The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Could Bo Burnham be the next comedy giant? No, seriously. Look at him. He’s already as tall as Conan O’Brien, and he’s still growing! Burnham dropped the piano for this performance, but he still employed music in some interesting ways. And he also loves to comment on the art form …
Finally, someone takes on the insidious laziness of Facebook birthday notes. Keith Alerbstadt was back on Late Show with David Letterman over the weekend, and he took that on and more, including people who rescue pets, gambling, NFL quarterbacks and more. Roll the clip!
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The most remarkable thing about this week’s Saturday Night Live, with Josh Brolin returning to host, was how unremarkable the sketches were. I mean. Trust me. I’ve got remarks. You’ve got remarks. But if there’s anything to say about SNL in mid-April 2012, it’s this: You know that feeling seniors …
On NBC’s Community, they typically use the minute-long final segment (why does NBC break up their shows this way again? to disrupt your DVRs? yes, I think that’s why) to produce a non-sequitur scene. And it often stars or features Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi). At the end …
BET announced several new scripted and “semi-scripted” TV series at its upfront presentation, including a show for Kevin Hart (the supposed next big thing in comedy for more than a hot minute now) and the next generation of Wayans brothers. Hart will star in House Husbands, a partially-scripted comedy about …
Oh, Tim Minchin. Cheeky lad, he. Even when Minchin decides to scale back his musicianship to perform a TV-friendly, three-minute song for Conan, he manages to sneak some jokes through the network censorship system and appeal to the cheeky lad in all of us. Wait. There’s a cheeky lad in …
CMT is staying in business with the “Blue Collar Comedy” crew…and Lisa Lampanelli? That’s what happened when the Country Music Television channel green-lighted a 13-episode order for the animated sitcom, Bounty Hunters, which follows Larry the Cable Guy, Jeff Foxworthy, Bill Engvall and Lampanelli as animated versions of themselves who …
Cy Amundson would make a great uncle. At least compared to his sister. Or his best friend. You’ll learn this and more in Amundson’s debut performance on Conan. Roll the clip!
It’s a big month for past, present and future fans of FOX’s sketch comedy show, In Living Color, as the network plans to celebrate the anniversary of its star-making series and also launch a new edition to hopefully do the same for today’s young comedic actors. Who is FOX and host, …
