The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Bill Cosby is enough of a living legend to receive first-guest status from David Letterman and also perform his stand-up before hitting the panel. During his stand-up, watch as it’s interesting how Letterman’s audience is more onboard with the idea of fried turkeys than he is. During his panel, Cosby …
Dave Attell has made the late-night TV rounds before, both as a host and as a stand-up comedian. But I cannot recall him ever doing panel with Jay Leno before, and certainly not with his ever-growing hairdo flowing out from underneath his ball cap — and most especially not whilst …
In interviews over the years, members of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre often have referred to their organization as “the Fugazi of comedy.” It was no accident, then, that Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye was chosen to deliver the monologues for a planned special reunion of the UCB’s founding four to …
Most man-on-the-street videos make me go, oh, no, not another man-on-the-street video. But this one made me laugh out loud in the first minute. Which is probably why Fuse had no qualms green-lighting this series from Funny or Die that sends Billy Eichner out on the streets for a game …
The Kennedy Center honored Will Ferrell this year with the annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The ceremony, which taped last month in Washington, D.C., and aired on PBS on Oct. 31, featured Ed Asner, Jack Black, Matthew Broderick, Adam McKay, Conan O’Brien, John C. Reilly, Paul Rudd, Molly Shannon …
Conan O’Brien and his late-night crew triumphantly returned to New York City this week, and Reggie Watts — who toured with Conan during his TV break way back when it wasn’t so long ago — welcomed him back to the city by performing that by-gone ditty, “The Boys are Back …
In case you missed it Friday night, and of course you did, because why would you be at home on a Friday night watching MSNBC, then you missed Sarah Silverman telling Rachel Maddow all about her planned “Live from N*****head (Stripping the Paint off of Good Old-Fashioned Racism)” comedy show …
Burt Reynolds will play himself in an upcoming episode of Archer, which begins its third animated season on FX in January 2012. Reynolds will play himself in an episode titled “The Man From Jupiter,” a reference to Reynolds’ home of Jupiter, Fla. Reynolds will be dating Agent Sterling Archer’s mother …
If you read this site, then you’re probably more than well aware of Myq Kaplan and his love of turning words and phrases into funny fun times. But until Friday night, you hadn’t been able to see him perform on Late Show with David Letterman. Situation remedied. Kaplan slowed his …
TJ Miller has some more characters to share with you. But first, Miller’s second performance on Conan included a clever nod to an earlier backstage incident during the show, and the recounting of an airplane trip he endured sitting in the middle seat between a father and daughter who made …
