Next time you’re in NYC (or, if you already live there), you can take a tour of Broad City’s NYC where Abbi and Ilana drum on buckets or mysterious islands, etc. thanks to a map that Abbi Jacobson herself has drawn up.
Whether it’s too scale or not is something we’ll leave you to figure out.
Rather than redefining the entire DNA of the series in order to keep the show going, Nick Kroll is making the upcoming third season of Kroll Show the final one. Kroll explained in detail to Vulture why he’s ending the show rather than, like most shows in the U.S., to go for six seasons or more.
You can also watch Kroll’s Show’s Liz G. comment “solemnly” on the matter.
Season 3 premieres around Jan. 13th on Comedy Central, but you can get a sneak peek tonight at 10:30PM.
(TUES) a sneak peek of #KROLLSHOW season 3 at 1030/930c! Ps Bobby B selfie w/ zero irony! pic.twitter.com/2lGsGCY6Vp
— nick kroll (@nickkroll)
First off, Nikki Glaser is doing a talk show pilot for Comedy Central. Take a moment to be glad that someone had the sense to make sure Nikki had a chance for another show after Nikki and Sara Live got the ax at MTV.
The pilot is entitled #NSFW w/Nikki Glaser and will have, appropriate of the title, Nikki discuss and explore the topic of sex, which, if you know her comedy, should be a lot of fun.
You can actually preview the pilot at Nerdmelt over the next two weeks before Nikki does an official taping for Comedy Central, which we highly recommend going to if you’re in LA for the first two weeks of December.
Tues. Dec. 2nd and Thurs. Dec. 11th both at 7PM are your two chances for previews. They’re free to attend with RSVP, so, again, please go if you can.
Nathan For You’s Nathan Fielder did his part for Comedy Central’s Non-Denominational Christmas Special that premiered last night by singing a duet with international film star Marion Cotillard.
It’s pretty much everything you’d want a duet between Nathan and someone like Cotillard to be like.
Watch it here and catch repeats of The Non-Denominational Christmas Special tonight, Sat., and Sun. at 10PM on Comedy Central.
Don’t want any specific religion in your Christmas, one of the most religion based holidays out there, special?
Comedy Central has got you covered with their All-Star Non Denominational Christmas Special featuring the likes of Key & Peele, Kroll Show, Andy Daly, Broad City, Larry Wilmore, Stephen Colbert, and way more.
It premieres tonight at 10PM and repeats at the same time on Fri., Sat., and Sun. this Thanksgiving weekend.
Want to see a shady looking Cuba Gooding Jr. yell at two “upcoming” filmmakers on a boat in Florida? Of course you do. That’s only one of the crazy things you’ll see in the teaser for Comedy Central’s latest series “Big Time in Hollywood, FL”.
From the minds of Dan Schimpf and Alex Anfanger, Big Time in Hollywood, FL follows two fledgling moviemakers that get in way too deep to something that did not expect that seems to involve getting caught up in a crime ring, Michael Madsen, a monkey, and more.
Watch the teaser and see it all here.
It would be a little premature to say that there’s writing on the wall, but comedy definitely seems like it is playing second fiddle (or almost no fiddle at all) to hour long dramas at NBC, ABC, CBS, and Fox. Comedy is currently flourishing on cable and online and, perhaps, that is where episodic comedy, wholly, is headed.
This TV season alone, freshman comedies Selfie, A to Z, Manhattan Love Story, and Bad Judge have been canceled along with relative new comers The Millers.
Community, Arrested Development, and now The Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt, which had a series order from NBC but didn’t even make it to air, have moved from TV networks to online streaming services.
Just yesterday, it was announced ABC also scrapped a sitcom they had already ordered to series, Members Only starring John Stamos.
Bloggers and John Mulaney alike keep talking about whether Mulaney will last on Fox. On top of all of that, there are rumors that NBC has halted production on Last Comic Standing after it already had brought it back from the dead.
We’re not saying broadcast networks have drawn a hard line on in the sand (yet) prohibiting comedy from their airwaves. Cristela, black-ish, and Brooklyn Nine-Nine have found success just starting out and the networks have a few comedy mainstays like Modern Family, The Big Bang Theory, and Two and Half Men. New Girl and The Mindy Project have also seemed to fared well in their tenure at Fox. Also, cable networks TBS and TNT have recently canceled Sullivan & Son and Franklin & Bash, respectively.
