The Definitive Guide to Comedy
This is shaping up to be the screwiest finale in Last Comic Standing since the whodunit that ended season three’s "all-star" challenge round. For one thing, will anyone in the New York City area find out who won? NBC says the finale airs tonight from 8 p.m. to 9:30 p.m., …
A sixth Last Comic Standing will be named tonight on NBC (well, that’s the plan, anyhow), so let’s check my comedy club calendar and see what the first five winners are up to this weekend… Dat Phan is at the Improv in Temecula, Calif., tonight through Saturday.John Heffron is taping …
So, yes, Robin Williams is heading back out on the road for an official stand-up comedy tour this fall, starting Sept. 25 in Minneapolis and ending two months later in Boston. He has quietly been working on new material between breaks from movie making, including surprise drop-ins in New York …
The 92nd Street Y once again brings comedy to the Upper East Side as only the 92Y does it, announcing a slate of upcoming programming for the fall, including: Sept. 9: Warren Adler and Stewie Stone on the influence of the Borscht Belt comedians on mainstream American humorSept. 15: Alan …
Bob Odenkirk laid down the news tonight that he and David Cross have decided to scrap their own HBO pilot that played with sitcom conventions, called "David’s Situation." Although they all thought the pilot succeeded, they felt that the format they had created, well, why don’t I just let Odenkirk …
One of Rob Lathan‘s many crazed characters is Dr. Lanny Latham, who can be hired, and apparently has been hired before, to pump up your seminar with his "Get Psyched!" See, there’s a video and everything. Lathan also will be getting you psyched up tonight at the UCB Theatre, and …
Rob Riggle went out in the field, way out to Iraq last year to file actual reports for The Daily Show, and now he has done it again. This time: China! His nightly reports, "Chasing the Dragon," begin airing Monday, Aug. 11. The Summer Olympics are there. You may have …
The New York Comedy Festival today announced it has entered a multi-year partnership deal with Comedy Central, which means Caroline Hirsch’s annual celebration of big-name comedy in the Big Apple now will get a bigger TV presence. The deal includes an annual Comedy Central special, and perhaps more. So the …
Julie Klausner and Michael Kupperman produced three shorty shorts on video for Super Deluxe, and right about now, you’re thinking, oh, I probably never saw them because I’ve stopped clicking to Super Deluxe, and even when I did, I probably missed it because it never showed up on the home …
A lot of comedy records and DVDs out this week, and Bill Burr‘s CD version of "Why Do I Do This?" is among them. It’s great. Explicit. Brutal. Honest. I was there for the taping, and for that reason (plus having watched the DVD extras), I can also tell you …