The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Lorne Michaels has several TV productions in addition to his mainstay, his bread and butter, his original creation, Saturday Night Live. 30 Rock. Late Night With Jimmy Fallon. Up All Night. Portlandia. What’s left? The Web. Broadway Video, Michaels’ production company, debuted its Above Average channel on YouTube this summer. The …
Jeff Dunham’s latest special, Minding the Monsters, debuted on Comedy Central on Sunday night, and became available for purchase as a DVD on Tuesday. You may have known that already. Dunham’s fans almost certainly did. You also may have known that Dunham is perhaps the most successful comedian working the …
What’s happening in the comedy world… Lewis Black’s limited run on Broadway, Running on Empty, opened last night. The eight performances go through Oct. 20, 2012, at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. FX announced it will postpone the broadcast of season four of Louie to spring 2014. It had been planned …
In what appeared to a hotly-contested five-way battle in the finals, Tony Baker emerged as the champion of the 37th annual San Francisco Comedy Competition. Tony Baker, born in Michigan and raised in Chicago, makes his comedy base in Los Angeles. The SFCC Facebook page said four finalists still had …
Gilbert Gottfried has enjoyed a long career in comedy by telling dirty jokes and offending people. Last year, however, Gottfried apologized for a joke he wrote on Twitter that made light of the tsunami that devastated Japan. It was his first apology over a joke. He explained his thought process …
Jon Stewart and Bill O’Reilly have become fairly chummy over the past few years, appearing on each other’s basic cable commentary programs to plug their latest books (as O’Reilly has done on Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart) or just to smack-talk each other about the credibility of …
Do you know all of the words to your National Anthem? ALL of the words? Could you sing it on cue, let alone on pitch? OK. Now, can you sing the “Comedian’s National Anthem”? Wait. You don’t know that age-old ditty? That’s probably because it’s only a few years old, …
Liz Miele was telling jokes about her dating life at a recent gig at Carolines on Broadway in New York City. So far, so good. Then a guy in the audience interrupted her to hit on her, yelling out and asking her out for drinks. How did you think that …
If you haven’t heard Adam Wade tell a story from his life, then you really must one of these days or nights. Wade is an 18-time winner of The Moth‘s StorySLAM. His tales often look back upon his romantic idealism and how it conflicts with and yet still manages to …
Chappelle’s Show famously had fun telling stories about Prince back when Dave Chappelle’s show was a hit for Comedy Central a decade ago. Did you know that not long after the Prince episodes aired, Chappelle, co-creator Neal Brennan and Questlove from The Roots found themselves at a Prince concert, and …
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