The Definitive Guide to Comedy
We have our five finalists on season 8 of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and now we know we’ll be able to see them all perform live in a theater near you this fall. The show announced a tour that kicks off Sept. 16, 2014, in Tuscon, crosses America and back …
Comedy Central President Kent Alterman heaped hyperboles of praise upon Nathan Fielder an hour ago as the “Breakout Comedy Performer of the Year” at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival in a speech that Alterman claimed Fielder had written for him. But the most important words Fielder heard from Alterman today …
That’s Incredible was a popular variety/reality TV series in the early 1980s. This NCredible Improv series on Syfy, casting this summer with an air date to be determined, is the brainchild of Nick Cannon. NCredible is Cannon’s branding for his entertainment management company as well as his merchandising. Syfy announced …
After what seemed like a month of repeats and repackaged highlights from the auditions for the 2014 season of America’s Got Talent, we finally moved on to Judgment Week — this time not in Las Vegas, but in New York, or New Jersey. Close enough for judge Howard Stern to …
If you’re looking to join the completists who claim to have watched every episode of The Simpsons at least once, then you best prepare yourself for Aug. 21, 2014. That’s when FXX will start a marathon that airs all 25 seasons of The Simpsons in chronological order — with The …
Three isn’t just the magic number. Three also makes a trend, so what to make of the Bearded Best Friend who’ll pop up on at least three new sitcoms this fall? Note: It’d be four or more in 2014 if NBC renews Undateable (featuring Ron Funches), and if you count …
Say what you will about the legitimacy of rape jokes, but at least we all can agree that prison rape is hilarious, right ladies? Because it’s not about you. It’s about horrible men convicted of doing horrible things, having something horrible done to them. Cheeky bastards! John Oliver has crafted …
The CW announced at the TCAs over the weekend that it’s going to keep the make-em-up funnies coming for at least another year, ordering 24 more half-hour episodes of Whose Line Is It Anyway? to air in 2015. The improvisational comedy “game show” made its return last year with a …
Nick Thune: Is he a hipster or a businessman from the 19th century? Maybe he’s just high. Can’t say the same about his dog, or can he? In two videos, because that’s how The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon is playing the YouTube game these days, here’s Nick Thune’s five-minute …
If there ever were a challenge that I know I could have won on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, then this week’s Universal Studios Tram Experience challenge showed me the way. Back in the late 1990s, while living in Seattle as a young stand-up comedian and improviser myself, I got hired …
