The Definitive Guide to Comedy
(The full recap, with videos!) After a couple of weeks off, Saturday Night Live returned last night with a new episode and a seemingly old theme for its cold open: The return of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton, set up by the narrator as a message from "the next president of …
AltCom fest organizer Brian Joyce paced backstage at the Somerville Theater minutes before the scheduled 8 p.m. showtime and tried to pump up his performers. "It’s a healthy crowd," he told the comedians. "There’s not a stretch of empty seats downstairs." Eugene Mirman couldn’t help but laugh right away, telling …
I received word yesterday that after 27 years, the Comedy Underground in Seattle has to close up shop in its current location after the show on Tuesday, May 13, for perhaps a year as the entire building gets renovated and retrofitted for seismic safety. The club reported via MySpace and …
Word has it that BET is working on a documentary special for this summer on black comedy. A crew interviewed the members of the Brooklyn Comedy Company (Baron Vaughn, Elon James White, Jordan Carlos and Michelle Buteau) last month and will be recording footage Saturday night at a special edition …
So, yes, The Comic’s Comic has left the big city for more than a few days and ventured out in the world again, this time that part of the world existing north of Boston, where mirth and merriment can indeed exist in the Merrimack Valley if Ricky Gervais decides to …
In case you missed it, Saturday Night Live has decided to break out its political parodies into its own site, SNL Elections 2008 (thanks to Rachel Sklar over at HuffPo for finding this yesterday while I was out and about in the hinterlands of Massachusetts!). They’ve got candidate sections that …
AltCom, the Alternative Comedy Festival, begins tomorrow, with two shows this weekend at the Somerville Theatre just outside of Boston. Earlier this week, I exchanged notes with headliner Emo Philips about the fest. Now it’s time to check in with the festival’s founder/organizer, Brian Joyce, to find out what this …
HarperCollins has signed Craig Ferguson to a deal to write his memoirs, "American on Purpose," for publication in fall 2009. The actor/comedian/talk-show host said: "(I) hope that it will inspire other alcoholic punk rock drummers from Scotland to find their true place in U.S. latenight television. I wanted to get …
Well, sure. Why not? The East Village comedy venue remains open, after all. And you actually bought into those closing rumors. Again. Didn’t you? Fret not. The joint once known for Cinema Classics and now known as Rififi continues to run a bar with friendly bartenders and a live performance …
FYI: Comedian Heather Fink will appear on today’s Dr. Phil (most markets, 3 p.m.) to confront one of Gawker’s favorite dating nightmares, Paul Janka. Fellow Gawker nightmare (their "Worst Person in the World") will be on the program, too. If that’s not enough, Janka also will be a guest on …