The Definitive Guide to Comedy
On last night’s program, David Letterman really let loose on Sen. John McCain, the Republican candidate for president, for bailing out on the last minute on his show…even more so when McCain hadn’t rushed back to D.C. at all, but merely gave an appearance to another CBS personality in Katie …
Here were your final results from the 2008 Boston Comedy Festival contest, decided last weekend… 1. Dwight Slade ($5,000); 2. Andrew Norelli ($2,500); 3. Myq Kaplan ($1,000); 4. Dave Waite ($300); 5. Baron Vaughn ($300); 6. Joe List ($300); 7. Rob O’Reilly ($300); 8. Mario DiGiorgio ($300) How did this …
This ad spoof from the Talk Show with Spike Feresten, Imaginary Bats Home Gym, stars Andre du Bouchet. Swat, swat, swat those pounds away! The show bills this segment as "Comedy For Stoners," which also seems like code words, a euphemism as it were, for "Comedy For Tim & Eric …
Hey comedy fans, if you were up late last night, as I was, you may have seen me on your TV screens attempting to say a witty thing or two about current events on the late-night news-talk-infotainment program, Red Eye, on the FOX News Channel. (Spoiler alert: It was me) …
King Magazine publishes a brief, and already somewhat old oral history of Chappelle’s Show. And by old, I mean it sounds as though these interviews happened years ago. The New York Times profiles B.J. Novak, who has seen his career rise as a writer/performer on The Office, which starts its …
I saw Todd Glass on film at an Improv before I ever saw him onstage. The comedy club chain had employed Glass to deliver the all-important pre-show announcements for audience members to turn off their cell phones and pagers, sit back, "laugh, shut up, laugh, shut up, laugh, shut up." …
Last night’s The Late Show with David Letterman was a real winner, with several segments of serious talk time with former President Bill Clinton, followed by a discussion with Chris Rock, who ably poked fun at the Clintons before promoting his upcoming HBO special, Kill The Messenger (debuts 9 p.m. …
Matt Lucas and David Williams have brought their many "Little Britain" characters to America, and their new Americanized edition of the show, Little Britain USA, debuts Sunday, Sept. 28, on HBO. They’ll be making the promotional rounds all week, including TV stops on Leno tonight and Conan on Wednesday (they’ll …
TMZ uploaded the 29-page defense that Dane Cook‘s attorneys submitted Sept. 16 in their attempt to keep him from getting evicted from the La Fontaine apartments in West Hollywood (a block from the Laugh Factory, as Jamie Masada explains in an attached affadavit!) because he failed to scoop his dog’s …
Advancing from the second half of the preliminary round in the 2008 San Francisco Comedy Competition (via SFstandup.com): Moshe Kasher, Derick Lengwenus, Jacob Sirof, Leif Skyving and Steve White. They join the first week winners (Tyler Boeh, Brent Weinbach, Murv Seymour, Jose Sarduy and Dax Jordan) in the six nights …