Two best friends, who are successful comedians that started one of the best stand-up shows in the country that got made into a TV series in its second season, should be pretty good at roasting each other, right?
That’s “exactly” what happened when The Meltdown hosts Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani roasted each other on stage.
Watch it here, then be sure to catch the latest episode of The Meltdown, tonight at 12:30AM.
Taylor Orci and Jared Nigro took their Broken People channel and got Comedy Central to get on board to produce an eponymous web series.
Per the title, they’re both broken people that showcase how broken they are in a way that’s stark and darkly comedic.
So, check out their first episode here.
Brett Gelman got to finally bring his Gelmania (w/Cyrus Ghahremani) experience to this season of The Meltdown with Jonah & Kumail as well as the rest of the world.
Watch why you should absolutely keep the laughter and applause infinitely going for him in his Meltdown set here.
Mark down Aug. 8th on your calendar.
Randy Liedtke, a rare type of comedian these days who manages to toe the line between smart and silly, is recording his debut album at The Nerdmelt Showroom for Comedy Central Records. Its release will also coincide with his half hour special premiering later this year.
We’re guessing you probably weren’t in Boston earlier this year to catch Randy tape that special. So, get in on attending the taping on Aug. 8th, which is free so long as you RSVP.
Get your tickets for either the 7PM or 9PM show now.
Comedy Central received 26 Primetime Emmy nominations as a network, 9 went to Louis C.K. for his show Louie/hosting SNL/his own stand-up special and Veep, and 7 went to both Silicon Valley and Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt.
Actually, Veep, SNL, Inside Amy Schumer, Silicon Valley, Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, Key & Peele, The Late Show with David Letterman, Louie, The Big Bang Theory, Modern Family, The Simpsons, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show, Last Man on Earth, and Last Week Tonight got more than four nominations each.
As far as networks go, Comedy Central racked its 25 Emmys between it plethora of acclaimed series including Inside Amy Schumer, Key & Peele, The Daily Show, @midnight with Chris Hardwick, South Park, Drunk History and The Colbert Report.
Cartoon Network got 4 nominations, Adult Swim received 3, and Funny or Die, IFC, and LouisCK.net all received 2.
Here are the individual nominees in the major categories:
Outstanding Lead Actor In A Comedy Series
black-ish-Anthony Anderson
Episodes-Matt LeBlanc
House Of Lies-Don Cheadle
The Last Man On Earth-Will Forte
Louie-Louis C.K.
Shameless-William H. Macy
Transparent-Jeffrey Tambor
Outstanding Lead Actress In A Comedy Series
The Comeback-Lisa Kudrow
Grace And Frankie-Lily Tomlin
Inside Amy Schumer-Amy Schumer
Nurse Jackie-Edie Falco
Parks And Recreation-Amy Poehler
Veep-Julia Louis-Dreyfus
Outstanding Variety Talk Series
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Late Show With David Letterman
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Outstanding Comedy Series
Louie
Modern Family
Parks And Recreation
Silicon Valley
Transparent
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt
Veep
Outstanding Variety Sketch Series
Drunk History
Inside Amy Schumer
Key & Peele
Portlandia
Saturday Night Live
Outstanding Supporting Actor In A Comedy Series
Brooklyn Nine-Nine-Andre Braugher
Girls-Adam Driver
Key & Peele-Keegan-Michael Key
Modern Family-Ty Burrell
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt-Tituss Burgess
Veep-Tony Hale
Outstanding Supporting Actress In A Comedy Series
The Big Bang Theory-Mayim Bialik
Getting On-Niecy Nash
Modern Family-Julie Bowen
Mom-Allison Janney
Saturday Night Live-Kate McKinnon
Transparent-Gaby Hoffmann
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt-Jane Krakowski
Veep-Anna Chlumsky
Outstanding Guest Actor In A Comedy Series
The Comedians-Mel Brooks
Inside Amy Schumer-Paul Giamatti
Saturday Night Live-Bill Hader
Saturday Night Live-Louis C.K.
Transparent-Bradley Whitford
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt-Jon Hamm
Outstanding Guest Actress In A Comedy Series
The Big Bang Theory-Christine Baranski
Girls-Gaby Hoffmann
Louie-Pamela Adlon
Modern Family-Elizabeth Banks
Shameless-Joan Cusack
Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt-Tina Fey
Outstanding Writing For A Comedy Series
Episodes
The Last Man On Earth
Louie
Silicon Valley
Transparent
Veep
Outstanding Directing For A Comedy Series
The Last Man On Earth
Louie
Silicon Valley
Transparent
Veep
Outstanding Variety Special
Bill Maher: Live From D.C.
