The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The new TV show from Funny or Die that’s part game show, part hilarious spontaneous prank show on unsuspecting pedestrians — aka Billy on the Street — will debut tonight on Fuse. The cable network has spread advertising throughout New York City. And yet, most New Yorkers won’t get to …
Tim Minchin is one of my favorite comedians, let alone one of my favorite comedians who is equally brilliant as a musical comedian and a musician. Minchin was supposed to be on the telly Friday night in the UK on ITV’s broadcast of The Jonathan Ross Show. Ross and the …
The Louis CK comedy train keeps chugging along and picking up more fans along the way as 2011 comes to a close. This is a different train from the Dane Train, mind you. Anyhow. I’m dumb. Louis CK is smart. His new stand-up special, Live at the Beacon Theater, has …
With late-night TV pretty much done for the year (everyone’s airing repeats or is pre-empted for holiday programming for next week’s final week of 2011), we can take a step back and see who’s doing well and who didn’t make it to year’s end. How your favorite late-night talk show …
Joe Mande returned to perform on Conan last night, which was the first night of Hanukkah. Did you know that? Did you know that and you’re not Jewish? Would you like to hear the story of Hanukkah? Mande will tell you. He’ll also tell you what’s so different about Christmas. …
It’s one thing for a red carpet interviewer to ask Bret McKenzie about a nonexistent Flight of the Conchords movie, as happened last month. It’s another thing to have McKenzie’s “flippant comment” confirmed today by Rhys Darby, who said he himself had sparked rumors of a film four years ago …
Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele have seen those Lexus ads for its “December to Remember” campaign, except they might have missed the point. See how in this new ad for their own upcoming Comedy Central series, Key & Peele. Roll the clip!
It’s December 2011, and just like Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night Live had predicted many years ago, Fallon is back as the host. Fallon has returned a couple of times previously in cameos to join Justin Timberlake in the Barry Gibb Talk Show sketches, but this is different. For one …
Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson has the unusual habit of recording its stand-up comedian performances and holding them, sometimes for months, before airing them. Ferguson’s free-wheeling nature makes it more difficult to predict how much free time will be left after he finishes his celebrity interviews, so this allows …
Well, blimey mate! Check out this cheeky monkey who earned himself a six-episode order for a late-night series of specials. On cable. It’s Russell Brand, who received the series order from FX on Thursday. Details: Brand will star in six half-hour episodes of “an unscripted late night series” to debut …
