The peacock network is making a lot of moves with it's comedy programming for the next television season. The biggest being giving the struggling shows on its Thursday night lineup short season re-orders which are allowing allowing many of them to finish their series runs instead of abruptly being cancelled (respect). While at the same time freeing up money so ...
After covering the first annual Comedy Awards last year in 2011, I looked forward to covering this year’s as well. I knew it would be exciting, and it was.
Exec Produced by legendary producer Don Mischer, directed by Beth McCarthy-Miller, and with a 32 member Board of Directors that included Brad Grey, Adam McKay, James Dixon, Jon Stewart, Sandy Wernick, ...
The comedy community has has spoken and we now have the nominees for the 2012 Comedy Awards.
Many of the names aren't much of a surprise as some of the biggest players in TV and film pulled in noms including Modern Family, Louie, 30 Rock, Parks & Recreation, Bridesmaids, and The Artist. There's also a few new categories ...
by Matt on January 27, 2012
If you missed the opening of the second episode of 30 Rock last night, you missed yourself one of the best spoofs we've seen in a long time as they performed a send-up of all those terrible mega ensemble films that revolve around a holiday.
But since all the good holidays already have films, they've now moved to the "Monday" holidays. ...
by Matt on January 23, 2012
Tracy Morgan was rushed to the hospital after he collapsed yesterday at the 2012 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, UT. The 30 Rock star reportedly lost consciousness after attending Sunday’s Creative Coalition Spotlight Awards where he was being honored with the Spotlight Initiative Award.
Morgan collapsed after his speech and had to be rushed to the Park City Medical ...
by Matt on October 12, 2011
FOX seems to really be in the Jonah Hill business. Before they even premiered his new animated sitcom Allen Gregory they just inked a deal with Hill to be the co-creator/co-writer of a sitcom. And the other co-writer/star of said sitcom? The incredibly talented comedian Hannibal Buress
“From the first time I saw Hannibal perform, I started banging ...
by Matt on September 15, 2011
It's the best time of year...the return of television! As someone who's TiVo is considered part of the family (if it could cook, I'd marry it) it's time to set the season passes for the new comedies premiering. Here's our take on the new comedies premiering this fall season and our predictions on how we think they will fare.
The big comedy story of the last few days was about Tracy Morgan and homophobic remarks made during a recent stand-up appearance in Nashville, TN.
The story goes Morgan was on stage saying some not terribly funny or amusing things about the LGBT community, going as far to say he'd stab his own son if he found out he ...
