When Netflix approached comedian Tim Dillon about doing a comedy special timed to election season, he thought about a few options on how to approach it. He could make some run-of-the-mill stand-up ...

What is a TV “comedy” in 2023? In an era of blurred genres, it’s not so cut and dry anymore. Opening Variety’s “A Night in the Writer’s Room,” Variety’s Michael Schneider asked the nine comedy writers ...

While comedy films about death have been around for a long time, this decade has seen a significant rise in the number of ...

Deadline’s TV Talk podcast is back for another season taking listeners all the way to the 76th Emmy Awards ceremony September 15. Strap in. Hold on, we’re doing this again already? Yep. In this year ...

Prime Sports has announced a 12-episode order for Good Sports, an all-new weekly sports talk series hosted by comedy icons Kevin Hart and Kenan Thompson. Premiering November 25 exclusively on Prime ...

One unexpected effect the COVID-19 pandemic had on the comedy industry is the boom of diverse, inclusive and quality shows that fill up the calendar of L.A.’s comedy scene. That’s thanks in large part ...

Comedy is the subject today for this week’s edition of Deadline’s podcast, TV Talk. Deadline TV critic Dominic Patten and Awards Columnist and Chief Film Critic Pete Hammond take on the Emmy Awards ...

The world’s on fire — and John McIntire is here to make everyone laugh about it. Since 2007, McIntire has been hosting a comedy talk show with a panel of guests — often local political figures, ...

According to credible news reports, the following late-night comedy talk shows stopped live production on May 2, 2023, amid a strike initiated by WGA: "The Late Show ...

In August 2021, Fox News’ “Gutfeld!,” a late-night comedy-talk show hosted by right-wing pundit Greg Gutfeld, overtook “The Late Show with Stephen Colbert” in overall ratings. Surprised? We weren’t.

Max Manticof was just looking for new ways to entertain people when he came up with the initial concept of Street Talk. “I had some friends come with a camera; it’s actually kind of a wild story. We ...