The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Ricky Gervais is friends with Louis CK, who is friends with Chris Rock, who is friends with Jerry Seinfeld. Put these four friends together in a room and let them talk shop for 50 minutes about comedy. That's not a show about nothing. That's Talking Funny, which premieres tonight on …
Joe DeVito returned to perform again last night on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson, and now that he's single at 42, he finds himself examining what he has learned about women and dating. This clip also features a rare plug for Broadway Comedy Club in NYC. DeVito will be …
The Hollywood Reporter makes Lorne Michaels its cover story this week, and since it's Easter, they also asked illustrator Edel Rodriguez to depict Lorne and the SNL gang as the Last Supper. Which makes Lorne essentially Jesus Christ SNL Superstar, right? From left to right: Jimmy Fallon, Amy Poehler, Bill …
Craig Rowin, the comedian and Upright Citizens Brigade improviser who recently grabbed a lot of press and attention when he boldly asked everyone via YouTube to give him $1 million and received it (only to reveal it was all a hoax), is now writing the questions for the ABC game …
Statette delivers the hard stats via this graphic. Don't shoot the messengers! NOTE: This list does not include the writing staffs for George Lopez (Lopez Tonight, TBS) or Mo'Nique (The Mo'Nique Show, BET). And if you want to really jump into the rabbit hole, try to break down the stats …
The YouTube description by CBS of Tommy Johnagin's performance on Friday's Late Show with David Letterman reads, "Watch the comedian's entire stand-up act from Friday, April 15, 2011." Well, that's not entirely true. The clip cuts off Johnagin's opening remarks of self-deprecation, in which he points out that he was the …
Maz Jobrani is an Iranian-American with an American passport. That's not always as helpful as he'd like it to be, however, as he explains in this performance last night on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Roll it!
Fun facts. That's what Ryan Stout likes to employ in his humor, and also what he did in his late-night TV debut the other night on Conan. Roll it!
So that Charlie Sheen clip on GSN's Drew Carey's Improv-A-Ganza aired last night. I wish this had aired months ago. Because then, anyone who wondered about Charlie Sheen's live comedy skills could have seen that he had none. And anyone who wanted to help Charlie Sheen mount a live comedy …
Hopeful thoughts go out to Eddie Pepitone, Fahim Anwar and the rest of the cast of NBC's sitcom pilot, Family Practice, which tapes tonight before a live studio audience in Studio City, Calif. The potential sitcom stars Andrew J. West as a doctor who leaves his job to return home …