August 2014 – Page 4 – The Comic's Comic

R.I.P. Don Pardo, 1918-2014

by Sean L. McCarthyAugust 19, 20141

Don Pardo was such a fixture of Saturday Night Live that it’ll even take creating executive producer Lorne Michaels a few years still to catch …

Character Actors Stand Up For Their Right To Star as Blockbuster Heroes

by Sean L. McCarthyAugust 19, 2014

This is a cute and enriching thing Entertainment Weekly put out earlier this month, collecting character actors normally relegated to “That Guy from That Thing” …

Cameron Esposito on Conan

by Sean L. McCarthyAugust 15, 2014August 18, 2014

I don’t know if Cameron Esposito ever considered calling her upcoming stand-up album Zero Penis Summer, but I’m sure Same Sex Symbol has a certain …

Rod Man’s debut on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

by Sean L. McCarthyAugust 15, 2014August 18, 2014

Fresh off his win last Thursday on NBC’s Last Comic Standing as the season 8 winner, Rod Man made his debut later that night with …

Rod Man wins Last Comic Standing 8

by Sean L. McCarthyAugust 15, 2014August 19, 20141

This season they let the judges and not the viewing or the studio audience decide. So it was a celebrity expert panel of Roseanne, Russell …

Netflix’s busy ongoing slate of stand-up comedy specials continues in 2014

by Sean L. McCarthyAugust 14, 2014August 19, 2014

Netflix has premiered and or distributed dozens of new stand-up comedy specials over the past year and a half, including recent performances from Doug Stanhope, …