The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Today’s guest is Marc Maron. Marc and I go back to the summer of 2001, when I interviewed him during the tour for his one-man show, “The Jerusalem Syndrome.” A lot has happened personally and professionally for both me and Marc since then – I remember visiting his garage to …
“A return after 25 years. Feels like going home.” With those words, and the image of cartoonist Berkeley Breathed at his computer screen, working on his first “Bloom County” panels since 1989, another beloved newspaper comic strip from the 1980s has come back from the dead but dearly never forgotten. …
The current tour of Steve Martin and Martin Short is billed officially as “Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers & Martin Short in a Very Stupid Conversation.” But the audience who paid to see two of The Three Amigos on Friday night in San Antonio received a special treat …
TGIF! Thank Ghostbusters It’s Friday. These are your busters of ghosts, coming to a movie theater near you in 2016: Leslie Jones, Melissa McCarthy, Kristen Wiig and Kate McKinnon. Photographed July 10, 2015, on the movie set in Boston by director Paul Feig. Screenplay by Katie Dippold. Neil Casey will …
I met Ralphie May at the Tempe Improv, shortly before all of you saw him competing in the inaugural season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing in 2003, when he finished runner-up. He since has recorded four Comedy Central specials and in 2015 released his first Netflix stand-up special “Unruly” and …
While most comedians are angling for solo hour specials on Comedy Central, Netflix, HBO, Showtime or EPIX, Jeff Dunham and his dummies are headed straight for primetime network TV, lining up an hour on NBC at the end of summer 2015. “Jeff Dunham: Unhinged in Hollywood,” will air Thursday, Sept. …
Today’s guest is Horatio Sanz, born in Chile, raised in Chicago and known by many as cast member for eight seasons on Saturday Night Live. His other credits start with The Second City troupe in Chicago – where he also was an original member of The Upright Citizens Brigade – …
A lot has been clickbaited around the Internet about an hourlong conversation Michael Eisner conducted with Goldie Hawn last week at the Aspen Ideas Festival, where Eisner is on the board of trustees. Everyone focused on a small part of what Eisner said while paying Hawn a compliment, when he …
You’ve never seen anyone onstage quite like Bridget Everett, and after this week, you’ll never seen anyone up close and personal as you have Everett. The cabaret queen closes out the third season of Inside Amy Schumer tonight with a musical number, performs her hit Off-Broadway show “Rock Bottom” four …
Two months after fans and crew of The Simpsons began imagining an animated world of Springfield without the voices of Harry Shearer, it’s all going to be just fine. Shearer, who has voiced Mr. Burns, Waylon Smithers, Ned Flanders, Principal Skinner, Kent Brockman, Lenny Leonard, Dr. Hibbert and more since …
