The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Your eyes are not deceiving you. That’s stand-up comedian Dan St. Germain welcoming Howard Stern to NBC’s America’s Got Talent in this promo spot which debuted during the second quarter of Super Bowl XLVI. Roll the clip!
Saturday Night Live returned from a mid-winter break minus one writer (interesting?!) and also without featured player Paul Brittain (what now?), who left the cast to pursue other opportunities. Someone please make sure the editing booth knew to adjust the opening credits, and someone else hold Don Pardo’s hand to …
Must be the end of Eddie Brill’s tenure as booker for The Late Show, because Jake Johannsen showed up again only a few months after his previous Letterman gig. In this clip, you’ll see/hear him talk about the idea of making a baby, as well as the new game of Password, …
Mark Forward is from Canada, but please, don’t hold that against him. In his first appearance on American TV, Forward performed on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Ferguson is from Scotland. Wonder if they bonded over talk about the Queen? In the meantime, Forward jokes about the lack of …
Some Web videos go viral for being awful and then turn those mediocre people into rich and famous celebrities. Way to go all Opposite Day, Internet haters! Thankfully, the success of Marcel the Shell with Shoes On is a wonderful thing created by truly talented and funny people, and has …
So Roseanne Barr went onto her social networks on Thursday night to announce she had filed papers with the FEC to run for the Green Party nomination for president of the United States in the 2012 election. But has she, really? I’m not doubting her on filing the official paperwork, …
Paul Brittain up and left Saturday Night Live in the middle of his second season. Why? Entertainment Weekly quoted a source close to Brittain that claimed he “had the opportunity to pursue other projects, and he and the show parted ways amicably.” Well, OK. Brittain put one of his pre-SNL …
There are many injustices in the comedy world. One of the biggest remains the fact that we no longer have Phil Hartman’s comedic brilliance to enjoy in new and wonderful roles. Another is realizing that the late Hartman — star of Saturday Night Live, NewsRadio, The Simpsons and more — …
If you think the late-night talk-show format is dead, then perhaps you may be interested to hear about Eric Andre’s new show on Adult Swim, with Hannibal Buress as his sidekick. Adult Swim announced production of The Eric Andre Show, a parody of late-night talkers with Buress playing Andre’s “apathetic …
John Mulaney used to tell the greatest bit that defined all Law & Order stand-up bits. NBC no longer makes new episodes of Law & Order, but the network still has Law & Order: SVU on the schedule, and still has Ice-T on the case as a detective, which amuses Mulaney …
