The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Ronna Glickman and Beverly Kahn are the fictional best-selling co-authors of You’ll Do a Little Better Next Time: A Guide to Marriage and Re-marriage for Jewish Singles. In real life, Ronna and Beverly are comedians Jessica Chaffin and Jamie Denbo, friends from the Boston area who have taken their accents west …
Brooks McBeth performed on Monday night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and even dropped the talk show host’s name into his stand-up act. McBeth also mentioned what it’s like opening for a certain famous comedian who gets it done, and wondered if said comedian uses his same post-joke admonishment …
Roy Wood Jr. has momma issues? As he hits his 30s, Wood — a finalist on the final season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing a couple of years ago — joked on Conan last night about weddings and what they’re really useful for, why ancient burial finds all feature corpses …
NBC announced today that Saturday Night Live would have three new featured players when the 38th season kicks off this week with host Seth MacFarlane and musical guest Frank Ocean. The new cast members are Cecily Strong, Aidy Bryant and Tim Robinson. All three are former Second City performers in …
With star players such as Kristen Wiig and Andy Samberg departing Saturday Night Live this spring, plus the departure of Abby Elliott over the summer and the potential swan song of Jason Sudeikis coming after Election Day, it’s almost a foregone conclusion that Lorne Michaels would look to bring in …
Comedy Central won the battle for late-night viewers under 35 years old during the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Now they’re looking to take it to their “real” cable news competitors with a series of TV commercials that blast them while touting Comedy Central’s “Indecision 2012” coverage — with Jon …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
People really do win in NBC’s “Stand-Up for Diversity” showcase showdown! Tone Bell, who as part of his victory in last year’s diversity contest secured a one-year talent holding deal with NBC Universal, has been cast as a regular character in the second season of Whitney, which airs on the …
Every four years, the presidential campaigns take hold of our TV lives at the end of the summer with the major party political conventions. The Democrats and Republicans still secure at least an hour of live primetime coverage each night on the big three broadcast networks, as well as additional …
Todd Barry eats out a lot. How much is a lot? Allow Barry to explain what he has seen and learned about eating his meals out in the public realm, as well as what he’d do when and if his phone fell into a toilet. It’s all in his performance …
