The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Rick Ducommun began and ended his life in Canada, but in between, the comedian became one of those character actors you’d see in many movies and sitcoms through the late 1980s and early 1990s. Ducommun died June 12 in a Vancouver hospice, surrounded by family, due to complications from diabetes. …
It took a few months, but The Late Late Show with James Corden finally welcomed its first stand-up comedian to the show to perform stand-up. Although Nick Thune took the idea and ran with it, arriving onstage in black-tie with an acceptance speech prepared for the award he held proclaiming …
Tim Minchin stopped by Conan on Monday night to perform one of his songs from the Broadway hit, Matilda the Musical. This is “When I Grow Up,” featuring Minchin on piano and vocals, with more than a little help from three of the touring Matildas. Roll the clip!
Strapping fireworks to your body and jumping up, down and around while they shoot into the air might not be considered high comedy, but if you’ve ever performed in the San Francisco or Seattle comedy competitions, then you probably have met or encountered Wally Glenn. Glenn has been the longtime …
Uzeyer Novruzov said he was channelling the spirit of the late great Charlie Chaplin for his audition on season 10 of NBC’s America’s Got Talent. But his stunt work up and down and atop a freestanding ladder certainly looked more like something Buster Keaton would have pulled off in one …
In my book, comedian Jeff Dye already won this summer’s celebrity talent challenge on NBC, I Can Do That, since the network announced last week that Dye will join another all-star group for NBC’s Better Late Than Never this August. Dye sees it differently. “I’m very happy that you just …
Plenty of magazines and websites post slideshows of their hottest 50 up-and-coming stand-up comedians to keep an eye out for before they blaze a trail of glory. Only Variety jets its comedians up to Montreal to fete them in front of the show business industry’s agents, managers and producers. Here …
As a lifelong native New Yorker, Colin Quinn must have appeared in multiple episodes within the Law & Order universe on NBC, right? You’d think that, wouldn’t you. So would Quinn. Especially since every other NYC comedian and aspiring actor has performed a turn in one or more of the …
FX’s Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll rolls out July 16, 2015, but a month ahead of the premiere, the cable network is giving us a special sneak peek at the band at the heart of the series with its first music video. This is “Die Trying,” featuring Liz Gillies and Denis Leary. They play …
“If you can laugh at yourself, you’re one step closer to freedom.” That’s how Jeffrey Ross, aka “The Roastmaster General,” describes his decision to venture into the proverbial belly of the beast and make fun of the prisoners of Brazos County in West Texas near College Station. His mission, filmed …
