The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jim Gaffigan is enjoying a stellar year: Performed for an audience awaiting Pope Francis, will perform at Madison Square Garden, too, and in between he and his wife successfully launched a TV Land series, The Jim Gaffigan Show, that’s coming back for season two in 2016. But as Gaffigan tells …
It takes four hours for Tony Gardner and his makeup team at Alterian Inc. to disguise actor David Krumholtz as 76-year-old grandmother Gigi for the IFC series, Gigi Does It, but thankfully, this time-lapse video lets us witness the transformation in only a minute. Roll the clip! Gigi Does It …
Dave Chappelle, Whitney Cummings, Kathy Griffin, Arsenio Hall, Sam Moore, Kevin Nealon, Trevor Noah, Jay Pharoah, Joe Piscopo, Chris Rock, JB Smoove and plenty of other comedians turned out last night to salute Eddie Murphy at the 18th Annual Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The Associated Press already …
NBCUniversal has announced the launch of Seeso, the company’s own comedy video subscription service online that’ll offer ad-free streaming sitcoms (both classic and new original series) for $3.99/month. It’s in beta now. Seeso is headed by Evan Shapiro, who previously helmed Pivot TV and before that, IFC TV and Sundance Channel. …
And now, for thirty seconds with Bill Murray and some of his funny friends. Including: George Clooney, Amy Poehler, Michael Cera, Chris Rock, Maya Rudolph, Jason Schwartzman, Jenny Lewis, Rashida Jones, Miley Cyrus and the band Phoenix. It’s the official teaser trailer for A Very Murray Christmas, coming to Netflix …
A lone gunman approached an audience member on the patio outside The Comedy Store early Wednesday morning, shooting and killing him before running away across the Sunset Strip and south down Olive Drive. Nobody else was injured, although several comedians were on the patio, too, when the killing happened around …
The Kids In The Hall wrapped up a 2015 tour of new sketches for their classic comedy characters with a performance on the all-star Festival Supreme last weekend in Los Angeles. And The Hollywood Reporter managed to wrangle all five members of KITH — Dave Foley, Bruce McCulloch, Kevin McDonald, …
Andy Kaufman never got to see Stanley Kubrick’s Eyes Wide Shut, but if he had, perhaps the late great performer would have served up a tribute similar to what Brett Davis produced on Sunday night, when Davis won the 11th annual Andy Kaufman Award. Davis actually employed some of his …
Hollywood isn’t the only place that recycles good ideas and is up for a reboot. Now it’s Turner Broadcasting in Atlanta that’s taking a good hard second look at Super Deluxe, the website that launched dozens of great funny webseries and one-offs in 2007 and 2008. Turner folded Super Deluxe …
Gary Vider made it to the finals this summer of America’s Got Talent on NBC, and certainly made the most of it — not only by telling funny stand-up routines that earned him kudos from the judges and audiences, but also by using his time and the AGT budget to …
