4+ day, 9+ hour ago   (386+ words) EXCLUSIVE: Drunk History is emerging from a long, inebriated slumber: Comedy Central has announced that its Emmy-winning educational comedy series from Derek Waters and Jeremy Konner is set to return this fall with three brand-new short-form episodes, marking the series…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (378+ words) The best and the worst thing about being alive is that you never completely know what any given day will bring. Let’s take, for example, April 6, 2023. I was having kind of an average day worrying about Ukraine, and Israel/Gaza,…...

3+ week, 2+ day ago   (373+ words) Late Night with Seth Meyers has been on a rather long summer hiatus but its host didn’t want to miss out on the news. Meyers and Sal Gentile, who writes the popular A Closer Look segment, have teamed up during…...

4+ week, 2+ day ago   (130+ words) David Letterman will be back on Netflix later this year with a new round of guests. His Netflix talk show, My Next Guest Needs No Introduction, returns before the end of the year with four new episodes. The former Late…...

1+ mon, 4+ week ago   (434+ words) Levity Live Taps Former Just For Laughs Exec Spencer Griffin As EVP Content & Creative Strategy Deadline Services to share this page. EXCLUSIVE: Spencer Griffin has joined Levity Live in the newly created role of Executive Vice President, Content & Creative Strategy....

2+ mon, 6+ day ago   (314+ words) For most comics, a special represents an ending — the culmination of a creative chapter. Not so for Josh Johnson, at least with his first HBO special Symphony, which he says marks a new beginning — “a change and a new direction…...

2+ mon, 3+ week ago   (1446+ words) EXCLUSIVE: A lot has changed in late-night, in the media and in America in the 12 years since Jay Leno stopped being the host of The Tonight Show. For one thing, there is a new king of late-night, but he isn’t…...

3+ mon, 4+ day ago   (571+ words) In just over a week, Julian Shapiro-Barnum is launching Outside Tonight, a late-night show that shares DNA with the likes of The Tonight Show, except it won’t be airing anywhere near broadcast television. Shapiro-Barnum’s show premieres on June 17 on YouTube....

3+ mon, 1+ week ago   (472+ words) For Rob Burnett, who worked alongside David Letterman for nearly three decades — including at The Late Show, from its inception — the May 21st conclusion of the late-night franchise stirred significant emotion. “I found myself being strangely emotional on Stephen [Colbert]’s…...

3+ mon, 2+ week ago   (385+ words) With late night at a crossroads, Ben Gleib is forging a new path. Just a week after the permanent shuttering of The Late Show — the CBS franchise hosted for the last 11 years by Stephen Colbert — Gleib is poised to launch…...