The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Tim Minchin's current two-hour show is great. Fantastic. Wonderful. Magical. As I've said and written before, he's much more than a musical comedian. I saw him last week in New York City, and there's something really deep to what he manages to weave into his comedy and music. If you're in …
Conan O'Brien misspoke last night. Jen Kirkman's new stand-up comedy CD isn't out until next week, but she is funny, as you can see in this performance of hers on Conan, in which she talks about marriage, murder and the problem with kids who don't want to know about what …
The broadcast networks (and some cable networks) make their upfront presentations to the media and advertisers next week in New York City, and with NBC up first on Monday, the Peacock network now owned by Comcast has gone ahead and gone deep into new sitcoms, ordering six pilots to series. …
Nobody wants to see more of Donald Trump on television, and yet, there he is, the Golden Combover himself, day after day, shouting about something or other but mostly about himself. So it was with great reluctance last weekend that I found myself watching the first hour of The Celebrity …
Reese Waters was supposed to be on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson earlier this month, but got bumped to last Friday. In his network TV debut, Waters jokes about trying to quit smoking and his relationship with his ex-girlfriend (fun fact: who also is a stand-up comedian). Another fun …
Al Madrigal stopped by Conan last night and described his day with a day laborer. No. Not his day as a day laborer. With one. Why did you read it the wrong way? Why did I type it the right way and then go off on this tangent? Stop looking …
The Daytime Entertainment Emmys don't usually have much to honor comedy, outside of the comedians who host talk shows or game shows. But Comedy Central went big this past year with the live Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear on Washington, D.C., and they could go home with four Emmys …
Here's something you don't see all that often. It's comedian Albert Brooks on a talk show in 2011! Then again, Brooks recently did join Twitter, too, to promote his new book. So perhaps it's not as much of a surprise. Still enjoyable, though. Even if he sold most of his …
Saturday Night Live writer John Mulaney clued us in today that a sketch he'd written with Simon Rich and Marika Sawyer got "cut for time" last weekend with host Tina Fey. But I recall being in the audience for the dress rehearsal of last season's SNL that Tina Fey hosted …
Kid Rock has agreed to let Comedy Central assemble a roster of comedians and fame-seekers to make fun of him this summer as the next "victim" of a roast. Wait. Didn't the most recent roast of Donald Trump happen just a few months ago? Yes. Yes, it did. Nevertheless, we're …