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Chicago comedian Lil’ Rel premieres comedy special on Comedy Central June 7, 2013 *“I knew at probably about nine or 10 years-old when I watched ‘In Living Color’…it was so funny,” said Chicago native Lil’ Rel (pronounced Rail) Howery about his venture into comedy. “People forget ‘In Living Color’ was the first sketch comedy with [...]
*Comedy Central has inked a wide-ranging, multiplatform development deal with comedian Hannibal Buress, which includes a pilot commitment (Buress will exec produce and star), a recurring role on upcoming scripted comedy “Broad City,” a one-hour stand-up special and a nationwide tour, reports Deadline.com. “It’s a bunch of things that I like to do, and they [...]
*Keegan Michael Key of Comedy Central’s “Key and Peele” will join Brad Morris in USA Network’s untitled comedy pilot starring Lennon Parham and Jessica St. Clair, The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The single-camera, semi-autobiographical comedy revolves around a single parent, Maggie (Parham), who asks her single and career-minded best friend Emma (St. Clair) to raise [...]
*Actor-writer-comedian Larry Wilmore, currently the “senior black correspondent” for Comedy Central’s “The Daily Show,” has booked a series regular role on the NBC comedy pilot “Joe, Joe and Jane,” The Hollywood Reporter has learned. The semi-autobiographical multicamera comedy, from “New Girl” producers Joe Port and Joe Wiseman centers on Joe Waxman, a conflict-avoidant children’s book [...]
*Wyatt Cenac is saying farewell to “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart,” E! News reports. The comedian has worked as a correspondent and writer on the show since 2008. He’ll remain on the series through 2012, with his final episode airing Thursday, Dec. 13. “Jon and the staff wish him the best in his [...]
*Hours before he tossed zingers at his foe Mitt Romney Thursday night at the Alfred E. Smith Memorial Dinner, President Barack Obama tackled such issues as Libya and his “off night” at the first presidential debate during a trip to “The Daily Show with Jon Stewart.” [Scroll down to watch.] [SUBSCRIBE TO EURWEB's RSS FEED] [...]
*If you’re a fan of South Park, Key and Peele, and/or Mob Wives AND you’re a DirecTV subscriber our hearts go out to you. It must have been a total shock to you when you no longer had access to your favorite shows last night. MTV, VH1, Comedy Central, and Nickelodeon were all lost Tuesday [...]
*Two days after breaking a sweat on NBC’s “The Biggest Loser,” Michelle Obama made her second appearance Wednesday on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” and her first as a First Lady. “The first time you were on my show, you were not the First Lady; now, you are,” host Stephen Colbert told her at the [...]
*First Lady Michelle Obama will visit Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report” on Wednesday, April 11 at 11:30 p.m. ET/PT. It’ll be her second appearance overall, but her first since entering the White House. FLOTUS will mark the one-year anniversary of her Joining Forces initiative to recognize, honor and support veterans and military families. The initiative [...]
*It’s only been on the air two weeks, but Comedy Central has seen enough to renew the sketch comedy series “Key & Peele” for a 10-episode second season, which will premiere this fall, reports Deadline.com. “Because Key & Peele has been so immediately and universally well received, I was worried if we didn’t give the [...]
*Comedy Central hopes its viewers are ready for some “biracial humor” via the new sketch comedy series, “Key & Peele,” starring biracial comics Keegan Michael Key and Jordan Peele. The show, premiering tonight (Jan. 31) at 10:30 p.m., draws humor from their own experiences growing up as the offspring of both black and white parents [...]
*Stand-up comedian Patrice O’Neal died on Tuesday at the age of 41 following a stroke last month, his agent said. “It is with terrible sadness we must report that Patrice O’Neal has passed away this morning…due to the complications of the stroke he suffered on October 19,” O’Neal’s agent Matt Frost said in a statement, [...]
*The budding comedy film series, “Harold & Kumar” might be getting picked up by Comedy Central and/or MTV pretty soon as an animated series. Just after releasing the latest installment, “A Very Harold & Kumar Christmas,” several cable networks are looking to pick up the small screen project, says Lionsgate TV. Once the series takes [...]
*Another Donald Trump feud has started. As previously reported, The Donald thinks Comedy Central’s Jon Stewart should be taken off the air “for a while” because of a so-called impression he did of Herman Cain on Tuesday night’s “The Daily Show.” Stewart spoke in Cain’s voice as a continuation of Cain’s response when asked if [...]
*He’s Baaack. Donald Trump has taken to YouTube to complain about Jon Stewart’s “Daily Show” routine about Herman Cain’s sexual harassment accusations, accusing Stewart of a “very, very racist rant” — and critics of a double standard, reports Reuters. “How come Jon Stewart gets away with a very, very racist rant about Herman Cain? Nobody [...]
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