Mike Myers will portray Del Close in a movie about the legendary improv comedy coach
by In an ironic twist, The Second City and its leaders are producing a biopic about the legendary late improv comedy guru, Del Close, who famously …
Month: February 2017
Comedian’s #AGoodGame initiative for Super Bowl LI raises more than LXX thousand dollars in donations
Josh Gondelman lives in New York City and writes for HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver. But Gondelman still identifies with his Boston-area roots …
Cristela Alonzo on Conan
Cristela Alonzo has a new stand-up special out on Netflix in 2017, but she recorded it before the election. Alonzo explained on Wednesday’s Conan how …
JR De Guzman wins Stand-Up NBC for diversity talent search for 2016-2017
Congrats to JR De Guzman, the 2016 winner of NBC’s Stand-Up diversity talent search! De Guzman, born in the Phillipines and raised in California, beat …
This is Spinal Tap suing Vivendi, StudioCanal now for $400 million in lost profit
The band is back together, but this time, Spinal Tap’s performers — Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer — along with the filmmaker Rob …
R.I.P. “Professor” Irwin Corey (1914-2017)
The “World’s Foremost Authority” and oldest living stand-up comedian, Professor Irwin Corey, has died. Corey was 102. Praised by Lenny Bruce as one of the …
Episode #136: Scott Aukerman
Scott Aukerman got his first big break as a writer/performer on the HBO cult classic, Mr. Show with Bob and David. But he’s responsible for …
Kristen Schaal T-Mobile Super Bowl commercials
[et_pb_section admin_label=”section”] [et_pb_row admin_label=”row”] [et_pb_column type=”4_4″] [et_pb_text admin_label=”Text”] A new series of ads for T-Mobile launched during the Super Bowl imagining Kristen Schaal as a …
Jon Lovitz subliminal Super Bowl advertisement for avocados from Mexico
Mexico has been in the news a lot recently; Jon Lovitz, less so. But leave it to the Avocados From Mexico ad campaign to utilize …
Pat Brown on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Pat Brown made her late-night TV debut as a stand-up comedian on Friday’s episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. She joked about living …