The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Walking Dead, a show about life in Georgia just after the zombie apocalypse, has emerged this year as America’s most popular TV series — not just on cable, but also beating just about anything living and breathing on the broadcast networks among viewers 18-49. As the networks watch viewers …
Amy Schumer allowed her sometime opening act to perform the closing number this time for the first season of Comedy Central’s Inside Amy Schumer. Bridget Everett also appeared in the “Sex Tips” magazine sketch earlier in the season finale of Schumer’s series, before performing a musical number, “Titties,” at the …
Wild ‘N Out returns to the MTV airwaves after a six-year absence, resurfacing on MTV2 on July 9, 2013, with host Nick Cannon, several of his original improv comedy battlers and special guest Kevin Hart. Two teams of comedians and rappers play short games forcing them to ad-lib songs based …
President Barack Obama gave a big speech last week about climate change and carbon pollution. Or as the science people who use big words like to call the problem: Global warning. As ThinkProgress discovered in the days since Obama’s speech, his solution received coverage and opinions from the TV networks …
Zach Stone isn’t going to be famous enough for a second season, but Bo Burnham, the star of the MTV sitcom, already is well on his way to bigger fame. Burnham is from a generation growing up with the idea that everyone can be famous and everyone will be if …
Do you remember Agent Duncan from the 1992 Wesley Snipes movie, Passenger 57? If so, then this man needs no further introduction. For everyone else, here is comedian Jim McDonald, performing on last night’s episode of Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. In this set, McDonald discusses spending the night …
Well, I mean. Really, now. You didn’t think the lawyer for George Zimmerman could open his defense arguments in the Trayvon Martin murder trial with a knock-knock joke and get away with it, did you? While plenty of comedians let the lawyer’s joke have it via Twitter and Facebook retorts, …
Taylor Williamson‘s audition went well last night for America’s Got Talent. I could tell it would from the way producers opened his segment, having him bombard other contestants in waiting with street jokes while you could hear buzzers sounding off against even more contestants. They’re pulling a switcheroo on us! …
Here’s one more treat from the season of Saturday Night Live that just ended, complete with one bonus look from recently departed cast member Bill Hader. Hader weighs in on a sketch, “Song For Daddy,” cut after dress rehearsal from the week that Justin Bieber hosted and performed as musical …
Roy Wood Jr. is a grown man from Birmingham, so the idea that he still has to watch what color shirt he wears in Los Angeles seems foreign to him now in 2013. As does the concept of marriage lasting forever. Forever ever? That means a lot more now than …
