The Definitive Guide to Comedy
For his next TV comedy trick, Ricky Gervais will try to make Americans laugh not via cable TV nor TV at all, but rather, Netflix. The online streaming service announced late Wednesday that it had acquired the U.S. rights to broadcast the upcoming Gervais series, Derek, in 2013. Gervais plays …
W. Kamau Bell had planned to leverage the first season of his FX late-night talk show into a successful stand-up comedy tour this fall. Turns out FX had even better plans for Bell, telling him to postpone that tour and keep Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell going for another …
Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly have become fairly chummy over the past few years, appearing on each other’s basic cable commentary programs to plug their latest books (as O’Reilly has done on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) or just to smack-talk each other about the credibility of …
Since the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences couldn’t possibly hand out all of the Emmys during an Emmys telecast without going on for days and days, they still relegate many of the categories to a non-televised ceremony the weekend previous to the weekend you’ll be live-Tweeting your own commentary …
With the fifth annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival underway in Brooklyn this weekend, and more festivals such as the first-ever RIOT Los Angeles coming in the next few days, weeks and months, perhaps it’s best to look forward to Fall 2012 and all of the comedy festivals, confabs and celebrations …
If you live and/or work in Hollywood, then you know — or at least have heard the joke — that everyone there is in show business, wants to be in show business, or used to be in show business but now just sits on the beach and stares out at …
For many years, David Letterman presided over a late-night TV segment called “Stupid Pet Tricks.” Letterman’s show would fly in pet owners and their pets to have them show off their, well, stupid tricks they had learned. Simple. Stupid. Fun. In 2012, however, television viewers in both the United Kingdom …
Ronna Glickman and Beverly Kahn are the fictional best-selling co-authors of You’ll Do a Little Better Next Time: A Guide to Marriage and Re-marriage for Jewish Singles. In real life, Ronna and Beverly are comedians Jessica Chaffin and Jamie Denbo, friends from the Boston area who have taken their accents west …
Has it been five years already? The fifth annual Eugene Mirman Comedy Festival kicks off Thursday night in Brooklyn’s Gowanus and Park Slope neighborhoods, and it has become a full-fledged tradition in the New York City comedy scene that most of its shows already are sold out. Mirman said yesterday …
Sometimes an open call really is just that: An open call. So, here goes. David Brenner, the 76-year-old stand-up comedian who racked up 158 appearances on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson — more than any other comedian/guest — is looking for a new opening act. Specifically, according to the …
