Comedy Central and Jim Jefferies have entered into a first-look deal for content created and/or developed for television and digital media. The deal includes a pick-up of late night series The Jim Jefferies Show for a 20-episode third season.
The deal was announced by Sarah Babineau and Jonas Larsen, EVPs and co-heads of talent and development at Comedy Central.
The Jim Jefferies Show is a weekly, topical, late night series featuring the Australian comedian’s unapologetic, honest and international approach to culture and politics. Jefferies tackles the week’s top stories from behind the desk and travels the globe to far-off locations to provide unique looks at hypocrisy around the world.
“We love Jim’s unfiltered, insightful, hilarious and global comedic perspective on the insane world we’re living in right now,” said a statement from Babineau and Larsen. “We are excited for him to continue to connect with...
The deal was announced by Sarah Babineau and Jonas Larsen, EVPs and co-heads of talent and development at Comedy Central.
The Jim Jefferies Show is a weekly, topical, late night series featuring the Australian comedian’s unapologetic, honest and international approach to culture and politics. Jefferies tackles the week’s top stories from behind the desk and travels the globe to far-off locations to provide unique looks at hypocrisy around the world.
“We love Jim’s unfiltered, insightful, hilarious and global comedic perspective on the insane world we’re living in right now,” said a statement from Babineau and Larsen. “We are excited for him to continue to connect with...
- 2/1/2019
- by Bruce Haring
- Deadline Film + TV
On Saturday, November 3, the International Myeloma Foundation (Imf), the first and largest myeloma-specific foundation in the world, presented its 12th Annual Comedy Celebration benefiting the Peter Boyle Research Fund and supporting the Black Swan Research Initiative (Bsri) at The Wilshire Ebell Theatre in Los Angeles, CA.
Gabriel Iglesias, Sasheer Zamata, Jim Jefferies, Kevin Nealon, Natasha Leggero, Cristela Alonzo and Chaunté Wayans
Credit/Copyright: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for International Myeloma Foundation
Actor and comedian Kevin Nealon hosted an unforgettable evening of laughs featuring some of the biggest names in comedy to raise money for research to find a cure for multiple myeloma, cancer of the bone marrow plasma cells, and one of the fastest growing blood cancers in the world. Nealon took over the hosting duties from Ray Romano, and shared it was an important cause for him to support as his mother has multiple myeloma. At the event he said,...
Gabriel Iglesias, Sasheer Zamata, Jim Jefferies, Kevin Nealon, Natasha Leggero, Cristela Alonzo and Chaunté Wayans
Credit/Copyright: Alberto E. Rodriguez/Getty Images for International Myeloma Foundation
Actor and comedian Kevin Nealon hosted an unforgettable evening of laughs featuring some of the biggest names in comedy to raise money for research to find a cure for multiple myeloma, cancer of the bone marrow plasma cells, and one of the fastest growing blood cancers in the world. Nealon took over the hosting duties from Ray Romano, and shared it was an important cause for him to support as his mother has multiple myeloma. At the event he said,...
- 11/8/2018
- Look to the Stars
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