The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Look. There’s no denying that The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon has cultivated a super fun atmosphere that the kids really enjoy, that turns adults into big kids, and has everyone sharing videos from his late-night variety show the next day. That said, when Fallon says “super fun,” or “kinda …
Comedy Central’s newest late-night series, The Minority Report with Larry Wilmore, has a head writer: Robin Thede. Wilmore announced the hiring today. He recruited Thede from The Queen Latifah Show, where she also had served as head writer. Her other recent writing credits include crafting lines for Chris Rock at the …
Working the road as a stand-up comedian often entails early-morning promotions the day of or before your weekend club and theater appearances, both on local radio and TV stations. It can be fun. It can be terrible. It can be terribly fun. Especially if you want to take advantage of …
Jay Leno isn’t leaving the NBC family, just late-night and the broadcast network. Jay Leno’s Garage will debut as a primetime series in 2015 on CNBC. The news of Leno moving to CNBC in a permanent capacity broke last week, but only became official today. Leno’s passion for cars has …
The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre recently opened a brand-new training center in New York City, and they’re about to open their first legitimate training center in Los Angeles, too, which also will include an 85-seat cafe theater — the UCB’s fourth performance space. UCB Theatre Sunset, 5419 W. Sunset Blvd., …
Christmas is coming early this year, and it hasn’t even arrived just yet. We learned today, first via Variety, that Bill Murray — who has sung on Saturday Night Live and in various movie and TV appearances over the past few decades (including his newest film, St. Vincent, wherein he …
Bob Odenkirk has written a new book that’s literally “A Load of Hooey.” That’s the title of it. The former writer for Saturday Night Live, The Ben Stiller Show, Mr. Show with Bob and David, mentor to Tim and Eric and The Birthday Boys, and star of the upcoming Breaking …
San Francisco-based online fashion retailer Betabrand launched its spring line with models who held PhDs. For its fall collection, Betabrand has lined up 14 funny women, plus an original design modeled by Margaret Cho and voted upon by shoppers. Betabrand founder Chris Lindland thinks it’s a smart strategy, literally and metaphorically. “We’re building …
Michael Che bolted at the end of the summer for a desk job at Saturday Night Live‘s Weekend Update. Larry Wilmore will leave at year’s end for his own half-hour, replacing The Colbert Report and following his once-and-future boss, Jon Stewart, in 2015. And so the beast that has produced …
All of the talk this week about Saturday Night Live‘s new Tina Turner sketch looking a little too much like The Groundlings new Tina Turner sketch been getting you down? We have another, better example of parallel thinking in sketch comedy to examine already! I bet the folks at TruTV …
