The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Let’s Get Going, America! Two of you must get going, too. Sorry about that. There’s something about watching these TV comedy competitions dress up stand-ups and challenge them in different formats — particularly in this week’s sketch challenge on Last Comic Standing — that reminds me of Mitch Hedberg’s too-true …
There is a funny show hidden within Funniest Wins. Perhaps too hidden from view, and viewers. It debuted late last Friday night (with repeats overnight Saturday) on TBS and scared up less than a half-million viewers. More of you watched aspiring comedians on VH1’s I Love The 2000s — as well …
Ready or not, Hartford, you’re getting a second chance to laugh at the giant all-day funny fest that is the Funny or Die Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival tour. Head’s up, America! Dave Chappelle isn’t on the lineup for summer 2014, but pretty much anyone else you’re thinking of is. …
Almost a year after NBC Universal tapped Lou Wallach to develop a second sketch comedy troupe for the network to be taped and broadcast on a night other than Saturday… The Untitled Sketch Comedy Show had a written pilot ready to shoot over the weekend. Not much made public about …
Steve Harvey thought it best to sit out the 2014 Daytime Emmy Awards (that’s a photo, above, of him presenting at the 2013 ceremony, back in the olden times when the event was televised) this weekend, and so the livestream did not have the chance to reward him in person …
Variety has announced its 15th annual list of “10 Comics To Watch,” who’ll be spotlighted and feted at the end of July both in the trade magazine and at the comedy industry’s Just For Laughs festival in Montreal. Congrats to this year’s crop of comedians and comedic acts: Cristela Alonzo …
The good news is we’ll see at least two more seasons of Bob Odenkirk’s lawyer Saul Goodman on TV. The bad news? We’ll have to wait a few more months to do so. AMC announced yesterday it’d already ordered a second season of Better Call Saul, the Breaking Bad spinoff …
Are you ready for the second half of our semifinals in season eight of NBC’s Last Comic Standing? Ready or not, here it comes. And this time, the remaining semifinalists only have one mentor to guide them and advise them. Sorry, no Amy Schumer in the house at the Jon …
If you didn’t book yourself a ticket for one of Monty Python’s 10 sold-out shows this July at The O2 Arena in London, then you’ll have to enjoy it from the comfort of your own home or local cinema. Which is a much more attainable goal. The Monty Python Live …
The Comedy Cellar launched a fund-raiser online last night for comedian Ardie Fuqua, a regular host at the Cellar who remains in critical condition in a New Jersey hospital following the June 7 crash on the NJ Turnpike that also injured Tracy Morgan and killed their friend, fellow comedian James …
