The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Who says it has to be Friday to tell you about people worth following on Twitter? Yes, Follow Friday. I get it. We all get it. But with all the talk about Conan O'Brien's live theater tour of North America this spring, I thought it'd be more than appropriate to …
Comedy nerds were abuzz today that the SPIKE cable network may have canceled Players, the inventive and delightful improvised comedy from the minds of the UCB's Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts and friends. Walsh himself went to Twitter tonight to say: Not exactly. He wrote: "to all Players fans, Spike is …
On may way into Gotham Comedy Club last night to see a show, I saw a half-dozen people sitting along the sidewalk inside parade barricades. They couldn't be. No. Not already? Yes. Already. The "open call" auditions for NBC's Last Comic Standing 7 happen at Gotham on Sunday. But a …
Amy Schumer made it pretty far on Last Comic Standing a few years ago, and in a few weeks, she'll have her first Comedy Central Presents on the TV. So she decided to hit up her fellow stand-up comedians at the Comedy Cellar in NYC for some testimonials. Should be …
Have you felt like you wanted to experience Paul Provenza's live late-night chat sessions with famous comedians at Montreal's Just For Laughs festival but never had the know-how to get a ticket for it? Well, starting this June, you'll be able to peek behind this proverbial curtain, as Showtime debuts …
Congratulations to rising stand-up comedian Kumail Nanjiani, who got cast today in the TBS hourlong comedy pilot, Franklin & Bash. "I play a nerdy hyper intelligent lawyer who is an extreme germophobe," Nanjiani told me today. "So far, I got the nerd part down." TBS lifted the contingency on the …
Last night's edition of Late Night with Jimmy Fallon saw two of the Bee Gees, Robin and Barry Gibb, confront the comedian who had lampooned them with help from Justin Timberlake on multiple episodes of Saturday Night Live. Well, "confront" and "lampooned" are strong words, because the brothers Gibb were …
On tonight's Late Show, Jimmy Kimmel sat down with David Letterman as they reminisced about roasting Jay Leno over the comedy coals. Just when you thought you had forgotten all about the "late night wars" of 2010…roll the clip!
Good news for comedy fans came late Sunday night with a series order and some additional casting news. First off, let me say how happy I am that USA ordered 11 episodes, along with the 90-minute pilot for new drama Facing Kate, which stars Sarah Shahi and co-stars comedian/actor Baron …
With all of the talk last week about Betty White anchoring the mother of all Mother's Day editions of Saturday Night Live in May with several former female SNL cast members helping out, it's maybe a good a time as any to talk about the role women play on SNL. …