The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Melissa Villasenor, a "new face" in Montreal last summer who also has auditioned for Saturday Night Live, got a chance to showcase several of her celebrity impersonations on another NBC series, America's Got Talent. Here is Villasenor on tonight's episode from the Seattle auditions, in which she calmly breaks out …
The ninth annual Los Angeles Improv Comedy Festival started last night at iO West, and it's attracted plenty of big names in comedy and improvisation. Joel McHale — who was a star of Seattle's TheatreSports before moving to L.A. — performed last night. Drew Carey is on the bill tonight …
The hot hippie music and comedy festival that is Bonnaroo starts on Thursday in the fields of Tennessee, but if you cannot make it there this year, then you still can enjoy at least one night of comedy from wherever you also enjoy an Internet connection. Comedy Central will have …
Plenty of comedians have performed on game shows, and plenty of comedians have married other comedians, but few are the comedy couples who have appeared on TV game shows together. Count Abbi Crutchfield and Luke Thayer as one of those couples. They taped an episode of The Newlywed Game for GSN …
They say Canada is friendly, eh? Well, perhaps not as much for five nights later this month, as the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents the fourth annual Sketch Com-Ageddon. Last year‚Äôs champs, Smells Like the 80s, will face 44 other sketch troupes in nine rounds of comedy competition at Comedy …
SiriusXM radio’s Raw Dog Comedy Channel will get a little more upright on Saturday nights, as it adds a weekly hourlong live radio show from the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre. The shows aren’t exactly live, but they will be recorded in front of the UCB’s usual live audiences in New …
The summer blockbuster movie season usually brings about at least one box-office smash that also destroys at least one major city (or at least makes it seem that way, thanks to special effects), and more often than not, the city that gets plowed over is New York City. Robbie Collier …
Chris Hardwick is having a very productive 2011, and his growing Nerdist Industries empire now has newsletter publisher GeekChicDaily as a partner in that expansion. ‚ÄúI envision a Nerdtopia where video games are free, Cheetos are currency, and robot concubines sate our sexual thirsts. I am confident that Peter Levin, his …
Tom Rhodes has been a world traveler for several years now — he was living in Amsterdam when I met him almost a decade ago — but back in 1995, he had the long hair that you remember from his NBC sitcom Mr. Rhodes, and a lanky frame. Rhodes recently …
The inaugural Critics' Choice Television Awards announced their first slate of nominees today, and for those of you who bemoan the ritualistic snubbing of great TV comedies such as Louie, Community, Parks and Rec and Archer, well, no snubbing here! But the "critics" – who include correspondents from Extra, Access Hollywood, …