The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Uzeyer Novruzov said he was channelling the spirit of the late great Charlie Chaplin for his audition on season 10 of NBC’s America’s Got Talent. But his stunt work up and down and atop a freestanding ladder certainly looked more like something Buster Keaton would have pulled off in one …
In my book, comedian Jeff Dye already won this summer’s celebrity talent challenge on NBC, I Can Do That, since the network announced last week that Dye will join another all-star group for NBC’s Better Late Than Never this August. Dye sees it differently. “I’m very happy that you just …
Plenty of magazines and websites post slideshows of their hottest 50 up-and-coming stand-up comedians to keep an eye out for before they blaze a trail of glory. Only Variety jets its comedians up to Montreal to fete them in front of the show business industry’s agents, managers and producers. Here …
FX’s Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll rolls out July 16, 2015, but a month ahead of the premiere, the cable network is giving us a special sneak peek at the band at the heart of the series with its first music video. This is “Die Trying,” featuring Liz Gillies and Denis Leary. They play …
Monty Python may have bid us all a fond farewell last summer, but that doesn’t mean we cannot have nice things from the old boys from Britain. And so it shall be that John Cleese and Eric Idle will tour as a duo this October in America. This morning they …
“If you can laugh at yourself, you’re one step closer to freedom.” That’s how Jeffrey Ross, aka “The Roastmaster General,” describes his decision to venture into the proverbial belly of the beast and make fun of the prisoners of Brazos County in West Texas near College Station. His mission, filmed …
How confident must producers of Last Comic Standing be of their bounty of stand-up comedians for this summer’s ninth season? Production already wrapped back in April, the show won’t debut on NBC for another six weeks, and yet — tickets already started going on sale to see the LCS finalists …
The Three Stooges can never die, and that’s not just written into their plotlines. Forty years after Moe Howard and Larry Fine both died in 1975, the often-violent slapstick antics of Moe, Larry and Curly continue to be revived and reanimated. Just in the past month, The Three Stooges estate …
Paul Zerdin is an Englishman who has won TV talent shows across the pond in his youth. But Zerdin is older now, and he, just like Englishmen of old, wants to conquer America. And so here he is, auditioning for America’s Got Talent‘s 10th season on NBC. He performed vocal …
Producers for NBC’s America’s Got Talent tried to pull a quick fast one on viewers, making a joke out of the reveal that auditioner Scott Heierman is a bearded lady. But Heierman had the joke on them — since, of course, the 25-year-old who delivers pizzas in Lexington, Kentucky, is …
