The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Stephen Colbert plays “Stephen Colbert” on Comedy Central, and in doing so on The Colbert Report, he has pretended to be a conservative talking airhead while mocking same, and also used satire to poke holes in our political process by launching his own PAC during the 2012 election cycle. His …
D.L. Hughley may not have started his Dancing With the Stars experience on the right foot Monday night (earning the low scores of the evening in week one), but the stand-up comedian did have some great news to fall back on — his Comedy Central special, D.L. Hughley: The Endangered …
What’s a decade for comedy nerds to wait for their beloved British characters? Over the weekend, we saw the rebirth of not only Steve Coogan’s “Alan Partridge,” but also Ricky Gervais’ “David Brent.” Coogan’s fictional radio and TV talk-show host has popped up in various projects over the past two …
Mike E. Winfield enjoyed a productive and fruitful comedy festival over the weekend, earning $10,000 as winner of the 2013 Gilda’s LaughFest Stand-Up Competition in Grand Rapids, Mich. Winfield beat out nine other finalists after an eight-performance competition. You may have seen him previously on TV via Late Show with David Letterman, Showtime’s Comics Without …
Trick question. This is a segment from Onion SportsDome that aired on Comedy Central in 2011. As friend of the site Krister Johnson, who worked on Onion SportsDome, noted on Sunday: “It could have been produced by the CNN team covering the Steubenville rape verdict.” On Sunday, two teen-age boys who …
In case you missed it, this week on ABC’s new episode of Celebrity Wife Swap, comedian Gilbert Gottfried and comedic actor Alan Thicke spent time in the other man’s shoes and households, living with the other man’s wife. Actually, it’s the wives who switch homes and families, and find out …
Scott Kennedy died unexpectedly on Thursday. The stand-up comedian, known for leading dozens of stand-up comedy tours to American military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade, was in his 40s. Scott Kennedy began his comedy career in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas, in 1989, when a friend entered …
What better day than Throwback Thursday to celebrate our friend of the site’s site, Classic Television Showbiz. That’s where Kliph Nesteroff, a comedian from Vancouver, British Columbia, dives deep into the archives of show business to share the treasures he finds that we almost had forgotten, and also interviews comedians from …
Jerry Seinfeld visited The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night to promote his webseries, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” and as Seinfeld is wont to do, he performed stand-up before hitting the panel. For his stand-up set, Jerry chose to revisit some old familiar ground: Food. Even more familiar for …
Two years ago this week, Alex Koll and I enjoyed some delicious barbecue ribs and other meats and treats in Austin during SXSW. Last night, Koll was on Conan and I’m here to tell you about it. Koll lets us know just how violent our kids are in sports; not literally, but …
