The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Mike Birbiglia has a busy afternoon and evening planned for his Friday, Oct. 17. Not only will he perform stand-up and do his first panel chat on Late Night with Conan O’Brien, but he’ll also open his Off-Broadway show, Sleepwalk With Me, which begins previews tonight at the Bleecker Street …
Mere hours after Obama and McCain made jokey jokes at a fancy dinner that had global television reach, word comes down that Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin — you know, the lady who might be (vice) president — will appear on this weekend’s Saturday Night Live. The AP gets confirmation but …
We all know that Gabriel Delahaye and Max Silvestri are manly men who already have taught us how to harness the power of the Internet. So of course, Details magazine, always looking to teach the men a thing or two about manliness, have tapped Gabe & Max to provide man …
If Thursday night’s second weekly edition of SNL’s Weekend Update Thursday seemed a little too quick and easy, well, then you saw what I saw, but let’s try to give them a break since they’re also trying to mount a full 90-minute edition of SNL on Saturday. And if that’s …
Would you believe that less not quite 24 hours after the final presidential debate of this 2008 election campaign, both Democratic Sen. Barack Obama and Republican Sen. John McCain would don fancy white-tie tuxedo and tails and tell jokes in New York City last night for the annual Al Smith …
After getting snubbed once and making a mockery of Sen. John McCain for it, David Letterman wasn’t going to back down last night in the slightest when the Republican presidential nominee showed up to try to make amends on The Late Show with David Letterman. No, no. Instead, Letterman came …
So, it’s mid-October, and you’re wondering, is it not a little late to begin reviewing the new fall crop of TV sitcoms? No. It is not. In fact, most TV critics weigh in too early, often with just a pilot episode to go on, sometimes with a second episode, but …
The presidential debates are over, so now it’s time for the final stretch of the election campaign, and the Sundance Channel has launched its own online campaign venture called Voices on the Election, complete with serious and satirical videos and interviews. Including this series by comedian Dave Hill, Dave Hill’s …
Rob Corddry, Rob Huebel, Lake Bell, Megan Mullally, Erinn Hayes, Jason Sudeikis, David Wain, Seth Morris, Ken Marino, "the other" Corddry and more…narrated by Stephen Colbert! Intoning things such as "The Internet’s sexiest drama just got…sexiester." We cannot wait to see what happens next on the new series, Childrens’ Hospital. …
It’s about time. Seriously. I long have wondered why Comedy Central had not done more to cement its branding as the central place for all things comedy, so today’s announcement by the cable network that it has created a live entertainment division sounds like positive news. The network, of course, …