The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Where does Nick Offerman end and Ron Swanson begin? To be fair, Offerman isn’t the first comedian to portray a fictitious and yet slightly realistic version of himself on television. Just think back to the previous comedy boom of the late 1980s and early 1990s, when several stand-up comedians earned …
As if you need to be reminded, but Funny or Die is producing a special half-hour episode of its popular webseries, Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, which will premiere on Sunday, May 6, immediately before the second annual Comedy Awards on Comedy Central. The special, Between Two Ferns: A …
Nobody knows why this happened. Nobody knows how this happened. But this happened. Nasim Pedrad, Vanessa Bayer and Abby Elliott — who portray three of the Kardashian Klan on Saturday Night Live — somehow found themselves dressed in character posing for a photo with the Kardashian Klan. Something tells me …
Mario Joyner has toured with Jerry Seinfeld, played small indie rooms such as the UCB Theatre in New York City, hosted a stand-up comedy showcase on MTV before you were born, and performed on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. The man is versatile! In this clip from Monday night, …
If you missed Meet the Press on Sunday morning, then don’t worry about it. Because you likely wouldn’t have seen this 15-minute conversation with Fred Armisen and Jason Sudeikis on your NBC-TV dial, anyhow. It’s the Internet, baby! David Gregory visited the Saturday Night Live to chat up Armisen and …
For the first time since publishing his heart-wrenching memoir, Darrell Hammond returned to the Ed Sullivan Theater to perform stand-up Friday on Late Show with David Letterman. Don’t worry. Things didn’t get maudlin here. Nope. Instead, you’re treated to Hammond’s familiar impersonations made famous on his record-setting tenure on Saturday …
The years since Stephen Colbert shocked the White House Correspondents Dinner — and then sitting President George W. Bush — have seen the so-called “nerd prom” (how are they nerds and how is this a prom, exactly?) veer every which way but loose in a systematically reactive process in trying …
The Comedy Awards 2012 will air on Comedy Central on Sunday, May 6. But the taping happens tonight in New York City, so this is my last chance to put in my two cents — as well as your last chance in a few viewers choice categories to help select …
Successful stand-up comedy duos are rare; rarer, still, are comedy duos who are identical twins. The Sklars probably are best-known among today’s acts. Stone & Stone perform regularly here in New York City. And now here come The Lucas Brothers, from High Point, N.C. Keith and Kenny Lucas now make …
NBC let 30 Rock go meta last night, as its second time doing double-duty live shows (one for the Eastern and Central time zones, and one for the West Coast) found the fake show-within-a-show debating the merits of continuing with live shows for TGS. That allowed Kenneth the NBC Page …
