The Definitive Guide to Comedy
MAD Magazine gets a new shot at TV life tonight with the Labor Day series premiere of MAD on the Cartoon Network, with 26 episodes airing Mondays in the 8:30 p.m. slot that kicks off an earlier version of the net's Adult Swim block. I spoke to the show's producers, …
Not sure about the timing of this booking, since his book has been out for more than a year and went paperback in July, but author William Knoedelseder went on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson to talk with Ferguson about his book, "I'm Dying Up Here: Heartbreak and High …
If people were excited to hear that Saturday Night Live had hired three new cast members to featured player status (as well as a number of new writers), then what will they have to say when news drops that SNL has its eyes on giving a big break to another …
Despite what the folks at The Hollywood Reporter say, or my best intentions to get Conan O'Brien to name his new show Team CoCo A GoGo, the talk-show host's new talk show on TBS will be called exactly what the ads already have been calling it. See the ad? If …
Before you get too excited by thinking I've rounded up some interviews with the brand-new members of Saturday Night Live, let's remember that Will Forte just left the cast and moved back to California. The folks at JoBlo got on the horn with Will Forte, and he told them that …
Hunter Stephenson reports for VICE from the Puerto Rico sets of Eastbound & Down's second season, officially subtitled "Season Dos: Deep Inside Mexico." Here's a quick tease from HBO with Kenny Powers riding that moped:
No offense to Margaret Cho, who was named to the cast of competitors for the 11th edition of ABC's Dancing with the Stars, which kicks off in September 2010, but unless she decides to take this seriously, I'm not holding out much hope for her to actually win or come …
Saturday Night Live continues to add new people to the roster in advance of its upcoming 36th season, which begins Sept. 25, 2010. We learned a few days ago that Chicago comedian Tom Flanigan got hired as a writer, and now I can also tell you that Los Angeles comedian Heather …
It's the end of August, which has become the silly season for Saturday Night Live, in which comedy fans obsess over every single detail of the casting of both on-air talent and writing staffers — helped, in part, by the show's insistence on keeping current employees mostly in the dark …
Jimmy Fallon, in Los Angeles this week preparing to host the Emmys this coming Sunday, showed up last night on the set of America's Got Talent to show off some of his talent impersonating various other comedians. As in: Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, Robin Williams, Norm MacDonald, Gilbert …