The Kennedy Center Honors
Louis C.K.: Live At The Comedy Store
Mel Brooks Live At The Geffen
The Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special
Outstanding Writing For A Variety Series
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Inside Amy Schumer
Key & Peele
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Outstanding Writing For A Variety Special
The 72nd Annual Golden Globe Awards
Key & Peele Super Bowl Special
Louis C.K.: Live At The Comedy Store
Mel Brooks Live At The Geffen
The Saturday Night Live 40th Anniversary Special
Outstanding Directing For A Variety Series
The Colbert Report
The Daily Show With Jon Stewart
Inside Amy Schumer
Late Show With David Letterman
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Outstanding Short-Format Live-Action Entertainment Program
Between Two Ferns With Zach Galifianakis
Billy On The Street
Childrens Hospital
Key & Peele Presents Van And Mike: The Ascension
Outstanding Interactive Program
@midnight With Chris Hardwick
Last Week Tonight With John Oliver
Saturday Night Live: SNL40
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Outstanding Animated Program
Archer
Bob’s Burgers
Over The Garden Wall
The Simpsons
South Park
Outstanding Short-Format Animated Program
Adventure Time
Disney Mickey Mouse
Regular Show
Robot Chicken
Steven Universe
Wander Over Yonder
Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance
Bob’s Burgers-John Roberts
Family Guy-Seth MacFarlane
Robot Chicken-Seth Green
The Simpsons-Dan Castellaneta
The Simpsons-Tress MacNeille
The Simpsons-Hank Azaria
Take a good long look at all of this note how this is a transitional period for comedy as the likes of Parks and Recreation, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and The Late Show with David Letterman have come to a close while Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Last Man on Earth signal the arrival of newcomers.
Get the full list of 2015 Primetime Emmy Nominees here.
If you think that making Drunk History on Comedy Central is a bunch of fun, series co-creators Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner as well as contributors Paget Brewster and Taran Killam assured everyone at a Comic-Con panel that indeed it really is a bunch of fun.
Watch the whole thing here moderated by none other than Paul F. Tompkins, who will be narrating a story for the next season.
Look for new episodes in September.
Simply put, Brent Weinbach is one of the most original, innovative, and hilarious comedians around.
You don’t have to take our word for it.
Just watch his full set from The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail.
It’s on at 10PM on TV Land tonight and tomorrow at 8PM on Comedy Central.
You’ve got two chances to catch the premiere of Jim Gaffigan’s titular series. Please don’t miss out.
FYI, every week it’ll be on 10PM on Wed. at TV Land and 8PM on Thurs. at Comedy Central.
Well, it turns out that the day after Comic-Con is just full of trailers.
Amidst Comedy Central’s very enticing slate of upcoming series, Moonbeam City has been one we’ve been waiting to premiere for quite some time.
Rob Lowe, Will Forte, Elizabeth Banks, and Kate Mara all voice the most gloriously rendered 80s sleuths, probably, of all time complimented by plenty of synth and neon.
Watch the trailer for Moonbeam City here, then look for its premiere on Sept. 16th at 10:30PM on Comedy Central.
More often than not, when you’re watching stand-up on TV, you’re seeing a very condensed version of what you would see live. That’s part of the reason watching comedy live is always better.
As a perfect example, watch the tour de force that is Hampton Yount do his full set from this season of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail.
Why? with Hannibal Buress premiered this week and in doing so Hannibal wanted to take care of a personal vendetta. A Twitter troll has been bugging him 24/7, so he decided to try to confront them in person.
When he did, he found their true identity was shocking. Actually, it was shocking to both parties.
Either way, it made for a great, silly bit of cross promotion for another Comedy Central show and an upcoming Judd Apatow movie. Watch it here.
You can also watch the entire first episode over at CC.com here.
Any chance you get to watch Sean Patton, you should absolutely take it.
So, from the latest episode of The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail, here’s an extended uncut Sean Patton set that really captures our advice above.
We’re not the betting types, but, if we were, we’d bet that this is probably the comedy special this year that will blindside you in the best way.
Boundary breaking singer and comedian Bridget Everett has her very first hour long comedy special premiering on Comedy Central this weekend.
Again, we urge you to watch Gynecological Wonder as soon as you can, which can be either on Sat. night at 12:30AM for the TV premiere or buying it on CC:Direct right now.
