Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Cancellations, Reality-Free This show went off the radar awhile back and left less traces of its existence than Amelia Earhart. But earlier today it came back, only to be blown out of the water. David Alan Grier's African-American news satire Chocolate News officiall...

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Industry, Pickups and Renewals, Reality-Free Once again, people, I'm forced to asked the question, what the hell is going on here? Has black become white? Has up replaced down? Has Rush Limbaugh been saying he wishes Barack Obama all the best, while Janeane Garofalo ...

Filed under: South Park, Cancellations, Software, Reality-Free Everybody knows an iPhone user who flaunts his phone to the world the way anyone of us would if we owned something that we believed contained the awesome power of God. They are always checking their emails or giving you weather updates y...

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Pickups and Renewals One of your television's least-appreciated funnymen is getting a second wind on cable again. The Upright Citizens Brigade's Matt Walsh and fellow founding member Trotter, er, Ian Roberts have landed their first starring roles in a show he created...

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Early Looks, Reality-Free If you've been watching Comedy Central, you may have noticed one of the roughly several thousand ads for the new show, Important Things with Demetri Martin. We also gave you a glimpse of it last week. All the hype can sometimes be a sign of ...

Filed under: News, Interviews, South Park, Reality-Free Matt Stone and Trey Parker are the modern day equivalent of a young Orson Welles arriving fresh off the boat to Hollywood, only with a lot less farting and jokes about having an ass the size of a mid-sized sedan. That part of Welles' life doesn...

Filed under: OpEd, The Daily Show, Watercooler Talk, Reality-Free When the folks at The Daily Show announced that they were going to do a live broadcast from Washington on Inauguration Day, I'm sure a lot of people envisioned Jon Stewart behind a desk in some D.C.-area college auditorium, with up-to...

Filed under: Other Comedy Shows, Programming, Music and Variety, Celebrities, Reality-Free Comedy Central's roasts were one of the few things the network used to do right post-South Park. They didn't go for the big names. They went for the funniest names, the people who lended themselves to the kind...

Filed under: Industry, MHD, Cable Time Warner Cable CEO & President Glenn Britt says don't blame him, blame sliding advertising and falling ratings for Viacom's lost revenue and subsequent Scrooge-style "extortion" of TWC customers to keep MTV Networks on after the ball drops tonight. Beyond the...

Filed under: OpEd, Animation, South Park, Reality-Free Thanksgiving isn't just about completing your Seven Deadly Sins check list before the year runs out. Thanksgiving is about family; learning where they've been, where you are, and where everyone in your life is going. Food and football are just g...