The Definitive Guide to Comedy
My friends at Chicago comedy chronicler, The Bastion, reported that Robin Williams made the scene at both the Lakeshore Theater and the smaller Town Hall Pub over the weekend, apparently prepping for an apperance on Ellen (he’s listed as the guest on Tuesday, but the show tapes a day in …
Speaking of comedy on Sunday mornings, what if I told you the serene CBS Sunday Morning turned out to be the best mainstream TV news source for profiling comedy these days? I know. And yet. Yesterday, the program did an in-depth feature on Rita Rudner. In March, a profile of …
If you’re reading this, it’s a Sunday morning, and probably not the time you’re thinking about seeing a comedy show. Unless you have kids. And then you may want to hear about a limited-time production called The Wizard’s Lounge, which offers performances today and next Sunday at 12:30 p.m. at …
Showtime announced it’s renewing Tracey Ullman’s State of the Union for a seven-episode second season, due to hit our TV screens in 2009. When Ullman returns, she’ll be joined by another British TV comedy, The Marc Wootton Project. Marc Wootton also has made a name for himself on the other …
While we wait to see what Craig Bierko has bubbling up in his bathtub, Sara Benincasa isn’t waiting for a new episode of her NSFW Tub Talk series on Nerve.com. In her new episode, she has author Jonathan Ames in the tub. The video is much too short, though. What …
The new season of Unmasked, XM satellite radio’s comedy interview program, debuts Saturday with an entertaining and enlightening retrospective on Lewis Black’s career. Host Ron Bennington recorded the interview with Black and a live studio audience last month at Comix in NYC, and if you miss it Saturday, XM will …
I cannot begin to explain what thoughts transpire inside the head of Chris Coxen, but I can tell you that the character-based comedian is committed to his lunacy. One of Coxen’s creations, combat dancer Danny Morsel, opened last season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing and returned in the grand finale, …
The other day, I caught the final few minutes of Dave Chappelle’s HBO Comedy Half-Hour from 1998 (taped in San Francisco in 1997). After a routine on racism, Chappelle closes his set wondering what would happen if and when he ever became rich and famous. It rings with so much …
New Zealand’s favorite musical parody duo with an HBO show, Flight of the Conchords, debuted at #3 on the Billboard charts this week by selling 52,000 copies of their self-titled full-length. Take that, Dane Cook?! Cook, as you may recall, rocketed into the mainstream’s collective consciousness three years ago when …
After five years heading ABC’s sitcom My Wife and Kids, reports have Damon Wayans returning to ABC to star in the TV pilot for new comedy Never Better, in which Wayans will play a misguided guy trying to be a good husband and father to his, er, um, wife and …