The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Each July, talent managers, agents and casting agents converge upon Montreal to network, hobnob and circle around the freshest faces in comedy they can find and say they discovered. Which is how and why Montreal’s Just For Laughs presents its New Faces showcases. In 2015, JFL once more will offer …
Earlier this summer, my childhood neighbor posted “10 Ways to Know You Are From Simsbury” in his Facebook feed. This upset me in more than one way, not only because I lived and grew up in this Connecticut town that strives to maintain its prestige as both suburban enclave of …
“A return after 25 years. Feels like going home.” With those words, and the image of cartoonist Berkeley Breathed at his computer screen, working on his first “Bloom County” panels since 1989, another beloved newspaper comic strip from the 1980s has come back from the dead but dearly never forgotten. …
Bill Cosby gave young women Quaaludes to make them vulnerable enough so he could have sex with them. Time and time again. Cosby admitted as much under oath in a September 2005 deposition when he was being sued by one of his rape victims — a case later settled out …
Last week, President Barack Obama visited comedian Marc Maron’s garage in the hills outside Los Angeles to record a podcast. This week, Stephen Colbert took over a public access cable-TV program in a small town south of Detroit and interviewed the program’s regular hosts as well as superstar rapper Eminem. …
Blink and you may have missed it last night, but only if your blinks last a New York Minute — because that’s how long it took for America’s Got Talent to show us brief teases of comedians Myq Kaplan and Gary Vider from their auditions this season. Don’t worry. You’ll …
Leo Lytel was a 15-year-old high school freshman when he auditioned this spring for America’s Got Talent. When he’s a 16-year-old sophomore this fall, who knows what Leo will be able to tell his classmates? For one thing, they’ll have seen him on primetime network TV! Here’s his audition, which …
Such a blessing and a treat even just to see photographs of Ardie Fuqua alive and smiling again, almost 13 months after a fatal crash on the New Jersey Turnpike killed comedian James “Jimmy Mack” McNair and almost killed Fuqua and Tracy Morgan. Fuqua might not have the boundless energy …
Last summer, comedian Kurt Braunohler jet-skiied the Mississippi River to raise money for charity and filmed it all for a Comedy Central webseries. For his latest tricked-out summer tour for Comedy Central, Braunohler is driving what appears to be a giant butt across the country. As he explained this morning: …
Before anyone else could claim to be “the pit bull of comedy,” before anyone else turned anger directly into laughs, Jack Carter stood tall amongst all comers in the comedy game, ever ready with a bitter supply of hilarious one-liners and bits. Carter died over the weekend at his home …
