The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Each season, ABC’s Dancing With The Stars reliably has at least one designated comedian among the dancers — of course, there are usually more than that who prove to be jokes as contestants. And in Season 17, which began last week, stand-up comedian Bill Engvall is that dancer. Engvall survived …
Oh, snap. Zach Sherwin, comedian and hip-hop rhymer, returned to Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on Monday night and presented Jay-Z with the rap battle he didn’t see coming. Or, perhaps not so much a war as much as something better, ’twas Sherwin’s suggestions in the form of an …
Talk about hitting two birds with one stone cold photo. Who Say what now? That’s Jim Carrey this morning, posting a promotional shot of himself with newly minted Emmy winner Jeff Daniels as they revive their Dumb and Dumber characters — Lloyd Christmas and Harry Dunne — for the Farrelly …
Hey, kids! And by kids, I mean comedy fans who are between the ages of 14-23 and have a knack for drawing funny things! Reader’s Digest just launched its first-ever Search for the Next Great Cartoonist. Is that you? If so, put your pen to paper or whatever markers you …
If you tuned in last night to Conan’s special Breaking Bad episode, then perhaps you noticed that TBS offered what the network called a “Sneak Pete” at its upcoming late-night series, The Pete Holmes Show. And what a delightfully odd duck of a preview it was. Roll the clip! Fans …
Tina Fey and Tracey Wigfield did not win the Emmy this year for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics, but the 30 Rock finale episode they wrote (“Last Lunch”) that included the “Rural Juror” song did win for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, so that’s got to count for something. …
When you turn on your TV tonight and gather around your computers, tablets and phones for that second-screen social-media experience of laughing along with the Emmys with your “friends,” you’ll find that many of them aren’t offering their live commentary tonight on Twitter. Rather, they’re on another network, as the …
AMC is rebroadcasting all five-plus seasons of Breaking Bad beginning next week so everyone can get all caught up in time for the explosive series finale of one of the greatest ever dramatic series to grace our television sets. So why not also sit down and laugh out loud for …
Last night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon kicked off an ambitious, weird experiment in advertising that’s both old-school #tbt-worthy, whilst also modern enough to throw in all of the social media that goes with using a hashtag and an acronym like #tbt. For four consecutive Thursday nights, Lexus is assembling …
How many of you have seen New Jersey municipal judge Vince Sicari perform stand-up in New York City or elsewhere as Vince August? Please raise your hands. You’re not disqualified to be on the jury, because the question is now moot. After the New Jersey state Supreme Court ruled on …
