The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Oh my! Tonight’s SNL was so sad that it even made Ashlee Simpson look like Milli Vanilli. Where is MTV to save poor Ashlee? Her mic sounded funny during her first song, Pieces of Me, as if there were a backing track. We found out why during the second song, …
I’ve been away from blogging for a few days — take one road trip, add interviews and save all remaining time to concentrate on watching my beloved Boston Red Sox — but have noted with interest the media’s take on Jon Stewart’s "Crossfire" appearance last Friday. Initial stories played up …
My birthday yesterday gave me another chance to pause, reflect and try to have fun. Well, two out of three, as they say… I think I’m still young, but comedian Tom Rhodes reminded me that I’m now the same age Jesus Christ was when he died. Thanks for cheering me …
Maybe it’s time to take a fresh look at the one and only feature film by The Kids in the Hall, Brain Candy. Critics were not especially kind to the movie upon its release in 1996. Eight years later, our country and our world are even more dependent on pills …
Life lesson for everyone: Your opposition/enemy is not just wrong but also inane. What do you do? You could refute them with facts and figures. But it’s always more fun to choose satire and show them up as the absurd dunderheads they are. Example: Last night’s episode of The Daily …
News flash…I’m proud to report that I’m hosting the shows this weekend at the Tempe Improv with Alonzo Bodden, Gary Gulman and Jay London of NBC’s hit stand-up comedy show, Last Comic Standing. Last night’s show was sold-out, two shows tonight, two shows Saturday, and now two shows Sunday. The …
Well, what do you know? I know John Heffron, the winner of NBC’s second edition of Last Comic Standing. John is a fine fellow and great comic who has been in my car, and whom I’ve driven to the hotel (and other sordid places in which money gets spent and …
Life is funnier when you hear about it from Mitch Hedberg. A lot of comedians say performing stand-up is the closest they can get to being a rock star. Hedberg comes closer to that ideal than most. When I caught up with him at his Southern California home, Hedberg was …
Caroline Rhea has fond memories of Arizona. The Montreal native’s father lives in Tucson, and Rhea spent some of her proverbial formative years there attending the University of Arizona in the mid-1980s. She had yet to learn about "those giant cardboard sunglasses you put in the front of the car," …
Two things might have caught the eye of patrons to comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s show Friday night at the new Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, Ariz. On a nearby sidewalk, people were scalping tickets (Seinfeld has two more sold-out shows tonight, four in all) while country station KNIX-FM (102.5) was broadcasting live …