The Definitive Guide to Comedy
On his special live Sunday night edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live broadcast after the Academy Awards, Kimmel’s guest Kevin Spacey again showed off his Johnny Carson impersonation. Spacey (himself a two-time Oscar winner) also surprised Kimmel by saying that his friendship with the Carson estate allowed him to acquire rare …
NBC still hasn’t announced a premiere date for midseason sitcom Undateable, but by sending out its four stand-up comedian stars (Chris D’Elia, Ron Funches, Brent Morin, Rick Glassman) on a tour that starts Sunday in New York City and hits nine major TV markets through the end of March, you’d …
Of all the awesome and great things about Adult Swim’s late-night spoofery Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job! (2007-2010), perhaps the sketches that inspired the most awe came when Tim Heidecker and Eric Wareheim ceded the spotlight to Dr. Steve Brule, the oafish expert of nothing, curious about everything …
“Actually, on the second season, I’m going to be hosting. They didn’t tell you that part.” — Jay Leno, right before hugging Arsenio Hall, who has that reaction (above), after Leno first read a certified letter on-air during Wednesday night’s Arsenio announcing his late-night TV show had been renewed for …
In the second-season premiere of Legit (debuting tonight on FXX), comedian Jim Jefferies plays comedian Jim Jefferies as a guest on the radio talk show Loveline with Dr. Drew, and is forced to confront his possible sex/porn addiction. As much as critics may have wanted to compare Louis C.K.’s Louie …
In the third season of IFC’s lovably quirky sketch comedy series, Portlandia, Fred Armisen showed off his impersonation of legendary Dead Kennedys singer Jello Biafra in a sketch lampooning the idea of a punk musicians’ home becoming a historic landmark. In Portlandia’s fourth season, which premieres Thursday, Jello Biafra himself …
Team Coco is running a promotional contest right now called, “Hey, I Just Woke Up, Aren’t I Talented?” in which you submit your morning routine video to Conan by Feb. 28 (this Friday) with #MyWakeUpTalent, and if you’re indeed talented enough, you’ll wind up (in video or maybe even real …
If we all say “NO,” then NBC certainly wouldn’t dare broadcast tonight’s episode of Law & Order: SVU against our wishes, right? Right? Jonathan Silverman plays Josh Galloway, a stand-up comedian who makes a name for himself with rape jokes and a crime for himself in alleged rapes in tonight’s …
Stephen Colbert must keep up appearances as blowhard mouthpiece “Stephen Colbert” on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, but at the tail end of Monday night’s episode, “Stephen Colbert” offered that if he, in fact, were a comedian…”as a young, bookish man with glasses looking for a role model, I might …
With the Winter Olympics over and out, the late-night TV comedy/talk/variety melee of 2014 begins in earnest tonight. Late Night with Seth Meyers debuts tonight on NBC. The Pete Holmes Show begins a new second season at midnight on TBS, up against the surging @midnight on Comedy Central. And, of …
