The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Would you like to play a game? And I don't mean global thermonuclear war. I mean, how'd you like to guess a few things that happened last night on Saturday Night Live? Such as…how many SNL writers who aren't part of the on-air cast got to appear either live or …
My day has been kinda not what I expected. Same goes for anyone with a late-night TV show, except different. I'm just getting around to posting new things on the Internet today, so here is something from last night's edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live, in which Kimmel took questions from …
Talk about the "gift" that keeps on giving. I've heard that both Jimmy Fallon and Conan O'Brien will make remarks tonight about the swirling rumors of reshuffling of the NBC late-night lineup, but they'll be later in the night. In less than an hour, they'll have to hear from Jay …
Ready for six episodes of high-quality stand-up comedy? Ready or not, Comedy Central is bringing it to you over its television network at 11 p.m. Fridays, starting tonight with the debut of John Oliver's New York Stand-Up Show. Oliver, best known as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon …
Check this out! HBO's online schedule finally has a home for the 10 half-hours, which has turned into 12 weeks according to what HBO tells me, of new sketch comedy on TV thanks to Funny or Die, in their series Funny or Die Presents. It all premieres at midnight Friday …
With all of the hullaballoo yesterday about what NBC may or may not do with its late-night TV lineup, you also may have been interested to know what the main competition over on CBS had to say about this. David Letterman had made almost nightly jokes about Jay Leno's 10 …
Here's something. The Jay Leno Show doesn't even air on the East Coast for another 20 minutes or so, but the site already has posted video of Leno mocking NBC and rumors of his imminent demise and/or cancellation (or whatever is going to happen to him and his show after …
Oh, you Internet. Silly, silly Internet. How silly? Silly enough that The Wrap can say a "random website" announced NBC would cancel Jay Leno's primetime show based upon speculation — NBC has ordered more new TV pilots than it has in about seven years, plus NBC owned-and-operated affiliates ain't happy …
A generation of aspiring stand-up comedians have worked far, far behind-the-scenes of late-night TV comedy, contributing jokes as freelancers via fax. Fax? FAX! For you kids, a fax machine sent facsimile paper copies of your paper to someone else over the phone lines. Technology. If you were one of the …
The High Road is an amusing documentary on cable channel/network G4 that follows Doug Benson and his opening act, Graham Elwood, from Los Angeles to Boise and Spokane for road comedy gigs. You also see him walking out of a Star Trek screening in Boise to call in to Comedy …