The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Republished with permission from comedian John Roy (photographed above by Mindy Tucker). Week Two will go online Tuesday, Feb. 19, 2013. Your homework is included below. If you want to catch up with the rest of the “students” in John Roy‘s comedy class, best get started now! My Entirely Free …
Synergy! Bruce Willis stars in A Good Day to Die Hard, the fifth installment in the Die Hard movie franchise. Yes, there are five of them now. And Willis already has said a sixth Die Hard is on the way. Mostly to keep pace with Fast and the Furious movies, …
Congratulations to Neal Brennan, Dov Davidoff, Michael Kosta, Kevin Smith and Ali Wong, who are the first named comedians (and filmmaker/talker — looking at you, Kevin Smith!) to film their own mini-sitcoms for network TV today under the auspices of FOX’s Shortcom Comedy Hour. Smith talked about his deal this …
Hasan Minhaj hosts the new MTV weekly series, Failosophy, premiering Thursday night and shining the harsh spotlight of reality on our everyday failures online — via text message, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and elsewhere else mistakes are made. Minhaj chatted exclusively with The Comic’s Comic to provide some real-life advice …
If you’ve been following the discussion regarding stand-up comedians, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theaters in New York City, and the issue of whether a comedy community can be communal and eschew capitalism whilst also trying to make money to pay bills and employees, too… Or if you haven’t, brush up …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Christina Applegate abruptly left the NBC sitcom Up All Night, while the show is on hiatus to be retooled as a multi-cam for planned new episodes this spring. No word on whether her role will be recast and how that it’ll impact her …
And you thought February was Black History Month. In the world of FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, it’s also a great time to share great moments in black hisptery. And whom better to break it all down for us than Reggie Watts? Or as Watts tells us, “Gilda …
When the surviving members of Monty Python reunited to celebrate their 40th anniversary with a documentary that aired on IFC in 2009, that was a Monty Python reunion. When they lent their voices to a documentary about the late Graham Chapman last year, that was a Python reunion of sorts, though …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Adult Swim announced a special one-off series finale on March 7 for Delocated, starring Jon Glaser. Sarah Silverman will kick off the second annual Wayne Federman International Film Festival when it returns to CineFamily in Los Angeles from Feb. 28 through March 2. Wayne Federman’s …
FX will go live this week for the return of Russell Brand’s late-night talk show, BrandX with Russell Brand. It’s the fourth format for BrandX in its fourth different “season” since June. Almost as if FX executives keep saying to Russell Brand, “We like you. We just don’t like your …
