The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Your imagination is not playing tricks on you this week. That probably is British rapscallion Russell Brand you see on your TV screens. Brand's first Comedy Central hour special debuted Sunday night (re-airs this coming Friday, March 13), his memoir, My Booky Wook, arrives on American bookshelves Tuesday, and he …
We always frown upon heckling in live comedy, but when it comes to college basketball? Just keep it clean. And also, know your target — you don't want to give the opposition the inspiration it needs (not that we have learned that from personal trash-talking experience, mind you, ahem). CBS …
We're still another week or so before the NCAA's March Madness kicks off, but in just two days, 64 comedians will begin their own march to glory in New York City in the third annual 2009 March Comedy Madness at Carolines. Julian McCullough won in 2007; Reese Waters last year. The …
Saturday Night Live returned last night after two weeks off with a fresh case of spring fever and a ham sandwich of a host, and although I cannot say that any of the sketches are instant classics, I can say that the entire show was at least fairly funny from …
Derrick comedy has a laugh-out-loud hilarious, dark comedy movie on their hands, and if all things go well, soon enough, there will be a distribution deal for Mystery Team. How do I know this? I managed to get in on one of the intimate free screenings in New York City …
When D.L. Hughley began his weekly weekend hour on CNN last fall, he joked about moving to New York City and the cold weather. Hughley, who turns 45 today (happy birthday!), didn't quite make it through his first winter, announcing yesterday (just a day before spring weather has arrived, coincidentally) …
So many wild and wonderful things happened at the 92YTribeca show where I quoted Zach Galifianakis recently. After that show, actor Bradley Cooper showed up backstage to hang with Galifianakis and I thought, hmmm, that's interesting. Then I learned that Cooper and Galifianakis are starring together (along with Ed Helms) …
Daniel Tosh received word Thursday that Comedy Central had made a 10-episode order for his half-hour comedy series that will give Tosh a weekly opportunity to rant and rave about the Internet and things he see online. It's called Tosh.0 and will debut in June. "Finally, a television show that …
How many character-based comedy acts have lasted 30 years? Bob Einstein, older brother of Albert Brooks, got an early break as a writer for The Smothers Brothers Comedy Hour, but on his own, he has made a lasting contribution to multiple generations of comedy fans with his creation of daredevil …
Today the pop culture universe revolves around the new Watchmen movie, so far be it for me to miss out on this, especially since one of our superheroes is called The Comedian. Even though I have yet to read the comic, nor did I go to a midnight screening or …