Great news for comedian Jerrod Carmichael for word on the street is that NBC will be in business with the young LA comic to develop a sitcom. The network ordered a presentation for a project created by and starring Carmichael that will be loosely based on Charmichael’s life and comedy. Carmich... [Read More]

by WitStream Jacob Sager Weinstein How could anybody whose name fits the music for "Hava Nagilah" so perfectly be an anti-Semite? Michelle Wolf Michelle Obama has a law degree from Harvard, but... [Read More]

by Bradford Evans Last month, NBC ordered 12 episodes of a new comedy starring Andrea Martin called Working the Engels for the 2014-15 TV season, and now, a couple of her SCTV costars will be turning up in guest spots. TV Line reports that Martin Short and Eugene Levy will both be guest starring on ... [Read More]

by Bradford Evans Since The Pete Holmes Show debuted in October, they haven't had anyone do standup yet — until last night when Gabe Liedman became the show's first person to do standup. This was also the TV standup debut for Liedman, who co-stars in the web series Bestie X Bestie with Jenny ... [Read More]

by Bradford Evans Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz is preparing to direct his first movie. He's attached to direct a comedy called Guinea Pigging that The State/Reno 911! duo Tom Lennon and Ben Garant are going to script, THR reports. The film is based on a 2008 New Yorker article by Carl ... [Read More]

On the seventh day of Burgundy, Will Ferrell gave to me, a scotch toss game in his RV! The countdown to the much anticipated debut of Anchorman: The Legend Continues is getting closer, and it seems that all of pop-culture is overflowing with the antics of San Diego’s finest news team. Anchorma... [Read More]

by Halle Kiefer Joyeux Noel! What better way to commemorate the birth of an immortal god's child into the human realm than with some festive fart jokes?!?! Whether you believe that a supernatural deity impregnated a lady thousands of years ago in order to save humans from sin which he himself decid... [Read More]

Nick Kroll's sketch comedy character study and TV parody, Kroll Show, returns for a second season on Comedy Central on Jan. 14, 2014. But you can catch up on the best of season one as well as sneak peeks from season two tonight. And Kroll gave The Comic's Comic a tease, as well. What Kroll told us:&... [Read More]

by Bradford Evans NBC is working with standup Jerrod Carmichael to develop a new show. Deadline reports that the network has ordered a presentation (a short pilot) to be created by and star Carmichael. A semi-autobiographical comedy, the potential show would star Carmichael as an optimistic guy "who... [Read More]

by Larry Getlen I just released an e-book called Conversations with Carlin: An In-Depth Discussion with George Carlin about Life, Sex, Death, Drugs, Comedy, Words, and so much more, a novella-length transcript of a five-hour interview I conducted with comedy legend George Carlin in 2001. As the titl... [Read More]