The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Saturday Night Live ended its 45th season with a third “At Home” episode, but not without pulling out some of its historically Mother’s Day all-star stops, too. Such as surprise! Kristen Wiig hosting with a silly dance and sincere monologue and also starring in a sketch as a YouTube influencer …
The late-night shows have taken to broadcasting from home during the pandemic quarantine, and one of the side effects of that has been the elimination of stand-up guest performances. Jon Dore tried to help Conan O’Brien solve that by performing from his car, while driving, with his daughter in the …
Subhah Agarwal is having a productive spring, professionally speaking. She made her stand-up debut on April 29 on NBC’s A Little Late with Lilly Singh, and also scored a supporting role on the third-season finale of HBO”s Westworld. Congrats, Subhah!
Before Better Call Saul. Before Breaking Bad. Before Mr. Show with Bob and David, and even before Saturday Night Live, Bob Odenkirk worked at The Second City in Chicago. While there, he performed and helped write Chris Farley’s iconic motivational speaker character, Matt Foley. And even 30 years later, Odenkirk still tells Conan …
John Marshall, a comedian and writer who earned an Emmy nomination for writing on HBO’s The Chris Rock Show, and who executive-produced multiple annual ceremonies for the Writers Guild Awards, has died from cancer. Raised in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., Marshall studied playwriting at the University of Pennsylvania. The bio for his …
It was only a matter of time, wasn’t it? After a month of self-quarantining by comedians nationwide, stand-up Ted Alexandro has emerged as perhaps the first to put out a special from it. Alexandro edited together footage from his daily #TeddyGrams on Instagram Live into the 48-minute special, Stay At Home …
Producers/directors Paul Toogood and Lloyd Stanton enjoyed so much access to so many comedians over the last several years to make their documentary, This Is Stand-Up, which premiered Easter Sunday on Comedy Central. So much as, that to only have 82 minutes of footage to share, even in the longer uncensored …
Tim Brooke-Taylor, beloved British comedian of stage and screen for more than 50 years, died today from the coronavirus. He was 79. Born in Buxton, he found his calling as well as his comedy community as part of the Cambridge University Footlights Club. Brooke-Taylor not only served as Footlights president in …
What’s Saturday Night Live if it’s not broadcasting from inside 30 Rock, and not even live TV? We found out this Saturday of Passover/Easter weekend. The resulting product of having SNL’s cast and crew working remotely revealed that stars are just like us when left to their own electronic devices. …
Other MAD magazine illustrators may have been flashy or more memorable for their eccentricities (see Sergio Aragonés and his “Spy vs. Spy” or Al Jaffee for his Fold-In features), but Mort Drucker may have been the most accessible of them all. A New Yorker through and through, Drucker was born …
