The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Every time Charles Barkley hosts Saturday Night Live, an angel gets his wings. No. That’s not right. Every time Barkley hosts SNL, NBC programs a big football game on Saturday that inevitably goes late, thereby ruining East Coast DVRs of viewers who spend their Saturday nights out on the town. …
As mobile phones have become more mobile, and equipped with smaller and more powerful video cameras, fans attending live shows have decided that they want to take these cameraphones out of their pockets and hold them up to record the action. But why? Before I attempt to answer my own …
I didn’t know Angelo Bowers, but many comedians working in Los Angeles today did. They reported sadly last night that Bowers died after being struck by a drunk driver. Another comedian, Josh Adam Meyers, was in the car with Bowers and was in a nearby hospital in critical condition as of …
Want to look at a couple of dozen photos showing what it’s like to work with Conan O’Brien on his TBS show, Conan? Congrats! I’ve got that link right here!
Midseason TV begins in earnest this week, although it’s difficult to use the word “earnest” when the big four networks are subjecting us to blights upon humanity such as Work It and ¡Rob! How could these shows make it past the initial pitch meeting, much less produce a pilot, and then …
You may not know about it or need it now, but The Actors Fund could help you out in the long run. When Comedy Central established The Comedy Awards last year, the network also created The American Comedy Fund specifically to help members of the comedy community (related reading: See …
Patton Oswalt has reached that level of success where he’s compelled to say up top, “Nothing I’m going to say will live up to that!” to lessen the audience’s expectations. Which doesn’t matter because the opening applause is but one of many breaks during his latest hourlong set, “Finest Hour,” out …
The second season of IFC’s The Increasingly Poor Decisions of Todd Margaret begins on Jan. 6, 2012. But if you haven’t watched the first season, then no need to fear about tracking down all of the episodes. Because Taiwan’s Next Media Animation can get you all caught up in just a …
It’s never too late for a bonus Christmas present, and what’s tastier than peaches and cobbler? Especially when it comes to you straight from the mouth of Reggie Watts! The Comic’s Comic exclusively presents “Peaches & Cobbler,” a track from “On Life and Quantum Entanglement,” the new live performance from …
No matter your feelings about the American version of The Office on NBC — love it, loathe it, or used to love it but have become disappointed in it over time (which is how I feel this current season) — this is the perfect time to revisit the original UK …
