The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Fans of Breaking Bad loved to share a joke theory that the acclaimed AMC series would end with Walter White (Bryan Cranston) going into witness protection and/or waking up in a new world where he’s now Hal Wilkerson and leading into the storyline of FOX’s Malcolm in the Middle. Turns …
Must be nice to be the child of a celebrity. Matt Romano, 20-year-old son of Ray Romano, is working as a production assistant for Jimmy Kimmel Live. Ray told us all that when he visited Kimmel’s show on Wednesday, opening the door for the joke Kimmel and young Matt played …
Above (left to right): Andy Kaufman Award winners Harrison Greenbaum (2010), Harry Terjanian (2013), Michael Kaufman, Marcus Monroe (2012), Nick Vatterott (2011). You may have heard about the 2013 Andy Kaufman Awards. Mostly you heard, saw and read about a young woman walking onstage and introducing herself to Michael Kaufman, …
Somewhere between “Prominent Black Lady News” and an interview with Dr. Yaba Blay about her book, “One Drop,” W. Kamau Bell paused to tell the audience at Wednesday night’s taping of Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell, “It’s just all sad news today.” Bell was still joking about his monologue, …
Before there was the viral video, before the Internet meme, before the Tweet and ReTweet, the Huffington Post and the Colbert Bump, there was The Onion headline. (You remember headlines, right? They’re like Tweets, only way fewer than 140 characters.) The Onion headline, now shorthand for the outrageous (and steeped …
If you saw a large tour bus rolling along the streets of Los Angeles last weekend with the faces of Paul Scheer and Rob Huebel painted on its side, with them inside, then you got a first glimpse at their upcoming Crash Test stand-up special. As Scheer jokingly told his …
Last year’s special guest at the Andy Kaufman Awards was Tony Danza. This year? A 24-year-old woman claiming to be Andy’s daughter. Which is a neat party trick, considering Andy Kaufman died 29 years ago, in 1984. Trick or treat, you’re likely to get both from a Kaufmanesque performance. At …
Over the weekend, Sacha Baron Cohen showed up the Brits and Hollywood once more whilst accepting his Charlie Chaplin Award for Excellence In Comedy at the BAFTA L.A. Jaguar Britannia Awards, pretending to kill an elderly woman who had been introduced as a co-star with the late great Chaplin. Salma …
Look, nobody will argue that Too Close For Comfort was one of the greatest shows in TV history, let alone a very good sitcom in the early 1980s. But nobody is here to argue that, anyhow. And if Too Close For Comfort had not existed, would any of us have …
Stephen Colbert may have won two Emmy Awards this year, and he was quick to remind us of this on Thursday night’s episode of The Colbert Report. But Colbert has his sights on a new prize, the “crystal vagina” that is the People’s Choice Award. In a segment called “Who …
