The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Hey, kids! And by kids, I mean comedy fans who are between the ages of 14-23 and have a knack for drawing funny things! Reader’s Digest just launched its first-ever Search for the Next Great Cartoonist. Is that you? If so, put your pen to paper or whatever markers you …
If you tuned in last night to Conan’s special Breaking Bad episode, then perhaps you noticed that TBS offered what the network called a “Sneak Pete” at its upcoming late-night series, The Pete Holmes Show. And what a delightfully odd duck of a preview it was. Roll the clip! Fans …
Tina Fey and Tracey Wigfield did not win the Emmy this year for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics, but the 30 Rock finale episode they wrote (“Last Lunch”) that included the “Rural Juror” song did win for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, so that’s got to count for something. …
When you turn on your TV tonight and gather around your computers, tablets and phones for that second-screen social-media experience of laughing along with the Emmys with your “friends,” you’ll find that many of them aren’t offering their live commentary tonight on Twitter. Rather, they’re on another network, as the …
AMC is rebroadcasting all five-plus seasons of Breaking Bad beginning next week so everyone can get all caught up in time for the explosive series finale of one of the greatest ever dramatic series to grace our television sets. So why not also sit down and laugh out loud for …
How many of you have seen New Jersey municipal judge Vince Sicari perform stand-up in New York City or elsewhere as Vince August? Please raise your hands. You’re not disqualified to be on the jury, because the question is now moot. After the New Jersey state Supreme Court ruled on …
Louis C.K. is in Los Angeles for the upcoming Emmy Awards on Sunday night, but he certainly got into the spirit of #tbt last night as he and Conan O’Brien went total Throwback Thursday on Conan by reminiscing about their first days and nights on Late Night with Conan O’Brien …
Louis C.K. will be on Jerry Seinfeld’s third season of “Comedians In Cars Getting Coffee,” even though they spent the day Tuesday on C.K.’s boat, and Seinfeld doesn’t think there’s anything wrong with that — or with the fact that he’s devoting time to yet another white male comedian. Seinfeld …
For the second straight year, a stand-up comedian has finished second on America’s Got Talent. Taylor Williamson didn’t think he would win, jokingly or not, and his prediction proved true last night live on NBC, as dancer Kenichi Ebina won the $1 million prize and headlining show in Las Vegas …
Comedy Central’s sketch comedy series, Key & Peele, returns for its third-season premiere tonight. From the start of each premise, through a wonderful job of heightening and tight closing buttons to sketches, it’s simply great comedy. And the tremendous onscreen chemistry between leads Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele certainly adds even …
