Dave Shirley’s audition for America’s Got Talent 2013
by “I’m a comedian, but I don’t tell jokes.” That’s what Dave Shirley told the judges of NBC’s America’s Got Talent at the start of his …
Year: 2013
Daily double! Angela Hoover’s “America’s Got Talent” audition airs same night as role in “Inside Amy Schumer”
Who is Angela Hoover? No, you’re not on Jeopardy or in jeopardy, for that matter. Just noting that millions of Americans newly discovered Angela Hoover …
Kathleen Madigan describes life on Lewis Black’s comedy cruise
Kathleen Madigan performed on last night’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno, and let us all in on her very first experience with life on a …
On Conan, Myq Kaplan ponders time travel
Myq Kaplan returned to the Conan program on the TBS last night. Kaplan ponders the idea of a Buddhist extremist, as well as zombie Hitler, …
WGA chooses 101 “Best Written TV Series of All Time”
If the Writers Guild of America membership is to be believed, half of the best-written TV series of all time just so happened to have …
Movies / Reviews / TV / Uncategorized
A look back at Richard Pryor: “Omit the Logic”
Ask most comedians today who they love and loved watching perform, and Richard Pryor’s name is more likely than not to make the cut as …
Audio / TV / Uncategorized
Before SNL: The Lonely Island’s history with MTV, FOX and Comedy Central
Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taconne were childhood friends in Berkeley, Calif., who went off to separate colleges before reuniting and forming The Lonely …
“Why does my vagina have to be your crutch?” Lindy West debates Jim Norton on FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell
If you’re looking for a healthy, lengthy debate about how comedy and feminism don’t have to be mutually exclusive concepts that tear at each other …
Review: Colin Quinn, “Unconstitutional,” at Barrow Street Theatre
If “Long Story Short” told the story of the rise and fall of every empire, including our own, then Colin Quinn’s new one-man show, “Unconstitutional,” …
Review: Trevor Noah, “Born a Crime”
Growing up in South Africa with an African mother and a Swiss-German father, the nation’s prevailing policy of Apartheid at the time meant that Trevor Noah had …