Watching Phil Hartman’s audition tape for Saturday Night Live is such a bittersweet experience. Mostly sweet. To know that you don’t have to be a kid to get your big break in show business — Hartman was 38 when...
Read MoreFor those of you who do not live in New York City, let me just preface this by saying that we first got introduced to Sal Lupo at comedy shows by learning he was a cab driver from the Canarsie neighborhood in Brooklyn. Turns out...
Read MoreAre you going to the 2009 SXSW festival in Austin, Texas, next month? I know these comedians will be, because they're all listed on the festival site as performers mingling among the thousands of fans and musicians, with...
Read MoreMaybe Kate Winslet should have thanked Ricky Gervais more on Oscar night when she accepted her Academy Award for playing a hot illiterate Nazi in The Reader. After all, Gervais had given her the funny lines to say a couple of...
Read MoreAndy Richter and Conan O'Brien once again will be side-by-side launching a late-night talk show, as NBC announced today that Richter will serve as the announcer and also sketch comedy player for The Tonight Show with Conan...
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