Bill Maher News

Marking its 12th year, the New York Comedy Festival (NYCF), presented in association with Comedy Central, announced its 2015 line-up today.  Expanding to six days and running from November 10 -15, the festival will feature some of comedy's biggest stars performing in New York City's most prestigious venues, including the Beacon Theatre, Brooklyn Academy of Music (BAM), Carnegie Hall, Carolines on Broadway, Madison Square Garden, The Theater at MSG, Town Hall and the 92nd Street Y.

AMY SCHUMER: LIVE FROM THE APOLLO, featuring the comedy star in her first HBO stand-up special, debuts SATURDAY, OCT. 17 (10:00-11:00 p.m.ET/PT).

Arj Barker is an American stand-up comedian who is developing a huge following in Europe, Australia, New Zealand and all over the world. He is best known as 'Dave' in the hit HBO sitcom Flight of the Concords. He is also co-creator of the hit off-Broadway show the Marijuana-logues, a parody of the Vagina Monologues.

Marc Maron will be performing live at Boulder Theater tonight, July 24 at 8:00 p.m. and at Paramount Theatre tomorrow, July 25 at 8:00 p.m. 

Craig Robinson, born and raised in Chicago, is an American actor, stand-up comedian and singer.  Arguably best known for his role as acerbic Dunder-Mifflin employee “Darryl Philbin” on NBC's Emmy-winning series The Office, he has also starred in films such as Knocked Up, Pineapple Express, the Hot Tub Time Machine series and This is the End.

ImprovBoston's newest seasonal special, Screen Time: Summer of Screens, premiering tonight, combines improvisational comedy with pop culture video clips for a hilarious multimedia experience. Using the best summer-themed movie, TV clips, music videos, and commercials from decades past, Boston's top improvisers create on-the-spot comedy that explores the weird, funny, and surprising connections between distant corners of warm-weather pop culture.

HBO received 126 Primetime Emmy® nominations, the most of any network for the 15th year in a row, for the upcoming 67th Primetime Emmy Awards®, which were announced today in Los Angeles.

VICE Media is proud to announce it has been nominated for an Emmy Award for its HBO series, VICE, in the category of Outstanding Informational Series or Special. VICE won last year's Emmy award for Outstanding Informational Series or Special.

ImprovBoston's newest seasonal special, Screen Time: Summer of Screens, combines improvisational comedy with pop culture video clips for a hilarious multimedia experience.

HBO programming continues trending up as audiences for some of HBO's biggest shows hit record numbers in the beginning of 2015

KINKY BOOTS book writer and Broadway star Harvey Fierstein penned a guest column for The Hollywood Reporter following today's Supreme Court decision on same-sex marriage. He credits the arts for introducing society to the values and ideas that made this morning's ruling possible.

Good morning, BroadwayWorld! Because we know all our readers eat, sleep and breathe Broadway, what could be better than waking up to it? Today's big news: After Friday's landmark Supreme Court ruling on gay marriage, the Broadway community -- and supporters across the country -- exploded with love and celebration. Today is the day for NYC to go even wilder in support of LGBTQ rights, so scroll down for BWW's list of Pride-related events, parties and more!

World-famous astrophysicist, award-winning author, and host of FOX's Cosmos NEIL DEGRASSE TYSON helps kick off the Long Center's 2015-2016 season with An Evening with Neil deGrasse Tyson, tonight, June 18th in Dell Hall.

Chester Theatre Company will open its 26th season at the Town Hall in Chester, MA with the East Coast premiere of THE GOSPEL ACCORDING TO THOMAS JEFFERSON, CHARLES DICKENS AND COUNT LEO TOLSTOY: DISCORD. This comedy of ideas, from Scott Carter, the Executive Producer of Real Time with Bill Maher, will run from June 24 through July 5.

On the next episode of Crackle's COMEDIANS IN CARS GETTING COFFE, Jerry Seinfeld will reunite with his 'Seinfeld' co-star Julia Louis Dreyfuss. 

Riding along this season will be Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Jim Carrey, Steve Harvey, Stephen Colbert, Bill Maher and Trevor Noah.

The Bullpen, a one-man, 18-character comedy, will travel upstate next Thursday, March 26th for two (2) performances at Otisville Correctional Institution, where actor/writer Joe Assadourian served 12 years of a 25 year sentence for attempted murder.