The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Sebastian Maniscalco made his Conan debut on Thursday night. The habits of everyday people in the modern world tends to throw Maniscalco for a loop. On his mind on this night? Selling your furniture on Craigslist is weird, but so was hosting a garage sale back in the day. Also: …
Ted Alexandro returned Thursday night for another appearance on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Find out what happens when the comedian meets a female audience member after his gig who lives in his neighborhood. Will our comedic hero remain calm, cool and collected? Will he get home in one …
Todd Barry returned to Late Show with David Letterman last night, just days before his new one-hour stand-up release, “Todd Barry: Super Crazy,” hits Comedy Central, your CD and DVD stacks, iTunes files and video-game consoles. In this clip, Barry explains why, if he had to go to prison, he’d …
Tom Davis, who formed a comedy team with Al Franken before both Franken and Davis became original writers for Saturday Night Live, died today after a lengthy battle with cancer. Davis was 59. Davis won four Emmys for his comedy TV writing. On SNL, he created memorable sketches such as …
Nick Kroll’s Comedy Central sketch series, Kroll Show, doesn’t even debut until 2013. But Kroll and his friends already had taped a satirical response to Chick-fil-A, whose owner is so ultra-conservative, he thinks homosexuality is a sin. And he doesn’t open his dumb fast-food stores on Sundays, when any good …
NBC’s TODAY show today picked the best stand-up comedian. I’ll give you three guesses. No, it wasn’t you. No, it wasn’t the show that picked, but the wine-drinking duo of Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb. And not, they weren’t really out to find the best stand-up comedian. Rather, this …
Emmy nominations came out, per usual, in the wee hours of the morning so the big three broadcast TV morning shows could cover it live — followed by frantic press releases and phone calls to and from the happy honorees, their publicists, and the rest of the mainstream media. Did …
When Louis CK wrote a Tweet last week expressing his joy over Comedy Central’s Tosh.0, he had no idea about the Internet commotion going on right then about a comment Daniel Tosh had directed to a female heckler in the audience at The Laugh Factory. So Louis CK explained how he …
Cristela Alonzo made her late-night TV debut last night on Conan. She does, however, already have other TV credits to her name, including Last Comic Standing, and stand-up showcases for Comedy Central and Showtime. Alonzo explained in last night’s set that she realizes the things she can and cannot do …
David Letterman long has held a soft spot for comedians of his own generation, particularly if he was part of their circle in the Los Angeles comedy scene of the 1970s. After hearing about Gallagher’s recent health and financial problems, Letterman invited the famous watermelon-smashing prop comedian from the 1980s …
