The Definitive Guide to Comedy
I'm beginning to understand how someone like Nikki Finke can become an Internet crank who stays inside like a hermit and yells TOLDJA! everytime her scoops get re-reported by the "mainstream" media. For the dozen or so of you who read The Comic's Comic on a daily basis, my apologies …
I first reported on Monday that I was hearing whispers that Comedy Central might not be renewing The Jeff Dunham Show, the ventriloquist's clunky sitcom that had Dunham and his puppets heckling "real people" in the "real world." And now I'm hearing that, despite what Comedy Central told me, Dunham's …
The Jews already have a story about a Hanukkah miracle, with oil lasting eight crazy nights. Can a pair of Boston Jewish ladies stage another miracle by turning their TV pilot on Showtime into something more, with only two airings planned after midnight at the end of the year? Ask …
It's the most wonderful time of the year for Saturday Night Live, or so you might think. End of the calendar year. Christmas on the brains. The combination sometimes makes for some comedy magic. I remember a few years ago, attending a friend of a friend's Christmas party, when everyone …
Tonight on NBC, Saturday Night Live went primetime with "A Very Gilly Christmas," with Kristen Wiig's Gilly character introducing clip packages and performing in small sketches with Will Forte as her principal foil. Some funny highlights from the vault. But here are two blasts from the past that really take …
The Screen Actors Guild announced its nominations from calendar year 2009 today, and once again, I may not be the only person wondering why the people who care most about acting are willing to separate TV shows into drama and comedy categories, but not the movies. You'd think they'd give …
Just when you thought Stephen Colbert had had a pretty good year as a parody of a TV news blowhard, he has to go and up the ante, and then up the ante again! If you haven't yet watched Colbert rap his own suburban lyrics with Alicia Keys on a …
They grow up so fast, don't they? Kidding. Sort of. It feels like just four months ago that Myq Kaplan was a "new face" at Montreal for Just For Laughs, and here he is making his network TV debut performing stand-up comedy on The Tonight Show with Conan O'Brien! Kaplan …
Why did some people run to YouTube and Howard Stern to claim that comedians Louis CK and Nick DiPaolo had gotten into a fight last night at The Comedy Cellar? Beats me! Louis CK had said he was filming scenes for his upcoming FX sitcom yesterday, telling anyone who wanted to …
Brooklyn native Gary David Goldberg will receive the Herb Sargent Award for Comedy Excellence from the Writers Guild of America, the WGA-East announced yesterday. Goldberg got his start as a TV writer on The Bob Newhart Show, and came into his own and became known far and wide for his …