The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Michael Blackson bills himself as “The African King of Comedy.” You got a problem with that, Modasucka? Blackson performed stand-up on Friday’s episode of Arsenio, and let us know that Compton has a new visitor. Please do not call him a booty-scratcher or anything that refers to the darkness of …
Noël Wells made an immediate first impression in her Saturday Night Live debut in September. Standing out from the pack of new cast members — all of whom were teasingly introduced by host Tina Fey in the season-premiere’s monologue — Wells stepped forward in the very next moment, a digital …
If you want to know what’s really going on with Katt Williams, don’t try believing whatever the tabloid magazines or gossip sites mislead you into thinking, especially when you can go straight to the source. Thank goodness for Arsenio Hall. Having Arsenio back on late-night TV provides a place where …
Now you might be asking yourself: If Phil Hanley is a stand-up comedian, then why is a woman standing next to him, as they’re both holding scripts of some sort? Good question! On Hanley’s appearance on Thursday night’s episode of The Pete Holmes Show, he asked a woman from the …
Connecticut is a long way from Hollywood. Too far, it appears, for Cedric The Entertainer to handle a bicoastal life as host of syndicated game show Who Wants to be a Millionaire, star of TV Land’s The Soul Man, and pursue other projects. So he has quit the game show. …
If you’ve got a great TV or webseries pitch and don’t know where to go next, how about Montreal? Just For Laughs, the biggest comedy confab of the year, once again is hosting a “Pitch Your Project” contest for makers of TV series and webseries alike. JFL has extended its …
When is the last time you remember seeing Jimmie Walker do stand-up comedy on the TV? If you remember Jimmie J.J. Walker, then Dy-N0-Mite! Good times. Good Times! Walker performed Tuesday on Arsenio, and noted that he’ll have to change his racial profile now that Latinos have become the dominant …
If there’s Throwback Thursday and Flashback Friday, what does it mean when two comedians get old-school nostalgic on a Monday night? I don’t know, but that didn’t stop Ray Romano and Arsenio Hall from taking to the mics — standing side-by-side on Monday night’s episode of Arsenio — to trade …
Tina and Amy are a great comedy team. We’re all right to love watching Tina Fey and Amy Poehler onscreen together, either as themselves at an awards show or playing fictional characters making merry in sitcoms or movies. But they’re part of a long line of great female comedy duos …
Cristela Alonzo returned to Conan on Monday, and joked about living on a Texas border town with Mexico, which meant she grew up as a Dallas Cowboys fan. Which used to mean something when everyone called the Cowboys “America’s Team.” But for the past two decades, what have they done …
