The Definitive Guide to Comedy
You’re not the only person to have noticed over the years that late-night TV comedy/talk shows are predominately written by and starring white men. NBCUniversal — which includes The Tonight Show (with Jay Leno current edition; Jimmy Fallon as of February 2014), Late Night (with Fallon; soon to be with …
Aparna Nancherla is a writer/performer on FXX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, but on Monday night, she had the night off from her day job so she could perform her night job on another late-night TV talk show on another network. You dig? You dig. Nancherla was on Conan. …
Sherri Shepherd hosts the second season of NickMom Night Out, the late-night stand-up comedy showcase that airs on Nick Jr. for an audience of mostly moms who are ready for a laugh after putting their children to bed. This week sees new episodes debuting nightly, with weekly premieres following at …
For a labor dispute in which the unionization of TV writers is in dispute, the Writers Guild of America sure is busy already, seemingly involved in the only actual decisions regarding E!’s Fashion Police with Joan Rivers. On Monday, the WGA announced it had expelled scribe Larry Amoros from the …
What’s your favorite SNL character? No, I mean, by name. By full name. I don’t know that we ever learned who Stefon really was, nor that anyone really cared if Gilly had a last name. And it may have taken a few tries before we learned how to spell Dooneese …
Over the past few years, Comedy Central has embraced the transition to digital consumption — first with releasing stand-up comedy albums in digital-only releases, and more recently with production and distribution of webseries that don’t make it onto the cable TV channel. Today, Comedy Central announced an internal restructuring of …
Simon Amstell is a young chap from the U.K. on his own on the road and at home. And despite his youth, he has some honestly dark and amusing insight into a life lived in isolation. No rules! Perhaps there should be some rules. Or at least one rule. Failing …
Brian McKim, aka “The Male Half” of Shecky Magazine, performed on Friday night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. For this set, McKim proved he’s still bringing the laughs per minute 25 years after he first decided to do so for a living. Jokes, jokes, jokes. Do you suppose “The …
Last week, NBC carried college football past 11:30 p.m., delaying the live start of Saturday Night Live in the Eastern and Central time zones (you Mountain and Pacific people, and people everywhere else, well, you saw SNL whenever you saw it, so you know who you were when you were …
Chris Spencer and his wife were fortunate enough to visit the White House and meet President Barack Obama. Seems like Mrs. Spencer got more out of the meeting than Chris did, however. Or should I call them the Kings? Spencer explained in this stand-up performance on last night’s episode of …
