The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Seaton Smith delivered a breakout performance this winter in FOX’s seemingly short-lived sitcom, Mulaney. Getting that role made Smith consider, however briefly, the possibility of becoming a Republican — as he joked on Thursday night’s episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers. Smith also jokes about having to explain to his …
Andrew Dice Clay is having another moment. Showtime announced today it has ordered six episodes of Dice, a semi-autobiographical single-cam series that’ll film in Las Vegas later this year and air in 2016. The pay-cable network already is set to premiere his latest stand-up special, Andrew Dice Clay Presents the Blue …
Bill Murray and Will Ferrell are two funny men too funny for Twitter — and don’t you dare support those joke thieves who continue to cybersquat on their Twitter presences, because they’re frauds. Suffice it to say, you won’t see Murray or Ferrell promoting their fashion senses on Twitter. But …
“I am so trained as a husband,” Dana Gould said on Wednesday’s Conan. Emerging from a divorce, he might not know how to approach a new lady for a date. And yet, as he explains toward the end of his latest stand-up performance, Gould has thought through even the very …
George Miller died in 2003 from complications of leukemia at the age of 61, but before that, the stand-up comedian from the Seattle area had appeared some 56 times on David Letterman’s NBC and CBS late-night TV shows. “George was my oldest friend, and one of the funniest people I …
That NBC sitcom Undateable not only would survive an initial short-order rookie season last summer, but also become the anchor of the network’s lineup this spring, says as much about the state of NBC’s comedy programming as it does about this particular stand-up-filled multi-cam from Bill Lawrence. That NBC would …
During Monday’s SXSW panel on “Creating the Shows That We Like,” Will Forte — co-creator and showrunner on the new FOX series he stars in, The Last Man on Earth — recounted an old, very NSFW bit he used to run with while a member of Los Angeles sketch group, …
“Why invite me if you don’t want it to get ugly?” That was Roastmaster Kevin Hart talking at the top of the Comedy Central Roast of Justin Bieber, which taped Saturday night in Los Angeles and premieres March 30 on Comedy Central. Joining Hart in the #BieberRoast? Hannibal Buress, Chris D’Elia, Pete Davidson, Natasha …
Forbes prints out a list each year of the 10 comedians who made the most money from touring, films, TV gigs and commercial endorsements. But who’s really raking in the dough? Graduate student Randy Olson followed the money to CelebrityNetWorth.net and then started crunching the numbers. Here’s what he figured …
President Barack Obama appeared as a guest on Thursday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC. Before he sat down for an interview with Kimmel, Obama took part in the show’s popular recurring segment, “Mean Tweets,” reading aloud the jabs that random trolls and other people have typed about him …
