The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Lucille Ball would have turned 100 on Saturday, Aug. 6. To celebrate her legacy, LIFE magazine at life.com has posted a gallery of never-before-published photographs of the comedienne. In this 1958 photo by Leonard McCombe for TIME & LIFE Pictures, we see Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball posing in front …
If you’re old enough to remember a time before cable television, when your TV had about four stations on it, Jerry Lewis and “Jerry’s Kids” took over your Labor Day weekend for decades. But no more. The Muscular Dystrophy Association announced yesterday that it had severed ties with Jerry Lewis. …
It’s not going to be quite as salacious as the video, “Two Girls One Cup,” nor is it going to be as plentiful as The Kids in the Hall, but it will be Two Kids One Hall as KITH’s Scott Thompson and Kevin McDonald embark on a nationwide tour of comedy …
Craig Ferguson loves to have a loosey-goosey attitude on the set of his late-night talk show for CBS, but this week takes things to another level. Or should I say, another country entirely. This week’s episodes come to us from Paris, where Ferguson recently went on a working vacation. On …
The fourth and final group of quarterfinalists performed last night on NBC’s America’s Got Talent, and that left impersonator Melissa Villasenor as the last comedian remaining in this summer’s competition. For her performance, she chose to include the voices of judge Sharon Osbourne and singer Mariah Carey (wife of host …
After The Comic’s Comic reported exclusively that The Onion News Network series on IFC was facing a work stoppage due to a lack of union protections for its writing staff, comes word that the seven writers on the cable TV series have earned the right to join the WGA-East, and …
In a statement this afternoon, BET announced the “indefinite hiatus” and end to its late-night talk show, The Mo’Nique Show. The next “new” episode airs on Tuesday at 11 p.m. with two weeks remaining on the schedule. But that’s that. “Mo’Nique Hicks and ‘The Mo’Nique Show’ are important to the …
More and more music festivals are adding comedians into the mix, and November’s FunFunFun Fest in Austin, Texas, is another example of such. The lineup for the four stages at FFF 2011 — Nov. 4-6 — were announced today, with the prospect of additional names to be added. Here’s a …
Andy Kindler carried his notes plus the book “How to be Funny” under his right arm — “It’s a classic!” Kindler told The Comic’s Comic as he walked into the Grand Salon of the Montreal Hyatt to deliver his 2011 State of the Industry address to the Just For Laughs Comedy …
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart‘s Jon Stewart joined Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, U.S. Navy Adm. Mike Mullen, along with NBA star Karl Malone and magician David Blaine for Mullen’s quick, unannounced weekend visit to the American soldiers serving in Afghanistan. What did you do last weekend? …
