The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In case you missed it, this week on ABC’s new episode of Celebrity Wife Swap, comedian Gilbert Gottfried and comedic actor Alan Thicke spent time in the other man’s shoes and households, living with the other man’s wife. Actually, it’s the wives who switch homes and families, and find out …
Scott Kennedy died unexpectedly on Thursday. The stand-up comedian, known for leading dozens of stand-up comedy tours to American military bases in Iraq and Afghanistan over the past decade, was in his 40s. Scott Kennedy began his comedy career in his hometown of Lubbock, Texas, in 1989, when a friend entered …
Hal “Chickie” Spear, a stand-up comedian and TV writer who penned jokes for Jay Leno, Arsenio Hall, Howie Mandel, Richard Jeni and others, died from a heart attack Monday in Las Vegas. Spear, born Hal Saperstein and raised in Merrick, NY, was in his late 40s. Spear was working the …
Just when you thought it was safe to go back into the pool… ABC, which used to bring us Superstars on Saturday mornings a generation ago, is broadening the definition of athlete and celebrity while also narrowing the pool of athletic competitions to the diving pool with the debut next …
Louis C.K. gets to have his HBO trailer and mock it, too, in this clip promoting his latest stand-up comedy special, “Oh My God,” premiering on April 13, 2013. Roll the clip!
Here’s a clip you didn’t see on the first two seasons of FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, because it didn’t appear in any of those episodes! It’s Janine Brito, “dandy lesbian dandy” writer for the show, apologizing last year on behalf of Tracy Morgan, in the voice and …
If Jon Stewart looks and sounds a bit more British this summer, that’s because John Oliver will be playing the role of “Jon Stewart” in Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Stewart is taking eight weeks off from the show this summer (plus the additional four weeks the show …
Last week’s episode of What Not To Wear on TLC opened with scenes shot in Gotham Comedy Club, where, for reasons that are never fully explained, hosts Stacy London and Clinton Kelly decide to surprise former Family Ties child star Tina Yothers. By roasting her from the audience. That’s not …
“Happy employees = happy customers. Happy customers = happy shareholders.” That’s what Shaquille O’Neal told CBS News he had learned by May 2012, when he received his Doctorate in Education degree from Barry University, a private Catholic college in Miami. Casual observers — such as the upward of 6.8 million …
A few months ago, comedy director Jason Woliner decided to launch his own novelty T-shirt business, selling a parody of the red Che Guevara T-shirts that replaced Che’s face with that of Jay Leno. But he quickly backtracked from his “Che Leno” shirt, replacing it with a “Jay Guevara” shirt, …
