The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In 1997, Mike Scott was a teen-aged aspiring comedian who wrote to Phil Hartman seeking advice about entering the world of show business. Sixteen years later, Scott is helping preserve and share a rare piece of Hartman’s comedic legacy, a multi-voice album the late comedian recorded before he made it …
Doug Stanhope brought his latest stand-up comedy tour into New York City, with gigs Sunday and Monday night at B.B. King’s in Times Square, and sat in for a memorable Monday-morning discussion with the Opie & Anthony show on SiriusXM satellite radio. It opened with some lighthearted discussion about the …
“Are you good?” Marc Maron asks the question sincerely after I enter his hotel room in Midtown Manhattan, catching the comedian amid a day full of back-to-back phone interviews with the media. Not “Are we good?” nor the colloquial “We good?” that has become a commonplace catch-all catchphrase of sorts …
Is the world ready for Mel Brooks to join the Twitter conversation? Ready or not, here comes @MelBrooks later today in an event coordinated for Comedy Central’s first-ever online #ComedyFest — that starts today and continues through May 3, 2013 — with the 2,000(minus 1,914)-year-old comedian in conversation with Carl …
Cheech & Chong celebrated an extra-special 4/20 week in 2013 with a big smokin’ promotional tour, capped off Thursday afternoon with a surprise visit from an unsurprising big fan in hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg during the comedy duo’s “Town Hall” recording for SiriusXM. And if we’re supposed to call Calvin …
For his new stand-up comedy special, Gabriel Iglesias is so big he needs three Sundays to air all of “Aloha Fluffy” on Comedy Central — April 7 and April 14 — with the entire stand-up performance airing at once on April 27, 2013. Iglesias also has served as host of …
Rachel Dratch recalls watching the first season of Saturday Night Live as a nine-year-old growing up in Massachusetts. “I was sleeping over at a friend’s house. She had an older brother who was watching it. I was immediately clicked into this, ‘What is this?!’ I was just fascinated by it. …
Fantasy football leagues have become so widespread and commonly accepted as a hobby that it’s the focus of a long-running sitcom on FX, The League. Why not spin the concept out, and have a fantasy comedy league? That’s what the comedians at SiriusXM decided. Last Friday on “Fridays with Breuer,” …
Comedy Central has been on your TVs and on your Internet since before Y2K, but this spring, it’ll finally be on your satellite radios, too. Comedy Central Radio is coming to SiriusXM. The TV network and the radio network announced the deal today. Launch date is Spring 2013. Don’t be …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… USA is developing a potential late-night talk show with Gary Sanchez Productions that would air in the midnight hour as technically the earliest of early-morning shows. It’s from creators and executive producers Owen Burke and Rob Cohen. MTV is working with Dana Min …
