The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In case you missed it last night, Fathom Events will screen Young Frankenstein, the classic big-screen favorite by director Mel Brooks with the late greats Gene Wilder, Peter Boyle, Marty Feldman and Madeline Kahn, plus Teri Garr — with a new introduction by Brooks — one more night, Oct. 18, …
This column originally appeared on Stu Melton’s site, A Comedian’s Notebook, and is republished here with the author’s permission. Top: Illustration by Anthony So “What Your Microphone Grip Says About You” By Stu Melton Every stand up comedian has her or his or her or his own unique microphone grip; …
Looking to capitalize on its increased buzz thanks to “A Closer Look” at Seth Meyers and his politically-minded comedy pieces, Late Night with Seth Meyers is heading to the nation’s capital next week for four nights of tapings. The NBC show will tape shows from Monday, Oct. 10, 2016, through …
Ryan Donahue made his late-night TV debut on Tuesday’s Jimmy Kimmel Live, and as a grown man, Donahue joked about realizing that he was a kid collecting thousands of photos of athletic men (baseball cards). But a lot of life turned out differently than Donahue thought when he was growing …
What is crazy and what is merely the appropriate emotional response? That’s what Eliza Skinner wanted to explore in her stand-up set on Tuesday’s episode of The Late Late Show with James Corden, where Skinner also works as a writer. She also joked about having a younger ex-boyfriend, which meant …
After a week of melodramatic contract negotiations that played out both over social media and the satellite radio airwaves, SiriusXM’s Opie Radio channel remains intact — even if it no longer includes a morning time slot for the man who had occupied it since the channel first debuted on XM …
Aspiring comedians often take whatever commercial gigs or corporate work they can as they’re trying to pay the bills and move up the show business ladder. And sometimes, those “before they were famous” gigs come in handy when they do make it bigger. Like last night on HBO’s Last Week …
Every TV game show that once was old, now is new again at ABC. The broadcast network today announced it’d ordered 10 episodes of a new edition for The Gong Show, which last aired in syndication in 1989 (with a Comedy Central version in 2008). Over the past year, ABC has found …
So, this happened! The Roots Picnic on Saturday didn’t just bring all-star musical talent and celeb-watching to New York City’s Bryant Park, but also led to spillover late into the night Saturday at the Comedy Cellar. That’s where Dave Chappelle and Chris Rock once again held court, onstage together riffing …
Cue the bugle sounds and put your puns where we can see them, because Andy Zaltzman is my guest today. Zaltzman is a critically-acclaimed comedian in the UK where he has been performing at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe since 1999 and collaborating with John Oliver since 2001 — they created the …
