The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Let’s Get Going, America! Two of you must get going, too. Sorry about that. There’s something about watching these TV comedy competitions dress up stand-ups and challenge them in different formats — particularly in this week’s sketch challenge on Last Comic Standing — that reminds me of Mitch Hedberg’s too-true …
There is a funny show hidden within Funniest Wins. Perhaps too hidden from view, and viewers. It debuted late last Friday night (with repeats overnight Saturday) on TBS and scared up less than a half-million viewers. More of you watched aspiring comedians on VH1’s I Love The 2000s — as well …
Daniel Sloss returned to Conan on Thursday night to talk about the ladies of Wimbledon, the futility of making videogame soccer a bit too realistic, and the dilemma of Tinder. Timely! Topical! Trendy! Things are not going well for Sloss on all three fronts, which makes for more jokes for …
Almost a year after NBC Universal tapped Lou Wallach to develop a second sketch comedy troupe for the network to be taped and broadcast on a night other than Saturday… The Untitled Sketch Comedy Show had a written pilot ready to shoot over the weekend. Not much made public about …
Steve Harvey thought it best to sit out the 2014 Daytime Emmy Awards (that’s a photo, above, of him presenting at the 2013 ceremony, back in the olden times when the event was televised) this weekend, and so the livestream did not have the chance to reward him in person …
The good news is we’ll see at least two more seasons of Bob Odenkirk’s lawyer Saul Goodman on TV. The bad news? We’ll have to wait a few more months to do so. AMC announced yesterday it’d already ordered a second season of Better Call Saul, the Breaking Bad spinoff …
Are you ready for the second half of our semifinals in season eight of NBC’s Last Comic Standing? Ready or not, here it comes. And this time, the remaining semifinalists only have one mentor to guide them and advise them. Sorry, no Amy Schumer in the house at the Jon …
If you didn’t book yourself a ticket for one of Monty Python’s 10 sold-out shows this July at The O2 Arena in London, then you’ll have to enjoy it from the comfort of your own home or local cinema. Which is a much more attainable goal. The Monty Python Live …
Live from New York and a Ben & Jerry‘s scoop shop near you, it’s new Saturday Night Live flavors! Lazy Sunday: Vanilla cake batter ice cream base with chocolate and yellow cupcake pieces & a chocolate frosting swirl. Inspired by The Lonely Island’s digital smash hit for SNL with the …
A couple of weeks into The Pete Holmes Show on TBS last fall, Holmes sought to let viewers know how he felt about hosting his own late-night TV show, when all of a sudden, a familiar voice interrupted his monologue. It was Seinfeld. Not Jerry Seinfeld. New Material Seinfeld. A …
