmond, welcomed Penelope Athena on Wednesday; the little peanut joins big sister Alice Zenobia, who turns six on Sept. 10. You...
If all goes according to plan, multi-faceted comedian Demetri Martin will join a long, successful tradition of animated comedy at Fox, which boasts The Simpsons, Family Guy and most recently Bob's Burgers. According to Deadline, Martin is finalizing a deal with the network,...
Even with the Sept. 22 premiere of Whitney fast approaching, execs at NBC are shuffling around castmembers on comedian Whitney Cummings' network star vehicle. And this time, it’s a big one. Former Malcolm in the Middle star Jane Kaczmarek has been tapped to play Whitney’s...
Veteran comedian, writer and Curb Your Enthusiasm executive producer Jeff Garlin has struck a television deal with ABC. According to the Hollywood Reporter, Garlin snagged a "script deal to write, executive produce and star in an untitled half-hour comedy." Bruce McCulloch, of...
A big screen animated feature version of Hanna-Barbera's 1974 TV series Hong Kong Phooey has been green-lit with Eddie Murphy voicing the protagonist hero. It's totally understandable that movie execs have been inspired by the piles of money the Smurfs movie is racking up, but...
TBS announced yesterday that they would not be renewing George Lopez’s late night talk show Lopez Tonight. And tonight’s show – would be the last one. Not a whole lot of time. Lopez’s monologue last night was markedly more subdued than we’ve come to expect from the...
Inspired by the fake trailers sprinkled into 2008's Tropic Thunder, Ben Stiller is set to launch The Fake Trailer Project-- essentially a series of 12 trailer parodies offered as a new Web series. The trailers will be unveiled one week at a time beginning in late fall or early...
If you're thinking to yourself, hey, the first part of that headline is old, we don't blame you. For the third time, Comedy Central has chosen Family Guy creator and proven wise ass Seth MacFarlane to host one of the network's always-highly-rated roasts, according to EW.com....
For the past few weeks, old-school Roseanne fans have enjoyed seeing one of contemporary comedy's blue-collar sitcom heroes bare her life in the Lifetime reality series Roseanne's Nuts. But if all goes according to her plan, we'll be soon watching Roseanne Barr doing more than...