Still, this last couple of years have seen an unprecedented shift of the comedy genre as an aggregate on TV from going live on air to every household with a TV on a weeknight to niche cable networks and various online entities ranging anywhere from Netflix to YouTube to Amazon. Key & Peele, Louie, Portlandia, Veep, Transparent, and Children’s Hospital are all just a few perfect examples of this new paradigm.
The future for comedy on TV and the behemoths of television does have yet to be decided. The highly anticipated Last Man on Earth from Chris Miller and Phil Lord starring Will Forte is premiering next year. Networks, like CBS, are starting to get on board with their own streaming service.
What is clear in the current TV landscape, above all, is that the Internet isn’t going away and, because of that, viewers can watch whatever they want whenever they want to watch it. Thus, people will watch their favorite Key & Peele sketch as many as times as they can stand, binge watch The Simpsons via The Simpsons World app/site, consume as much media that exists online of their favorite comedians (i.e. web series, podcasts, stand-up clips, etc.), and do so at any time of any day in any place versus Thursdays at 8 at home,
In such an environment, it’s much harder than it used to be to launch a broad franchise sitcom that lasts 10 seasons and lives on in syndication, which has been the network TV model for comedy for decades. So, for now, as NBC chairman Bob Greenblatt poignantly remarked during Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt’s move to Netflix, “…we have a very drama-heavy midseason schedule.”
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
Comedy Central has announced its latest addition to their development slate, which is two live action/animated hybrid projects from Sean Donnelly (Note: not this Sean Donnelly) and Alessandro Minoli.
One, Jeff & Some Aliens, follows an average guy voiced by Brett Gelman whom aliens will base the fate of the entire human race. It was one of a series of animated shorts on TripTank, which aired on Comedy Central earlier this year. The other, The Amazing Danny, delves into “the mind of a lovable schlub in his mid-20s”.
If both go to series, it would be surprising if they didn’t have a series crossover.
The days of The Colbert Report are coming to a close and thus, it was inevitable that Jon Stewart would once again face his former employee Stephen Colbert on The Colbert Report.
It just took The Colbert Report ending and Jon to direct Rosewater to have this happen. Still, it’s always fun to see the two edges of the same side of the same coin go at it.
Watch parts one and two of Jon Stewart’s appearance on The Colbert Report here.
After “The Minority Report” has been renamed “The Nightly Show”, it has now gotten an official premiere date of Mon. Jan. 19th at 11:30PM following The Daily Show.
Thus, the changing of the late night guard in 2015 begins with Larry Wilmore in mid January, then James Corden following on The Late Late Show set for Mar. 9th, and then Stephen Colbert at The Late Show at a TBD date.
We reported recently that Key & Peele director Peter Atencio has wrapped his last season on the show. In the four seasons at the helm, Atencio says that this sketch might be one of his favorites out of everything he’s done on the show.
Just watch it and you might agree with him.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
In order to avoid “brand confusion”, Comedy Central’s replacement for The Colbert Report will no longer called The Minority Report with Larry Wilmore.
Rather, it will now be called The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, which is fitting in the sense that it’s following The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and preceding @midnight with Chris Hardwick,
The “brand confusion” supposedly refers to having the show be more about underdogs as opposed to just minorities. However, it also clears up any confusion it would have with Steven Spielberg’s Minority Report from 2002.
For this year’s New York Comedy Festival, Comedy Central featured in their “Comics To Watch” showcase some folks that we also think you ought to watch. Such comedians include Alex Edelman, Robert Dean, Jak Knight, Emmy Blotnick, Matt Ingebretson, Nate Fernald, and more.
You can watch the showcase taped live at Caroline’s in NYC right here.
Jon Stewart’s directorial debut with Rosewater opens today and, as you could imagine, he used last night’s episode of The Daily Show to promote it.
With that being the case, Stewart felt it would be tasteless to be also promoting while hosting. So, he was just in luck that one John Oliver, who has had filled in for him before, had just wrapped season one of Last Week Tonight at HBO and was free to fill in.
Watch Oliver sit once more at The Daily Show desk right here.
Many of you or, we’re willing to wager, all of you reading this right now probably have become big fans of the show Key & Peele on Comedy Central over their four seasons throughout the last couple of years.
As such, you’re more than acquainted with the shows titular stars Keegan Michael-Key and Jordan Peele, but you should also be familiar with and tip your hat to the show’s director Peter Atencio, who, atypical of almost every TV show in existence, directed every episode of Key & Peele.
