The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Josh Blue, past winner on Last Comic Standing, appeared on Monday night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. What’s he been up to since then? Well, for one thing, Blue has a wife and kids. She’s Japanese. They’re a lot of things. Check multiple boxes on your demographic forms. Visiting …
Breaking Bad may have captivated us as an award-winning drama over the past several years, but we’ve also noticed how much Vince Gilligan’s TV series about a dying chemistry teacher who becomes a dangerous meth dealer also owes to comedy. Specifically, to comedians. We haven’t seen the last of Bob …
Jay Larson and fellow comedian Sean Patton are on a journey to find and drink their way through the Best Bars in America for the new Esquire cable channel. You can see that Thursday night. But first, Larson was on Conan on Monday night, where he regaled the audience with …
Theo Von performed on Monday night’s Arsenio and planned to tell jokes, but he’s from New Orleans, Brad Pitt lives sometimes in New Orleans, and sometime recently, Von met Pitt. So he just had to tell us all about it. Roll the clip.
Because time is relative, even more so on the Internet than in real life, we have multiple Twitter accounts imagining what “life” is like today for the TV characters from 1990s hit sitcom Seinfeld. @Seinfeld2000 threw down the Thanksgiving gauntlet by remixing a classic multiple-episode plotline — that of George Costanza …
You don’t normally see method acting continue after production wraps on a movie. But then again, you haven’t seen a promotional effort quite as extensive as the one we’re currently seeing for Anchorman 2. It’s still more than two weeks before the film sequel has Will Ferrell and friends reviving …
Interviewing your boss is weird. Interviewing your boss on TV is weirder. Interviewing your boss on TV when your boss has his own TV show interviewing other people is the weirdest. But when you’re Pete Holmes and you’ve built a following outside your stand-up comedy through a podcast called “You …
Brody Stevens stars in Comedy Central’s “first dramatic comedy series,” Brody Stevens: Enjoy It! which debuts at midnight as Sunday, Dec. 1, gives way to Monday, Dec. 2. The series looks at the life and career of Stevens. Here’s an exclusive look back at where he was four Novembers ago, …
Kevin McCaffrey has contributed monologue jokes to David Letterman and once stood on stage, hosed down by Letterman with a fire extinguisher for a bit on CBS’ Late Show. But Wednesday night’s appearance was special, for it was McCaffrey’s network TV debut as a stand-up comedian on Late Show with …
You don’t often see a comedy club owner on as a guest for a late-night TV talk show. But Budd Friedman has owned one or more clubs known as The Improv for 50 years now — and has the anniversary documentary airing next month on EPIX to show for it …
