The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Some TV viewers were taken aback last night watching Harrison Ford on Conan, not just because people thought he might have been on medication of some sort or another, but because he said the word "shit" on TV, and nobody bleeped it. Conan O'Brien was talking to Ford about Capt. …
On MTV's World of Jenks, filmmaker Andrew Jenks picks a different subject to follow around and document to show what life is like for us now. Last night's episode found Jenks following rising stand-up comedian Dan St. Germain through New York City's open mic and indie comedy scene as he …
Comedy Central debuted its "Hot List" special last year, and named up-and-comers such as Aziz Ansari, Donald Glover, Nick Kroll and Whitney Cummings to it. Pretty hot, right? They're doing it again at the end of 2010, and here's who they've pegged as the hot comics of the year: Pete …
Comical Radio, which airs Fridays on WBMB 87.9 FM in Manhattan and also streams live online via WBMB, Cringe Humor Radio and elsewhere, has expanded its comedy/talk podcast schedule with five new shows throughout the week. Here's the new, updated schedule (all times Eastern): Monday: 5:30 to 7 p.m., "Hangin with …
NBC just released its midseason schedule for January through May 2011, and it's going back to comedy at 10 p.m., but just on Thursdays, and no, it doesn't involve Jay Leno. Instead, NBC will hope to re-establish its "Must-See TV" moniker by going back-to-back sitcoms for all three hours on …
In case you missed it last night, PBS has thankfully put the entire telecast online from The Kennedy Center's honoring of Tina Fey with the Mark Twain Prize. Among the highlights: Alec Baldwin pretending to be a resurrected Mark Twain; Lorne Michaels' heartfelt speech about Fey; and Fey's acceptance speech, …
We all heard and saw a lot of press about late-night TV in the past week, but would you believe that the person who got the most beneficial coverage in the past seven days was the guy you'd least suspect? Unless you were considering Carson Daly. And why would you …
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The comedy management team of MacDonald-Murray experienced its own Mad Men plotline this summer, and it didn't involve booze. Not exactly. While the fictional Sterling Cooper Draper Pryce was facing a crisis over the loss of its biggest client, Lucky Strike, the very real MacDonald-Murray saw its biggest client, the …
You'd like to think that you can just harness the power of the Internet and become a success story, and that's certainly the case for most comedians today. You know, the ol' short-hand of Dane Cook getting 2 million MySpace friends and turning that into millions of dollars, movies and …