The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Owen Benjamin performed on Friday’s The Late Late Show with guest host Kunal Nayyar. Benjamin came ready with plenty of driving etiquette tips — for one thing, we need to control our monster road-rage impulses, and having only one type of horn isn’t helping matters. Benjamin also has tips for …
We’ve known for two weeks now that not only was Dakota Johnson hosting, but that we’d have plenty of references to her starring role in the film adaptation of Fifty Shades of Grey. Johnson mentioned it during #SNL40, and all of the promos leaned on the source material’s S&M/T&A. I …
Jim Gaffigan wanted to make an important announcement today about chili, so let’s hear it for Jim! OK, so maybe it was about more than just a good bowl of chili. Turns out Gaffigan — who’s currently in production on the first season of The Jim Gaffigan Show for a …
Americans who live west of the Mississippi River will get a chance to see global comedian Eddie Izzard this spring and summer as Izzard’s “Force Majeure World Tour” returns to the U.S. for a run of theater dates from May 19 through July 1, 2015. Among the gigs is a …
With the series finale wrapped for Parks and Recreation, and at 10:59 p.m. on a Tuesday at that, NBC no longer has any claim on Thursday nights — or any night, really — as Must-See TV for sitcoms. The only network with a successful comedy programming block, as the definition …
FOX News announced late Thursday that Greg Gutfield, the former lad mag editor who launched the cable network’s late-night talker, Red Eye, in 2007, would leave the program to develop a new one-hour weekend show in primetime for the Republican-leaning news/opinion channel. Gutfield already also is a co-host on weekday …
Before Parks and Recreation, before SNL, before the Upright Citizens Brigade set up shop in New York City, Amy Poehler was a fresh-faced college grad studying with the rogue improv mastermind Del Close and performing with The Second City. In 1995, Poehler and Close starred together in a pilot called …
When Iliza Shlesinger released her latest stand-up special, Freezing Hot, on Netflix a month ago, the former Last Comic Standing winner decided to employ Twitter hashtags as fleeting graphics onscreen alongside her routines. Sure, she’d like to be a trending topic as much as the next comedian. But she had …
Kurt Braunohler began his stand-up performance on Wednesday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers by revealing a facet of his sexual behavior, which might scare off potential girlfriends and wives except for the fact that he just scored himself a new wife. So never you mind about that. On the other …
Anyone thrown by Andrew Santino‘s overgrown fiery hairdo on ABC’s short-lived sitcom experiment, Mixology, will be relieved to see Santino in his more natural state as he performed stand-up comedy on Wednesday’s Conan. Then again, you’ll now have a new worry as Santino clearly cannot go a week without drinking, …