Season 1 of Review made Forrest MacNeil/Andy Daly almost lose everything. Family, friends, sense of self and purpose, and more seem to fall away one by one with each review that Forrest took on.
Yet, despite a temporary disappearance, MacNeil is back on to doing his duty for mankind by reviewing whatever is asked of him as evidenced in this trailer for season 2.
Apparently, such important duty involves having an arrow shot at an apple on his head, glory holes, prison, and more.
Please mark your calendars for the season 2 premiere of Review on July 30th at 10PM on Comedy Central.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
That translates to 23 seasons and well over 300 episodes of the now living legend that is South Park.
For now, Comedy Central has made good on South Park creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker’s desire to keep the show going as long as they can. They had two seasons to go under their current deal and just got three more ordered, which will roll out over the next 5 years.
Also, over the next 5 years, Hulu will get to stream all of South Park paying the hefty price tag of $192 million throughout that duration.
Off the top of our head, only The Simpsons and SNL have longer on-going runs as comedy series than South Park.
9PM The Spoils Before Dying mini-series premiere on IFC with back-to-back episodes
10PM Key and Peele season 5 premiere on Comedy Central
10:30PM Why? with Hannibal Buress series premiere on Comedy Central
We hope that this was already your plans for this evening. If not, and you had something, somehow blocked out for 9PM to 11PM tonight, we suggest adjusting your schedule accordingly.
Also, Conan: Live at Comic Con is at 11PM on TBS, so just make watching comedy on your TV the thing you do all night tonight.
Who knew that they would put your name on the graphics just for an audition?
Get a glimpse of what it might be like had Hannibal Buress taken the reins to The Daily Show instead of Trevor Noah in this “secret audition” that Buress did for the coveted host gig.
Though he won’t be showing up in a Comedy Central show in a suit and tie, we’re glad to see Hannibal show up in whatever the hell he wants on his own show, Why? with Hannibal Buress, premiering this Wed. at 10:30PM.
We may be older but by no means wiser, a third season of jokes and meaningless points ahead! pic.twitter.com/IMjV4NVOgD
@midnight with Chris Hardwick will be rounding off Comedy Central’s late night line-up for a good while to come.
Comedy Central has just renewed it for a third season, which means, later in the fall and through to next year, you’ll probably be watching The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, and @midnight with Chris Hardwick.
As celebrities seemingly live in higher level of the atmosphere than us regular folk, their expectations to smile are more demanding and much different than ours.
When posing for the red carpet, smiling takes on a whole new form of nitpicking.
For the record, we, and most in attendance, all like the jacket.
As they’re in their second season, Jonah Ray and Kumail Nanjiani upgraded their threads. Specifically, Kumail got a fancy mixed media jacket that he looks great in.
However, just looking good in a nice, new jacket isn’t enough for Kumail to feel comfortable. Watch it here.
Why? with Hannibal Buress premieres this week and just a few days ago, Hannibal chatted with Conan O’Brien about what fans, viewers, etc. have to look forward to with his new show as punctuated by his “shark week” promo.
Look forward to all of this, as we are, on the series premiere this Wed. Jul. 8th at 10:30PM on Comedy Central.
Amidst this golden age of television, John Mulaney gave us all some reasons that HBO’s The Jinx should win as many TV awards that it can for his set on The Meltdown with Jonah and Kumail.
Also, take not of there being a teenager in the crowd during his hilarious explanation.
Pick-up lines are pretty much a bad idea, especially these days when most people would prefer a pre-arranged social media based arrangement to meet rather than being talked to by strangers.
Comedy Central’s interactive web series CC:Social Scene sees how much of a disaster can come about with trying to say pick-up lines.
Spoiler alert: it gets pretty disastrous.
The phrase “our long national nightmare is finally over” seldom applies more than it does with the return of Review’s host Forrest MacNeil.
After running off the grid from the season 1 finale, the crew, Comedy Central, and the whole of the Internet joined together to find Forrest and now season 2 is safely under way and will be coming to your TV starting Thurs. July 30th at 10PM on Comedy Central.
Watch Forrest’s “press conference” announcing his return here.
In such a subtly perfect Key & Peele sketch, a town hall meeting marking the landmark of gay marriage bans being prohibited nationwide finds an audience camera focusing a lot on Jordan Peele.
It might just be a coincidence or an accident, but you should just see it for yourself.
Watch and enjoy here.