The Definitive Guide to Comedy
President Barack Obama appeared as a guest on Thursday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC. Before he sat down for an interview with Kimmel, Obama took part in the show’s popular recurring segment, “Mean Tweets,” reading aloud the jabs that random trolls and other people have typed about him …
After only seven episodes in two months, Kathy Griffin announced Thursday night that she had left her newest gig — replacing the late Joan Rivers as host of E!’s Fashion Police — because the show’s conceit of mocking celebrities for their red-carpet outfits was even meaner than she was willing …
As the Emmy Awards rotate among the four major broadcast networks each year, each network usually turns to its late-night talk show host or its brightest comedy star to host the ceremonies. FOX doesn’t offer a late-night talk show, but it does have a comedy star with late-night experience at …
On Wednesday night’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore, the decision by Florida to ban the term “climate change,” which conservatives previously decided to say to avoid saying “global warming,” got Wilmore thinking. Plus, there’s a movement afoot to “ban bossy”? “We could just tell people to stop insulting women,” …
Last Comic Standing still doesn’t have a premiere date for summer 2015, but when it returns to NBC for a ninth season of stand-up competition, it’ll do so with a new host, new judge and a truncated eight-episode season. Your new host, replacing JB Smoove…is…Anthony Jeselnik! Jeselnik, a veteran of …
The last time Will Ferrell starred in an HBO special, he was lampooning former President George W. Bush on Broadway. On Thursday, Ferrell will be pretending to be something he’s not once more for HBO, but this time, it’s for a very good cause — in partnership with Major League …
It’ll be Christmas in April! All of the surviving members of Monty Python — John Cleese, Terry Gilliam, Eric Idle, Terry Jones and Michael Palin — will come to New York City in April to celebrate the 40th anniversary of Monty Python and the Holy Grail as well as the …
The next iteration of MTV2’s meme mashup of Ridiculousness and Failosophy is here, and a crew of comedians is ready to improvise jokes, games and prank calls in the new comedic game-show series, MTV2’s Joking Off, which premieres this April Fool’s Day at 11 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, hosted by DeRay Davis. …
This essay originally appeared on Ron Babcock’s website and is reprinted here by his request and with his permission. A LONG BUT BY NO MEANS DEFINITIVE “HOW TO GUIDE” FOR DOING YOUR OWN DIY STANDUP TOUR Hello, my name is Ron Babcock and I’m a comic in LA. Last year …
GSN, the Game Show Network, announced Tuesday during its annual Upfront presentation that it has ordered a brand-new game show hosted by and starring comedians, Lie Detectors. Rove McManus will host, and contestants from the audience will face off against three comedians to determine which of the three is telling …
