The Definitive Guide to Comedy
On Saturday Night Live, oftentimes something will strike the cast and writers as super-funny around the office (particularly late at night Tuesday and into Wednesday morning of an SNL week), but not quite translate onscreen before the live audience. Such was the case, apparently, with Cup Boy and Plate Boy, …
Earlier this week, Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios, Inc., announced that its late-night talker Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen had earned a two-season renewal for fall 2011 and fall 2012 (seasons six and seven) in the largest CBS markets of New York City (WCBS), Los Angeles (KCBS) and Chicago (WBBM). The …
TV shows and their online video policies are weird. Take Jimmy Kimmel Live, for instance. The ABC late-night chat show has its own YouTube channel and puts most of every episode online the next morning, but does so by splitting every segment up into multiple bits. I learned from another …
Ron Funches wins this year’s prize for first Montreal New Face to make the leap to late-night TV post-JFL*, as he performed his set last night on Conan. Hear about why Funches left Chicago for Portland, Ore., and the differences he has experienced in his new home. Roll the clip! …
Russell Howard is a young bloke from the UK who has become a star on the telly and broken records for ticket sales by young blokes who tell jokes. But he has yet to crack the States. Last night, he made his TV debut here by appearing on Conan, and …
Lavell Crawford performed on last night’s Lopez Tonight to promote his upcoming Comedy Central special, Can A Brother Get Some Love? But Crawford wasn’t looking for love last night. Rather, he was looking to explain just how lazy he is. Also, Crawford wonders why there are so many types of …
Craig Ferguson loves to have a loosey-goosey attitude on the set of his late-night talk show for CBS, but this week takes things to another level. Or should I say, another country entirely. This week’s episodes come to us from Paris, where Ferguson recently went on a working vacation. On …
Through the magic of video recording equipment, you could watch Louis CK on your television last night performing from NYC-based Late Show with David Letterman, while two packed audiences in Montreal saw him perform live there in Canada. Louis CK is in Montreal today, as well, to receive the Just …
George Lopez introduced Atlanta native Jarrod Harris to Lopez Tonight last night by saying it was his “late-night debut,” and in it, Harris jokes about longtime popular joke target Southwest Airlines, less frequently seen in the wild Alaska gangstas, a foolproof method of combatting creditors, and more. And by more, …
Plenty of comedians attended Comic-Con 2011 in San Diego last weekend. But only a few, so far, have produced their own walkabouts from the convention. Let’s take a look and then decide amongst ourselves who did it best! First, here’s Jordan Rubin, who brought along proud comic-con nerd Brian Posehn …
