The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The south's largest comedy festival has risen again this week in North Carolina. I haven't been yet, but performers who have done so, returned saying only nice things about the NC Comedy Arts Festival outside of Chapel Hill. Plus, Emo Philips is there this year! Check out the rest of the lineups… …
My condolences go out to the entire Second City family, as their maternal leader for almost all of its first 50 years, Joyce Sloane, died last night. She was 80. The official notice from The Second City on Sloane's passing : We are heartbroken to let you know that Joyce …
Last night's Late Show with David Letterman included some remarkable TV, and not just because it felt like it could have been 1994 again — what with Howard Stern bashing Jay Leno over three segments, and a musical medley from Naughty By Nature (that, yes, including both O.P.P. and Hip-Hop …
Stephen Colbert has gotten portraits of himself into galleries, restaurants and museums. How about in your home? Portrait 5, Stephen (s), the fifth in the series, could be yours for a price. Colbert and Comedy Central announced today that it'd be auctioned off on March 8 by The Phillips de Pury & …
When NBC announced it would move 30 Rock to 10 p.m. Thursdays in 2011, comedy fans breathed a sigh of relief that they wouldn't have to see their Emmy-winning darling go up against, and get beaten by, $#*! My Dad Says on CBS. But have they seen the competition at …
When Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler told Oprah Winfrey on her show yesterday about the time when Aniston turned down Lorne Michaels and the chance to join Saturday Night Live, more than a few people may have been more than a little shocked. Aniston? On SNL? Here's the clip: …
Billy Gardell's new Comedy Central special and upcoming DVD, "Halftime," opens with a shot of the comedian driving across one of Pittsburgh's many Three Rivers bridges as a morning radio program begins. As Gardell told The Comic's Comic, he was this close to taking a job in morning radio back …
In a new op-ed for The Herald in Glasgow, Scotland, Doug Stanhope stands up for comedians everywhere by writing about the nature of offensive comedy, focused on a recent uproar across the pond about a joke Frankie Boyle had told that had offended a woman in the audience. Stanhope defends …
Larry Getlen has written an insightful article on the brilliant comedy, and the tragic addictions, of the late Greg Giraldo. Getlen interviewed comedian Jesse Joyce — who toured with Giraldo and wrote for his many popular Roasts — as well as Jim Norton for the piece. But you won't find …
The new season of Britain's Got Talent has begun the initial audition phase across the pond, and the early hullaballoo is over the harsh criticisms coming from one of its new judges, stand-up comedian Michael McIntyre. For those of us in North America who don't know the name Michael McIntyre, …