The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In case you missed it…Ellen DeGeneres was too sick to show up for work for the taping of Friday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, so she called in an Ellie to substitute. Ellie Kemper, as seen on The Office and Bridesmaids, and soon to star in a new NBC …
The official NBC Last Comic Standing website is still a few days away from making the leap from 2010 to present-day 2014. But the email line is open now if you want Last Comic‘s producers to consider you for an on-air callback audition! That is, if Gmail is working today… …
As Jay Leno prepares to say goodbye for a second and final — no, this time, he and NBC really mean it! — to The Tonight Show, Leno sat down with 60 Minutes for an extended interview and profile. And by extended, I mean, we get to see his wife, …
What are you most afraid of? Heights? Public speaking? Chris Fairbanks has other ideas, and he’ll gladly share them with you, as he did on last night’s Conan. Brushing his teeth doesn’t scare him, but it does scare his roommate. Also, what do you say at the end of the …
Remember when Saturday Night Live‘s head writers stayed behind the camera? Lo, those were days, pre-Y2K. SNL and NBC announced today that Colin Jost, currently the show’s co-head writer, would take over the Weekend Update anchor chair held by other co-head writer Seth Meyers when Meyers departs next month for …
There was something a bit odd about Phil Perrier’s stand-up performance Wednesday night on Arsenio. No, it wasn’t the long limp out to center stage on a cane. That was odd, to be sure. But no. The answer we were looking for is host Arsenio Hall’s quips to Perrier after …
In Case You Missed It! Comedic icon Bill Murray — famously without an online presence or an offline management/representation system to deal with all of us, and infamously famous for showing up in the most likely and unlikely of places — combined both of these traits to do the most …
From the official NBC policy, regarding stand-by tickets for fans who want to attend the very live broadcast of Saturday Night Live: Stand-by tickets are distributed at 7am on the 49th st. side of 30 Rockefeller Plaza on the mornings of the show. You may choose a stand-by ticket for …
Tim Carvell, the head writer of Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, celebrated his last day on Thursday. Carvell left to join John Oliver as executive producer of Oliver’s new weekly talk show that’ll debut on HBO later this year. Despite writing for Stewart for 10 years, Carvell …
More than three decades before Dave Chappelle rocked Comedy Central with his portrayal of “Clayton Bigsby,” and less than a decade after the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s “I Have A Dream” speech that capped off the 1963 March on Washington for civil rights, Bill Cosby delivered a devastating …
