The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Do you have a lucky shirt for stand-up, or particularly for TV appearances? Does Henry Cho? I ask because when he popped up on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson this week, it looked like he went with the same collared shirt he wore on Ferguson last year. Perhaps it’s …
Some comedians like to push the envelope. Tig Notaro likes to push the stool. No, really. Tig showed us what she means last night on Conan. Conan seems to have found its own personality in finding comedians it likes and featuring them multiple times. Count Notaro among those favorites. Roll …
Patton Oswalt is making the late-night TV rounds to promote his new movie, Young Adult, but when he hit Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Oswalt wanted to reveal something about his first professional acting gig as a recurring guest star on King of Queens. Namely, that the writers room was …
Did you know Steve Buscemi was funny? If you’ve watched an Adam Sandler movie any time in the past decade or more, then probably. Or perhaps you just thought his portrayals of mobsters and old-timey gangsters in The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire were funny ha-ha in addition to funny weird. …
“Do you win anything here?” Cyndi Lauper asks during the second episode of Would You Rather…? with Graham Norton. That’s the main and maybe only thing holding up BBC America’s introduction of comedy panel “game shows” to the States. Filmed in New York City before live studio audiences, Would You Rather…? …
Last night whilst watching NBC’s Thursday-night comedy lineup, this holiday commercial for Target appeared and brought Chris Gethard into my home (and probably yours). Roll it! In related news, Gethard has a new memoir/autobiographical book of essays coming out in January 2012, titled A Bad Idea I’m About to Do: …
Laurie Kilmartin performed on last year’s edition of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and though she didn’t win the big prize there, she did receive a nice parting gift not too long afterward: A job as a writer for Conan on TBS. On Thursday night’s show, Kilmartin performed stand-up on Conan, …
Michael Kosta changed the way I look at women after the very first stand-up set of his that I saw several years ago. The other night on Conan, Kosta let everybody in on the fact that “hot chicks” lead very different lives and experiences than the rest of us, whether …
Robert Weide achieved unprecedented access to Woody Allen over the past couple of years, and with it, produced this fantastic documentary about the 75-year-old (he turns 76 on Dec. 1) comedian-filmmaker’s life. So much footage from rare interviews with him from decades ago that you probably never saw nor remembered, …
Artie Lange’s comeback continued alongside new sports radio partner Nick DiPaolo last night as they appeared together on Jimmy Kimmel Live. Lange talks about his rehab in the second clip. Roll the clips!
