The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Tina and Amy are a great comedy team. We’re all right to love watching Tina Fey and Amy Poehler onscreen together, either as themselves at an awards show or playing fictional characters making merry in sitcoms or movies. But they’re part of a long line of great female comedy duos …
He put the most thought into his monologues and interviews, while also giving off an attitude that he could care less about the whole thing, because who really was watching The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS? On Monday night’s show, Craig Ferguson put an end to one …
Timing really is everything. One minute media is speculating that you’re taking a job with Netflix; the next, one of your fellow late-night TV hosts announces his retirement. In between, you’re on Conan, trying to clarify your own “retirement” plans. You, in this case, are Chelsea Handler. And on Monday’s …
Most everyone has the conventional wisdom backward on John Oliver. If anyone is wishing they could turn back time by about six months, it’s Comedy Central, because Sir John Oliver — I’ll knight him as an honorable servant of Comedy if the Queen Mother hasn’t yet done so — stands …
What’s in a name? That depends upon how much the name, and its uniqueness, is worth to you. For me, personally, I have two very common Irish names. Professionally, I use my middle initial as a more unique identifier to separate me from so many of the other “Sean McCarthys” …
When Comedy Central executives celebrated their slate of webseries on CC:Studios five months ago with a live performance of Ari Shaffir’s “This Is Not Happening” storytelling showcase, it seemed like an odd move. The show at New York City’s Webster Hall was great, with Steve Rannazzisi, Al Madrigal, Kurt Metzger, …
700 Sundays debuted on a Saturday night on HBO. Not that it matters. Because Billy Crystal’s one-man show spans seven decades and all seven days of the week, looking back on a long and storied career. The title refers to the approximate number of days Crystal knew his father before …
Best Week Ever is no more, once more. VH1 broadcast the last weekly installment of comedic commentary on Friday night. On Monday, the full episode — which featured actor Chris Klein, comedians/actresses Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham of USA’s new series, Playing House, and the full contingent of comedians …
Stephen Colbert made his triumphant appearance Tuesday on Late Show with David Letterman as Letterman’s heir-in-waiting. On Wednesday, “Stephen Colbert” returned to The Daily Show with Jon Stewart to say goodbye once more. “It’s become clear I won television. At this point I’m just running up the score,” the fake …
Decades before he was the “Stephen Colbert” that you’ve come to know and love on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert had the opportunity to intern for David Letterman on his Late Night staff at NBC in 1986. Colbert turned it down. Eleven years later, in 1997, Colbert and …
