Netflix is launching the first audio venture for its comedy content, Netflix Is A Joke Radio, in partnership with SiriusXM. The venture is the first collaboration for Netflix with another subscription service on a new offering.
The full-time comedy channel launches April 15 on Channel 93 on the satellite radio…
The up-and-coming young comics vehicle Coming To The Stage has been picked up for seasons 8-10 and will appear on Amazon, iTunes, Google Play, Dish, DirecTV, Comcast, and other locations, Comedy Dynamics said today.
The next episodes of the series will start production this spring, and Jamie Kennedy will host all…
UPDATED with reactions from Parkland students, parent: In a stand-up set that leaked online, disgraced comedian Louie C.K. delivered an extended riff about 20-somethings that included jabs at the survivors of the Parkland High School shooting and those who identify as gender non-binary.
The comedian, who left the…
Bob Smith, the first openly gay comedian to score an appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, has died at age 59 after a long struggle with ALS. His partner, Michael Zam, confirmed the death via a Facebook post.
Smith also was the first openly gay man to star in his own HBOComedy half-hour, which bowed in 1994…
As you might expect, Aziz Ansari was grateful for his victory in the Best Actor In A TV Series, Comedy category at the Golden Globes. “I genuinely didn’t think I would win, because all of the web sites said I was going to lose,” he joked on stage. “Losing two of these in a row – it would have been a moment for…
Here's a sobering thought (as if we needed one): Fox's action-comedy sequel Kingsman: The Golden Circle, opening Friday, could do as well as its 2015 predecessor and this still would be the worst year for live-action screen comedy since, possibly, ever.
As of this week, only one live-action comedy has cracked the…
Funny is money: NBC plans to launch a Web-based subscription comedy service this year, the network confirms. But much else about the initiative, disclosed by the Wall Street Journal, remains unclear — in part because it’s still in the early planning stage.
TheTonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon and SNLÂ likely would…
EXCLUSIVE:The Gersh Agency has hired four new agents as it grows its bi-coastal comedy department in New York and Los Angeles.
Moving over to Gersh after eight years at ICM Partners is William Rodriguez, who reps comedians DL Hughley, Charlie Murphy, Earthquake, Aries Spears, and Gary Owen and recently added Sinbad…
One of the last substantial interviews of Joan Rivers before her death today will be part of a documentary called Women in Comedy set to air Sept. 30 on PBS. The material, culled from interviews done for AOL’s MAKERS site, is also included in a terrific 5-minute video where Rivers reviews her career. That video…
In the 1970s, Columbia Pictures then-president Peter Guber was given a script for a film starring  Woody Allen. "I called my boss David Begelman and said, 'There has to be a mistake,' " Guber recalls. "There's not a laugh in it!" The film was The Front (1977), and it was a stark departure from Allen's comedy writing…
BREAKING: Alejandro González Iñárritu, the Mexican director whose films are about as serious and sad as anything I’ve seen from a world-class filmmaker, is about to lighten the tone and make us laugh with his next feature. Gonzalez Inarritu will next direct Birdman, a comedy he co-wrote with Nicolas Giacobone…
Ray Richmond is an AwardsLine contributorSUPPORTING COMEDY ACTORTY BURRELL (Modern Family, ABC)
Emmy Pedigree: It's Burrell's third straight nomination here for Family, and he's bidding for his second win in a row. He, like the rest of the cast, also took home a SAG Award the past two years as well as a TCA honor…
