The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
"What if I just kept talking for 12 minutes? What would happen? That was the opener." — Jeremy Piven, winning his third consecutive Emmy for best supporting actor in a comedy for Entourage. The hosts talked for only five minutes, Piven. It just felt like 12. Having the five nominees …
Extra! Extra! Read all about it! Stand-up comedian Kumail Nanjiani got a speaking role (as in, more than a regular extra gig) on last night’s episode of Saturday Night Live, as one of 50 reporters in a sketch lampooning the liberal elite of the New York Times that even FOX …
MADtv embraced its spoofiness even more than usual last night, as only one routine in the entire show was not based on an actual person and/or existing TV/movie concept. And that bit involved Bobby Lee and Johnny Sanchez interacting with people on a Los Angeles sidewalk, getting them to taste …
Spoiler alert! Oh, wait. It’s an event, results happened, we were there, and if you missed it, you missed it, so there’s nothing to spoil, only news to share in the finals of the 2008 Boston Comedy Festival’s stand-up comedy competition. And here are your top three finishers, as announced …
Lessons learned from last night at the 2008 Boston Comedy Festival: Sometimes a comic plays very well to the back of the room, but not so much to the judges table in the second row; and sometimes, a show is so stacked with talent that it’s difficult to pick just …