Jim Gaffigan News

New Wave Entertainment today announced it will move Comedy Dynamics into a newly created full service entertainment entity, The Nacelle Company, LLC. Brian Volk-Weiss, the founder and president of Comedy Dynamics, has been elevated to CEO of the new company and will oversee all operations.

For the second year, in a strategic partnership with Just For Laughs, The CW Network today announced the brand new primetime comedy special, the HOWIE MANDEL ALL-STAR COMEDY GALA.

KATIE GOODMAN'S "MID-LIFE CRISIS" TOUR comes to Feinstein's/54 Below, Broadway's Supper Club, on Wednesday, January 18th at 7:00pm. Comedian and on-line celebrity, Katie Goodman, captivates her audience with her unique style of raw humor and gutsy original musical satire. An internationally touring musical comedienne, Goodman is known for providing an audience with an act that is political, personal, and wildly entertaining. Honed to a razor sharp edge, her recently released first solo album received enormous praise from Punchline Magazine, who put it best: "On par not just with any woman in modern comedy, not just with any music act in modern comedy but, categorically on par with anyone working the current comedy scene…" Katie has been seen on Showtime, Current TV and TruTV.

“The View” remembers Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., MONDAY, JANUARY 16 (11:00 a.m.-12:00p.m. EST). CNN political commentator Van Jones joins the co-hosts at the Hot Topics table to discuss race in America and his town hall, “The Messy Truth,” in which he traveled the country speaking to Americans with a wide range of political views. Then former white supremacist Arno Michaelis joins the co-hosts to share how he became an anti-hate activist. Michaelis is joined by co-founder of Serve2unite.org Pardeep Singh Kaleka, whose father was killed by a member of Michaelis former white supremacist group. Clay Aiken and Sunny Hostin also visit West High School in Iowa City to talk to students about the reported bullying following the election and the student-organized peaceful protests that followed. Students with opposing political views sit down to express their beliefs, differences and fears post-election.

Kicking off the new year with high-energy and laughs, SOPAC presents the renowned Stones tribute band, Satisfaction - The International Rolling Stones Show on January 13, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. and stand-up comedian Tom Papa on January 14, 2016 at 8:00 p.m.

Get the first last laugh at BPA's 1st Annual LAST COMEDY SHOW EVER. The event headlines four of the top touring comedians in the USA in performances spanning two nights at BPA.

Netflix, the world's leading Internet TV network, is bringing its members an all-new stand-up special from one of the leading forces in entertainment and comedy today, Amy Schumer.

'Cinco' captures Gaffigan's recent 'Fully Dressed Tour,' which included a sold-out performance at The Madison Square Garden Arena in New York, and smashed a Salt Lake City record with 29,000 tickets sold.

Award winning theatre director and veteran TV writer/producer, Stan Zimmerman, has been set to direct the World Premiere of Paul Shoulberg's play 'Synthesis'. The four character ensemble piece will have a limited run of 12 performances.

Comedy Dynamics will release Janeane Garofalo's If I May on January 6, 2017 on iTunes, Google Play, Spotify, Amazon and all other digital retailers. The special originally debuted on Seeso on October 27, 2016.

Award winning theatre director and veteran TV writer/producer, Stan Zimmerman, has been set to direct the World Premiere of Paul Shoulberg's play 'Synthesis'. The four character ensemble piece will have a limited run of 12 performances.

Lynne Meadow (Artistic Director) and Barry Grove (Executive Producer) have announced full casting for Manhattan Theatre Club's American premiere of Linda, a new play by Penelope Skinner (The Ruins of Civilization at MTC, The Village Bike) directed by MTC's award-winning Artistic Director Lynne Meadow (The Assembled Parties, Wit).

Kicking off the new year with high-energy and laughs, SOPAC presents the renowned Stones tribute band, Satisfaction - The International Rolling Stones Show on January 13, 2016 at 8:00 p.m. and stand-up comedian Tom Papa on January 14, 2016 at 8:00 p.m.

FARGO has added to the cast of its third installment, with David Thewlis, Michael Stulhbarg and Jim Gaffigan among those who have joined previously announced stars Ewan McGregor, Carrie Coon and Mary Elizabeth Winstead. Production is set to begin in Calgary in January for a 2017 premiere.

Get the first last laugh at BPA's 1st Annual LAST COMEDY SHOW EVER. The event headlines four of the top touring comedians in the USA in performances spanning two nights at BPA.

Your favorite stars of stage and screen are about to morph into rock & roll gods. The lineup is announced for Comedy Central's THE COMEDY JAM.

Playwrights Horizons has announced complete casting for THE LIGHT YEARS, the world premiere of a new play written by Drama Desk Award winner Hannah Bos (The Open House, Jacuzzi, Blood Play, Buddy Cop 2) and Obie Award winner Paul Thureen (Jacuzzi, Blood Play, Buddy Cop 2), directed and developed by Obie Award winner Oliver Butler (Jacuzzi, The Open House, Blood Play), made by The Debate Society.

For the second year, in a strategic partnership with Just For Laughs, The CW Network today announced the brand new primetime comedy special, the HOWIE MANDEL ALL-STAR COMEDY GALA.

JFL NorthWest, taking place in 2017 from February 16 to 25 and presented in association with SiriusXM, has added a second show for comedian Chris D'Elia at the Vogue Theatre on Friday, February 24.