The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What were the last two weeks of your heterosexuality like? For comedian Brent Sullivan, it involved an unhealthy obsession with female bodybuilders, as he joked in his performance Wednesday on Conan. Sullivan also dished about a new low he felt in therapy, which is perhaps lower than the time he …
Matt Farley has written more than 18,000 songs in the past eight years, but his biggest performance came Tuesday night when Jimmy Fallon took up the “Suggestion Box” offer of a gig by Papa Razzi and the Photogs. So here was Farley performing his song, “Used to be a Pizza …
Years before 30 Rock hit NBC and won all of the Emmys, Dino Stamatopoulos, Stephen Colbert, Scott Adsit, Robert Smigel and Michael Stoyanov wrote a sitcom pilot in the 1990s starring themselves and a then-unknown Tina Fey, set behind the scenes of a show much like Saturday Night Live. This has to …
There’s something so assured, so steady about Tommy Johnagin onstage. The guy’s a joke murderer, with clinical precision, striking time and time again, even if the material seems too “edgy” for a TV audience. Such was the case again Tuesday night, as Johnagin performed on The Late Late Show with …
Dan Naturman returned to Conan on Tuesday night, once more a new uncle, fresh with jokes about how much simpler a job being an uncle is than a father. Especially to just not be bad at it. Naturman also joked about the difference between texting a potential mate and calling …
Larry the Cable Guy made the media rounds today to promote his new Netflix special with Jeff Foxworthy, but even before noon, the comedian made waves when he jokingly told FOX & Friends that he wasn’t voting for Hillary Clinton for president in 2016 because she’d be “the end of …
In case you missed it over the weekend, Comedy Central debuted the first-ever televised edition of The Goddamn Comedy Jam, the live concert held monthly in Los Angeles. Comedians tell stories and stand-up jokes that relate to a song of their choosing, then belt out that song with a full …
Gene Wilder, the wonderfully witty actor who shined in several Mel Brooks films and captivated children of all ages as Willy Wonka, has died from complications with Alzheimer’s. Wilder was 83. Born Jerome Silberman in Milwaukee, Wilder took his stage name as a young adult, although he showed interest in …
The Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe hates Ann Coulter so much more than anyone else, the website doesn’t even include her in its photo gallery of dais participants! As you may have heard (read: read) from eyewitness reports inside Saturday night’s taping of the #LoweRoast in Culver City, Calif., …
Godfrey was born in Nebraska to Nigerian parents who had fled that country’s civil war in the late 1960s. Godfrey grew up in Chicago, which is also where he started pursuing comedy – despite his pre-med psychology degree at the University of Illinois – and where he filmed his newest hour …
