Eli Manning is a better bad comedian than you, for DirecTV
How have we not talked about this summer’s DirecTV ad featuring Eli Manning with a “Bad Comedian Eli Manning” alter-ego yet? Roll the clip!
Tracy Morgan’s TV comeback will commence by hosting SNL!
In this summer of Schumer, the only thing that can eclipse the announcement by Saturday Night Live today that Amy Schumer will make her hosting debut on Oct. 10, 2015 (episode two of season 41) is the news that Tracy Morgan will make his comedy comeback the following week! That’s …
KFC replaces Darrell Hammond with Norm Macdonald as Colonel Sanders in new commercials
Just a few months after Kentucky Fried Chicken revived its famous founding father, Colonel Sanders, via Saturday Night Live‘s Darrell Hammond, the fast-food chicken giant has pulled a switcheroo, swapping Hammond for his former SNL colleague, Norm Macdonald. “Other than not quite looking like him, his voice being different, and …
Episode #12: Reggie Watts
Reggie Watts and I go all the way back to the very beginnings of The Comic’s Comic and even before that. I had moved out of Seattle by the time Watts emerged on the scene there as a show-stopping force, not only as singer and frontman for the band Maktub …
SAG-AFTRA rescinds “Do Not Work” order, allows comedians to work on “Comedians of LA” and “Living with Funny”
SAG-AFTRA posted this notice over the weekend: Attention all members: SAG-AFTRA has rescinded its “no contract/no work” order regarding the series Comedians of LA and Living with Funny. SAG-AFTRA has signed a collective bargaining agreement with the production company Comedians of LA Productions to cover Comedians of LA and SAG-AFTRA is not asserting …
Monroe Martin on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Monroe Martin was a finalist last summer on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and this summer, he cleaned up real nice to perform his first late-night stand-up set proper on NBC’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Martin performed on Friday’s night’s “Fallon,” and delivered with a set that included jokes about …
Here’s some online onscreen time for some of the Top 100 you didn’t see on Last Comic Standing in 2015
If you think Last Comic Standing is too exclusive these past two seasons by only inviting 100 comedians to perform for the judges and a live studio audience, then just imagine how some of those 100 comedians feel when they got left on the cutting-room floor. They looked forward to …
Maggie Maye on Conan
Maggie Maye made her big late-night TV debut on Thursday night’s Conan and crushed it. Maye is based in Austin and grew up in the Rio Grande Valley, where people have called her weird (which is good for “keeping it weird!” in Austin) and sassy, but at least that’s better …
BET’s PUNK’D reboot to star DeStorm Power with King Bach, Amberia Allen and Ron G.
This is not a drill. This is not a prank. Well, it is PUNK’D, and it’s all new when it reboots for the Vine generation on BET next week, premiering at 10:30 p.m. ET/PT Tuesday (Aug. 18, 2015) with new host DeStorm Power, “special guest host” King Bach and comedians/actors Amberia …
D.C. Benny: Bill Cosby abused me, too (but not in that way)
Comedian D.C. Benny made a new splash last summer competing on NBC’s Last Comic Standing. But back in the day, Benny thought he was getting a huge break with a small part on the CBS sitcom, Cosby. As in Bill Cosby. We have hindsight in 2015. Two decades ago, Benny …