Well, last night, Peter Atencio himself announced it was his final day on Key & Peele, which he has left his mark on indelibly. We have yet to hear what Atencio’s next projects are or who will step in for him in the future, but, for now, just go watch a bunch of Key & Peele sketches and appreciate his work.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
Yesterday, you might have heard that Comedy Central has gotten Amazon’s Sarah Babineau to come on board to develop original series on the East Coast.
That move might have something do with the fact that Comedy Central is now losing one of their own execs in Brooke Posch to Amy Poehler’s production company, Paper Kite Productions.
Posch has worked closely with Poehler at Comedy Central, specifically on Broad City and will no doubt help bring up similarly great things via Paper Kite.
(via The Hollywood Reporter)
For all the success that Amazon has been having with their original series as of late, Comedy Central has taken note. As such, they’ve cherry picked their development executive Sarah Babineau that has developed such series as Transparent and Alpha House and are bringing her talents to foster original series for them on the East Coast.
Comedy Central already has a fantastic line-up of programming and we can only imagine that they’re going to keep headed in that direction with this move.
We don’t need to ask if you need more Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer in your life because we know you do.
So, here’s is the brand new trailer for season 2 of Broad City that will get you giddy for Jan. 14th when the season premiere airs on Comedy Central.
Watch it over and over and over right now.
In promotion of his new book So, Anyway…, the legendary John Cleese sat down with Jon Stewart on The Daily Show and talked about the prospect of caring and how to give it up
All in all, it was delightful. Give it a watch here.
To fill your quota of new comedy albums this week, please pick up Cristela Alonzo’s “Some of the Hits” and Nick Vatterott’s “For Amusement Only” from Comedy Central Records.
If you don’t have a quota of comedy albums to fill, get one, and this week with these albums would be a good place to start.
(via Deadline)
Two weeks ago, Stephen Colbert announced that they were 32 episodes left of The Colbert Report. Unless we’re miscounting a pre-empted episode we forgot about, that means there are 24 more episodes at Comedy Central left as of the post being written.
More specifically though, The Colbert Report and the character Stephen Colbert plays on the show will retire on Dec. 18th in order to take over for Letterman next year. So, mark your calendars.
Hopefully, something involving a fight for power with Jon Stewart will be involved when that happens.
The confusion and rush of a midterm election can rival that one of a presidential one, you shouldn’t worry about what mudslinging ad campaign you’ll side on this year.
The Daily Show and The Colbert Report are set to air live on Nov. 4th, the fateful day of this latest midterm election to make, at the very least, you laugh and hopefully understand some of what’s happening along with a chat between Jon Stewart and Republican National Committee chairman Reince Priebus.
Also, the aptly titled “Democalypse 2014: America Remembers It Forgot to Vote” and “Midterms ‘014: Detour to Gridlock: An Exciting Thing That I Am Totally Interested In—Wait! Don’t Change the Channel. Look at this Video of a Duckling Following a Cat Dressed Like a Shark Riding a Roomba! ‘014!” should be enough to already make you feel good about the 4th that has no fireworks.
Comedy Central has been killing it on their channel as well as in the digital arena with CC:Studios, but they’ve got two albums line-up for release of their Comedy Central Records label that should make sure they’re doing quite well on that front well.
Come Nov. 4th, Cristela’s Cristela Alonzo will release “Some of the Hits” and the great Nick Vatterott will release “For Amusement Only”. Be sure to grab these up next Tues as we suspect that you won’t regret one bit.
Just because an apocalyptic event has happened and civilization and life as we know is falling apart at every turn doesn’t mean that people still get on each other’s nerves for the little things like what to bring to parties or how to go about getting rid of your stuff. It’s just that the end of the world has happened and that’s kind of hard to forget.
Good Cop Great Cop’s Matt Porter and Charlie Hankin delve into the post-apocalypse minutia in their brand new CC:Studios web series New Timers where they explore that exact premise beautifully.
Watch episodes one, two, and three now.
When John Mulaney released his great stand-up special New In Town, longtime friend and compatriot Dan Mintz interviewed him “Between Two Ferns” style.
So, it’s only appropriate that Mulaney would return the favor for Mintz with the release of Mintz’s brand new comedy album “The Stranger”.
Watch 6 or so glorious minutes of friends ripping each other part over at The A.V. Club.