The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Of course, Jimmy Kimmel has opinions about the latest chapter that is the ongoing saga of NBC screwing around with The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. Kimmel has impersonated Leno for an entire episode of his own late-night show, ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, which just moved up a half-hour in …
Andy Hendrickson made his network television debut on Wednesday night’s episode of Late Show with David Letterman. Hendrickson, who grew up in the Beltway of Washington D.C., joked about being having a successful brother in and out of the military, having a baby in the era of social media oversharing, …
Twenty-one years ago, NBC announced an orderly transition for The Tonight Show, handing over the hosting reins from icon Johnny Carson to his permanent guest host, Jay Leno. Carson’s own favorite, Late Night host David Letterman, bolted to CBS. In 2004, NBC vowed to do better, and announced an orderly …
At the end of Tuesday night’s episode of Tosh.0 on Comedy Central, host and star Daniel Tosh took about 140 seconds to call out his several Twitter imposters. “It’s not a parody if it’s done this poorly!” Tosh said. “100,000 of you are stupid enough to believe this hack is …
Some aspiring comedians think they need to start performing stand-up as soon as possible; like yesterday, even. Just watch Bill Cosby. Take notes. Cosby returned to Late Show with David Letterman last night, and at 75, he remains at the top of his game. Even when he’s pretending he isn’t, …
Stephen Colbert plays “Stephen Colbert” on Comedy Central, and in doing so on The Colbert Report, he has pretended to be a conservative talking airhead while mocking same, and also used satire to poke holes in our political process by launching his own PAC during the 2012 election cycle. His …
D.L. Hughley may not have started his Dancing With the Stars experience on the right foot Monday night (earning the low scores of the evening in week one), but the stand-up comedian did have some great news to fall back on — his Comedy Central special, D.L. Hughley: The Endangered …
What’s a decade for comedy nerds to wait for their beloved British characters? Over the weekend, we saw the rebirth of not only Steve Coogan’s “Alan Partridge,” but also Ricky Gervais’ “David Brent.” Coogan’s fictional radio and TV talk-show host has popped up in various projects over the past two …
Trick question. This is a segment from Onion SportsDome that aired on Comedy Central in 2011. As friend of the site Krister Johnson, who worked on Onion SportsDome, noted on Sunday: “It could have been produced by the CNN team covering the Steubenville rape verdict.” On Sunday, two teen-age boys who …
In case you missed it, this week on ABC’s new episode of Celebrity Wife Swap, comedian Gilbert Gottfried and comedic actor Alan Thicke spent time in the other man’s shoes and households, living with the other man’s wife. Actually, it’s the wives who switch homes and families, and find out …
