Browsing: Comedy

For the first time, the New York Comedy Festival (NYCF) will present Variety’s 10 Comics to Watch, bringing the annual industry spotlight on emerging comedic talent…

“Rooster” achieved HBO‘s most-watched debut season for a comedy series in more than 15 years, according to Warner Bros. Discovery. The only HBO comedies to outperform…

When you hear the phrase “body-swap comedy,” you tend to think of complications. A good entry in the genre, like “13 Going on 30” or “All…

Vietnam’s Mockingbird Pictures is heading to the Beijing International Film Festival with “A ‘Good’ Best Luck,” a dark comedy drama drawing on local spiritual folk traditions.…

Louis C.K. is doing a new deal with Netflix. The 58-year-old comedian will headline a show as part of the streamer’s Netflix Is A Joke Festival…

Paul Rudd and Nick Jonas rocked SXSW with “Power Ballad,” the latest music-themed comedy film from “Once” and “Sing Street” director John Carney. The movie follows…

Lee Einhorn remembers the day he officially met his soulmate. He’d been hired at the prominent ad agency Publicis & Hal Riney in 2003, working out…

Katherine, a licensed clinical social worker, died at the age of 42 Following news of the tragic death of Martin Short‘s daughter, Katherine Elizabeth Short, the…

Mia Challis has joined the CBS multi-cam comedy pilot “Regency,” Variety has learned. Challis joins previously announced cast member Rhys Darby in the pilot, which originally…

On the face of it, for a comfortable middle-class couple in Lithuania, getting divorced has absolutely nothing to do with the war in Ukraine. Why would…