The Definitive Guide to Comedy
How confident must producers of Last Comic Standing be of their bounty of stand-up comedians for this summer’s ninth season? Production already wrapped back in April, the show won’t debut on NBC for another six weeks, and yet — tickets already started going on sale to see the LCS finalists …
The Three Stooges can never die, and that’s not just written into their plotlines. Forty years after Moe Howard and Larry Fine both died in 1975, the often-violent slapstick antics of Moe, Larry and Curly continue to be revived and reanimated. Just in the past month, The Three Stooges estate …
Paul Zerdin is an Englishman who has won TV talent shows across the pond in his youth. But Zerdin is older now, and he, just like Englishmen of old, wants to conquer America. And so here he is, auditioning for America’s Got Talent‘s 10th season on NBC. He performed vocal …
Producers for NBC’s America’s Got Talent tried to pull a quick fast one on viewers, making a joke out of the reveal that auditioner Scott Heierman is a bearded lady. But Heierman had the joke on them — since, of course, the 25-year-old who delivers pizzas in Lexington, Kentucky, is …
It may be the Stanley Cup Finals in Chicago and Tampa Bay, but in New York City, it’s only the beginning for the cast of IFC’s new sitcom, Benders. Lindsey Broad, Chris Distefano, Mark Gessner, Ruy Iskander and Andrew Schulz have been cast as the starting line for the eight-episode …
Gina Brillon‘s sister has low self-esteem, and it’s not because Gina is a stand-up comedian, or why she is. Nor does it explain why Gina sees a therapist herself. A therapist might be a better dating option for her than the young boys in New York City who keep hitting …
Elayne Boosler was a regular performer on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Carson, and this week the “new” guy Jimmy Fallon brought her back for a new stand-up set. Just in time for the next Macy’s One Day Sale! The main thing that’s changed for her since the Carson era …
The great Gary Gulman went against character on Tuesday’s Conan by going into character. Or rather, by going along with his girlfriend’s idea to introduce role-playing into their bedroom routine. Which goes pretty deep. As Gulman explained in this stand-up set. Roll the clip!
On this day in 1982, the first year of David Letterman’s 33-year run in late-night television, Todd Barry already was a man with a plan for his comedy career. Or as Letterman introduced him: “Todd Barry. Apparently a man with a lot of time on his hands.” That’s because he …
Comedy Central is letting us know at the unofficial start of summer that The Daily Show will pass the reins to Trevor Noah at summer’s end, with a Sept. 28, 2015, launch date for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. See? Yeah. It’s happening. Even Jon Stewart is unamused.
