The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Most comedians agree that once you’ve told a joke on TV, you’ve "burned" it and need to be wary of using it again and again in your live act. Which brings me to Gerry Dee. I like him. I like his jokes. But my big complaint about Dee is that …
Your TiVo or DVR is not playing tricks on you today. Gabe & Jenny’s favorite TV show, The Bill Engvall Show, will get a one-time airing tonight at 8 p.m. on the CBS television network. CBS and TBS made a marketing tit-for-tat shaky-shake deal, in which CBS plays an episode …
Tony Rock, last seen early Thursday morning entertaining Comic Strip Live patrons during the club’s world record marathon show, got some good news of his own over the weekend, as MyNetworkTV announced it had placed "The Tony Rock Project" on its fall 2008 schedule. It’ll air at 8:30 p.m. Wednesdays. …
Morning radio guys Opie & Anthony are great comedy fans and do a lot to support stand-up comedy. If only Opie & Anthony’s fans liked comedy. Instead, they prefer acting like idiots and booing most anyone who comes onstage, challenging stand-ups to abuse them back. O&A calls their fans pests. …
If anyone among us remembers first seeing Ant on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, we remember that he was a gay guy making a joke about boxing that got celebrity guest judge Joe Rogan all fired up and alleging joke thievery. That was oh so long ago, wasn’t it? Ant made …
Here you go, the full three-minute live audience performance from Iliza Shlesinger that earned her a ticket to the semis on this season’s Last Comic Standing.
Last year, NBC’s Last Comic Standing showcased their "best of the worst" auditions during the finale. This time around, they couldn’t even wait for the audition phase to end before giving us their so-called most outrageous tryouts. That couldn’t be a good sign, could it? They’re even teasing the "most …
The third season of Comedy Central’s Live at Gotham — the show that replaced Premium Blend as the showcase for up-and-coming stand-up comedians and put them in a more intimate comedy club setting at NYC’s Gotham Comedy Club — debuts tonight at 10 p.m. after a not-so coincidental rebroadcast of …
Did you enjoy watching Kristen Schaal strip down to her Wonder Woman costume last night on The Daily Show? (Yes) Did you wonder if she had borrowed Seth Herzog’s WW outfit to do so? (Yes, but she didn’t, which means you can buy your own Amazonian superhero costume if you …
What more appropriate way to start celebrating a world record than with a closing set from the World Champion himself, Judah Friedlander. Much much more to come!