The Definitive Guide to Comedy
So we begin the sixth season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and already it’s clear they’re still playing from the American Idol of Comedy playbook, what with host Bill Bellamy delivering the introduction…wait for it…turn on the lights…to a large audience! Get it? This is big, people. Anyhow. We’re going …
This is an early review! HBO just taped four episodes of a new stand-up showcase, Down and Dirty with Jim Norton. It’ll air this fall (update! debut is midnight Oct. 4, with other episodes premiering Oct. 11, 18, and 25) They taped two episodes last night and two tonight at …
In case you haven’t been following the Internets, ABC News recently struck up a partnership with its Times Square neighbor, Carolines, for a weekly interview/performance segment called Carolines on GMA Now. Club owner Caroline Hirsch also takes part in the segments and often has her own questions for the comedians. …
This is as indie rock as indie rock gets. Right? I have so many other things to be writing about right now, and yet, all I want to write about is this new Zach Galifianakis interview with Michael Showalter, er, I mean, Widge. Money quote for me: "It really started …
Only one day before the debut of season six of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, but right now, somewhere in this country (most likely Southern California), several comedians are competing in a spoof of all of the other "reality" TV shows. It’s tentatively called Reality Bites Back, coming to Comedy Central …
Another holiday weekend approaches, and regardless of how high gas prices will get by then, you still might find yourself in a different city for Memorial Day weekend, and wherever you are, you’ll definitely find yourself in need of a laugh. With that, check out my updated club listings for …
Hey, know how that presidential campaign between Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton for the Democratic nod is so fierce? Hey, know how those NBA Playoffs commercials splitting face time and voice time for competing players looks and sounds so neat? Wouldn’t it be nice if someone had the idea to …
Dead-Frog compares last week’s SNL cold open with an old live sketch featuring Rowan Atkinson doing something similar, but also quite superior. Hmmm. ChuckleDumper has a long interview with Tom Shillue (who since the interview has been on tour in Asia (Hong Kong, Manila, then into China) with Matt McCarthy, …
Sen. John McCain, the Republican presidential nominee from Arizona, has a new ad that shows what life would be like in 2013 if he were elected president. The folks at Shoot the Messenger spun this vision a year further to 2014. They unveiled this video at their live weekly show …
New York musical comedy team The Hazzards has a new music video out, titled "Always." Although I suspect that’s not the word, or even the phrase, that’ll be stuck in your head after watching and listening. A few comedians also get cameos (hello, Eric Andre and John F. O’Donnell). I …