The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you feel like you’ve missed out already on Billy Crystal’s revival of his one-man show on Broadway, 700 Sundays, then don’t worry so long as you have HBO in 2014. The autobiographical show — written by Crystal along with Alan Zweibel — returned to Broadway last month and runs …
Charlie Murphy and Arsenio Hall go way back — of course, Arsenio co-starred in multiple movies with Charlie’s brother, Eddie, during the 1980s — so when Charlie performed stand-up on Wednesday night’s episode of The Arsenio Hall Show, he also spent some time on the sofa doing panel with the …
Josh Blue, past winner on Last Comic Standing, appeared on Monday night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. What’s he been up to since then? Well, for one thing, Blue has a wife and kids. She’s Japanese. They’re a lot of things. Check multiple boxes on your demographic forms. Visiting …
Can game shows conform to the rules of the road online? A new series, Money Where Your Mouth Is, debuted this week on Hulu, hosted by Jay Mohr and sponsored by Campbell’s Chunky soup. It’s only 15 minutes long. And since it’s Hulu, you will see the ads. The format …
Breaking Bad may have captivated us as an award-winning drama over the past several years, but we’ve also noticed how much Vince Gilligan’s TV series about a dying chemistry teacher who becomes a dangerous meth dealer also owes to comedy. Specifically, to comedians. We haven’t seen the last of Bob …
Jay Larson and fellow comedian Sean Patton are on a journey to find and drink their way through the Best Bars in America for the new Esquire cable channel. You can see that Thursday night. But first, Larson was on Conan on Monday night, where he regaled the audience with …
Theo Von performed on Monday night’s Arsenio and planned to tell jokes, but he’s from New Orleans, Brad Pitt lives sometimes in New Orleans, and sometime recently, Von met Pitt. So he just had to tell us all about it. Roll the clip.
Congratulations to Zoltan Kaszas from San Marcos, Calif., for emerging victorious in the 34th annual monthlong stand-up contest known as the Seattle International Comedy Competition. In a “Meet the Finalist” interview before last week’s final five shows, Kaszas said winning would mean a lot to him. “There were so many …
Because time is relative, even more so on the Internet than in real life, we have multiple Twitter accounts imagining what “life” is like today for the TV characters from 1990s hit sitcom Seinfeld. @Seinfeld2000 threw down the Thanksgiving gauntlet by remixing a classic multiple-episode plotline — that of George Costanza …
You don’t normally see method acting continue after production wraps on a movie. But then again, you haven’t seen a promotional effort quite as extensive as the one we’re currently seeing for Anchorman 2. It’s still more than two weeks before the film sequel has Will Ferrell and friends reviving …
