The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Broad City, the Comedy Central series that began as a webseries by Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, has its TV debut on Jan. 22, 2014. But the premiere episode already hit the Internets over the weekend for you to enjoy now or at your leisure over the next few weeks. …
Twas the day after the day after Christmas, so now it’s safe to take another look at comedic takes on the song, “Baby, It’s Cold Outside.” You may have loved watching Jimmy Fallon and Cecily Strong put their spin on the Christmastime song in last weekend’s Saturday Night Live. Of …
Improv comedy fans received an early Christmas and New Year’s present when Showtime announced it’s airing a long-form comedy special with Ben Schwartz and his cast mates from the network’s House of Lies for New Year’s Eve. Schwartz executive produced the project HOUSE OF LIES LIVE!, and wrote on Monday: …
The Christmas holiday edition of Saturday Night Live usually offers something special for viewers and cast alike — from the big-time surprise celebrity cameos, to Christmas cheer, to the now-traditional post-SNL all-skate on the rink outside 30 Rock at Rockefeller Plaza. Add in a host who’s not only a cherished …
Judd Apatow appeared on Thursday’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno to promote Anchorman 2, but host and guest also took a couple of minutes to make it a Throwback Thursday. Way back 30 years, to 1983. When Apatow was in high school and interviewing dozens of comedians for his self-produced …
You’d be nuts to think John Oliver’s final night on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart would pass by without an appropriate farewell tribute. And yet. Oliver thought he’d be filing one last report as the “Senior Royal Correspondent” to offer his insightful jokes to Stewart about hacked communications among …
There’s ego stroking. And then there’s whatever the writers and producers of long-running CBS sitcom, Two And A Half Men, are doing to perpetuate their neverending suck-up to Ashton Kutcher. Whatever are they doing, indeed? As my friends at Previously.TV point out in this new superclip reel highlighting all of the …
Mindy Kaling’s The Mindy Project on FOX has made no secret of its love for romantic comedy tropes, and particularly the film When Harry Met Sally, even incorporating scenes from that movie into the sitcom and the world of its characters. A fan last week made the case that the …
Smoking will kill you, but it still looks cool and gives you ready-made excuses. Tom Papa knows this and must convey this to all generations, as he did Monday night on Conan. Papa also reminded us of something Groucho Marx once said to a previous generation, about neither wanting nor …
The Christmas shopping season starts earlier and earlier, and Sommore thinks opening the stores on Thanksiving was downright gangsta. She performed on Friday night’s Arsenio, and explained that her shopping season extends from Thanksgiving straight through the following Tuesday. Is that off the chain or what? Sommore says what, y’all. …
