The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedy Gives Back will produce a 24-hour international digital telethon next month — with comedians such as Kevin Nealon, Dane Cook and Adam Devine seen above promoting it — in live comedy shows in New York City, Los Angeles, London and Sydney, and wherever you have a screen to livestream it via …
Chris Spencer and his wife were fortunate enough to visit the White House and meet President Barack Obama. Seems like Mrs. Spencer got more out of the meeting than Chris did, however. Or should I call them the Kings? Spencer explained in this stand-up performance on last night’s episode of …
Tom Cotter returned to Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson for another stand-up set on Wednesday night’s show. This time around, Cotter talked up how stand-up comedy is a dream job, mostly when compared to all of the other jobs out there. Like your job, for example. Are you working? …
Angelina Jolie may be the most famous person you’ve ever known to openly discuss BRCA mutations and breast cancer, but it’s even more likely that you don’t know Jolie. I do know Caitlin Brodnick. And so should you. Brodnick, a 28-year-old comedian by night (and legal secretary by day) in …
Mike Wysocki is a stand-up comedian from Pittsburgh who usually spends his mornings sharing his opinions on the local radio around the Three Rivers airwaves on WDVE-FM (102.5), but he had to make a run for the border to earn his big late-night TV break last night on Arsenio. I listened …
New York magazine’s Vulture section recently started a series, “How To Make A Movie,” with plenty of noteworthy, well, how-to information for you filmmaking fans. On Tuesday, director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, The Heat) offered five lessons to live by if you decide to include a lot of ad-libbing and improvisation …
Feel like you’re not seeing enough yet of new Saturday Night Live cast member Beck Bennett? Sure, you could just wait for another commercial break on TV and hope that it’s one of his AT&T ads at the little kids table. Or you could watch this behind-the-scenes montage of SNL’s …
Watching the new fall season of network TV, it’s easy to forget that none of these shows exists in a vacuum. You may love or hate an individual sitcom or show, but its placement on the primetime schedule has as much to do with the politics of what else is …
Time is running out if you’re a stand-up comedian who’d like to win a trip to Switzerland this December to perform in the 2013 Montreux Comedy Festival… The festival happens this year from Dec. 4-10, 2013, at the foot of the Swiss Alps by Lake Geneva. You have 22 days …
Mike Epps performed on Monday night’s episode of Arsenio, and good thing they waited a couple of days after Billy Ray Cyrus was on the show, because Epps had some jokes to say about watching Miley Cyrus onstage with her “chicken cutlets” hanging out and bouncing about. A far cry …
