The Definitive Guide to Comedy
HBO has a new look online, and that includes a home page for the upcoming series of sketches from Funny or Die called Funny or Die Presents, and along with it, a fresh "Buzz" video that offers insider looks at FoD Presents (Brett Gelman dancing in 1,000 Cats! Leo Allen …
If you're a little bit confused about which Magners Comedy Festival you're planning on attending later this winter, then you wouldn't be the only one. I'd recently seen some comedians asking me and everyone else for their votes via Facebook and emails so they could compete in the Magners fest. …
Tonight is the two-hour A-list telethon for Haiti earthquake relief efforts, airing in primetime on all of the networks and several cable channels. I've also been notified of a few more all-star live benefit shows for Haiti that will be taking place in New York City and Los Angeles. Saturday, …
NBC Universal honcho Jeff Zucker sat down for an exclusive one-on-one chat with Charlie Rose earlier in the week, and it's now up on Hulu.com along with other clips from Rose's PBS talk show. Of course, we know now that tonight is Conan O'Brien's last night as the ill-fated host …
Strange but true in so many ways, when Artie Lange appeared on Late Night with Conan O'Brien in 2008 to promote his book, Lange told Conan that he was making a big mistake in agreeing to move to Los Angeles and taking over the Tonight Show, suggested he let the …
You know that old saying, if it ain't broke, don't fix it? Of course you do. That's why it's an old saying. And if NBC had thought of that in 2004, it wouldn't have found itself doomed to repeat history, which is another unfortunate saying that the network forgot about. …
The rumors are true, and you didn't have to look at NBC's spring and summer schedule to see this was going to happen…Last Comic Standing is coming back out of the network's retirement bin for season 7 sometime later in 2010 (most likely summer). The show has announced open calls …
Harvard may have Conan O'Brien, but Princeton has me. And Matt Iseman. And many other funny people to claim as alumni, but this is a post about my classmate (and reunion chairman) Matt Iseman, who went through medical school at Columbia after our college graduation and was going to be …
Far be it for me not to embed this video that everyone else is sharing this afternoon, as NMA News from Taiwan not only animates the NBC late-night TV kerfuffle, but also has the keen insight into Jeff Zucker's thinking and also which superheroes Zucker, Jay Leno and Conan O'Brien …
The Writers Guild of America announced today it would honor Larry David with the WGA-West's 2010 Paddy Chayefsky Laurel Award for Television, "given to writers who have advanced the literature of television throughout the years and made outstanding contributions to the profession of the television writer." David will receive his …