The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The surviving members of legendary sketch group Monty Python reunited for a greatest-hits-and-then-some live stage spectacular that debuted the first of 10 shows Tuesday night at The O2 arena in London. Their final, final reunion show on July 20, 2014, also will be broadcast live in cinemas worldwide. But before …
Ray Jessel, at 84, would seem like an unlikely contestant to round out this season’s auditions for America’s Got Talent. And yet, NBC producers knew more than you. In his pre-audition interview, Jessel told us that he only started performing at age 72. After singing an original ditty he wrote …
Joe Matarese has been performing stand-up comedy since he was 19, and now that he’s onstage on America’s Got Talent talking about being a father of two at 46, you can do the math that he’s been at this for 25 years. His podcast is called Fixing Joe. Judging from …
You won’t see this on Last Comic Standing. Darik Santos, a 26-year-old comedian relatively new to the stand-up game, drove for hours across a state line and stood in line for six hours more to audition for this season of America’s Got Talent. He told the AGT audience he was …
After taping several episodes in June, Sundance TV is ready to air The Approval Matrix starting Aug. 11, 2014. The show takes New York Magazine’s print feature of The Approval Matrix, adds a panel of comedians, actors and cultural observers to debate the items you’d see on the weekly matrix, plus …
In the end, ’twas Yahoo! that raised Community from the dead. A last-minute reprieve, as NBCUniversal and Sony Pictures Television’s contracts on Dan Harmon and his cast of Greendale Community College characters would expire at the strike of July 1, 2014, the #sixseasons half of the cult comedy’s self-fulfilling prophecy …
Seinfeld first aired on NBC on July 5, 1989, as The Seinfeld Chronicles. Yada, yada, yada and all of these 25 years later, it has raked in more than $3 billion just in syndication! Vulture broke down the math, figuring co-creators Jerry Seinfeld and Larry David earn $400 million apiece, …
Denis Leary was a star of FX’s first-generation rise of original dramas through seven seasons of Rescue Me. In 2015, Leary will return to a leading role on the cable network as the creator and star of Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, ordered today by FX to a 10-episode first season. Filmed in NYC, it’ll …
Notable and newsworthy as much because Chris Rock hasn’t performed much stand-up comedy on TV in recent years, and because this should excite you even more about the prospects of Rock’s upcoming stand-up tour this fall. Rock hosted the 2014 BET Awards last night. Here are the highlights from his …
There’s a classic episode of Cheers in which U.S. Postal Service employee Cliff Clavin finally finds the opportunity to make the most of his trivial knowledge as a contestant on Jeopardy!, only to blow it all up by giving what he feels is a correct question to a vague answer …
