The Definitive Guide to Comedy
For the second straight year, a stand-up comedian has finished second on America’s Got Talent. Taylor Williamson didn’t think he would win, jokingly or not, and his prediction proved true last night live on NBC, as dancer Kenichi Ebina won the $1 million prize and headlining show in Las Vegas …
Bill Bellamy performed stand-up on The Arsenio Hall Show last night, and fun fact Arsenio mentions in the introduction: Did you know Bellamy coined the term “booty call?” Fun fact. This time around, Bellamy wanted to talk about his recent trips to Nigeria — where he received a full African …
Comedy Central’s sketch comedy series, Key & Peele, returns for its third-season premiere tonight. From the start of each premise, through a wonderful job of heightening and tight closing buttons to sketches, it’s simply great comedy. And the tremendous onscreen chemistry between leads Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele certainly adds even …
We’ll find out tonight on NBC if Taylor Williamson won the $1 million grand prize and Vegas show on the 2013 edition of America’s Got Talent. But first, let’s take another look at Williamson’s stand-up comedy performances on last night’s live show from Radio City Music Hall as part of …
Taylor Williamson modified his Twitter bio @TaylorComedy this summer to read: “I’m going to lose on America’s Got Talent.” A few months later, summer ends this week, and Williamson finds himself in the final six on NBC’s “AGT” – performing live tonight from Radio City Music Hall and learning Wednesday …
Bob Newhart starred in two classic hit sitcoms — The Bob Newhart Show, 1972-1978, and Newhart, 1982-1990 — but it wasn’t until last night that he could take home his first Emmy, as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, for The Big Bang Theory. Newhart just turned 84 this …
We’re one week away from the start of the first formal week of Saturday Night Live‘s 39th season, but NBC and SNL officially made a number of cast changes today. To wit: SIX new cast members. They are, in alphabetical order and pictured above: Beck Bennett, John Milhiser, Kyle Mooney, …
Andi Osho is an established stand-up comedian in Britain but a new face for American audiences, and she made her debut TV appearance on this side of the pond on Friday night’s edition of Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Osho has some issues with online dating, which requires no …
Comedy Central Roasts are all in good fun, “but it’s brutal!” So said Sarah Silverman, interviewed by W. Kamau Bell on Thursday night’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. “I think the secret about roasts is, everybody laughs. People were saying mean things about me, I was like, ‘Ha-ha-hahaha-ha,’ and …
Stand-up comedian Louis Katz filed his first correspondent segment last night on FXX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Just in time for the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur, Katz declared he had something other than atonement on his mind. Instead, he advocated for a new kind of Jew: “the …
