The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The worst secret is no longer secret, no longer just a rumor. Netflix announced today that it’ll be the exclusive home to the first Pee-wee Herman movie in three decades, as Pee-wee’s Big Holiday, a new film by Paul Reubens and Paul Rust, produced by Judd Apatow, and directed by …
NBC’s Parks and Recreation says goodbye tonight with a series finale that already would have been bittersweet to its cast, crew and viewers; made much more so with the death last week of one of its own, 30-year-old writer, co-executive producer and Pawnee Animal Control’s “Harris,” Harris Wittels. The show …
As you may recall, comedy fans have waited several years to see a major motion picture biography of the legendary Richard Pryor. It’s happening now, directed by Lee Daniels and starring Mike Epps as Pryor, with Oprah Winfrey playing Pryor’s grandmother, who raised the young comedian in a brothel. But …
A lot of Oscars viewers were upset Sunday night by who the Academy Awards had snubbed and otherwise ignored during its annual “In Memoriam” montage segment, and most of those snubs just happened to be comedic actors and actresses: Joan Rivers, Elaine Stritch and Taylor Negron. Truth is, 2014 was …
The SXSW festival’s comedy lineup always boasts an array of big names, but this year’s festival (March 14-21, 2015) features something brand-new that you’ll be able to enjoy later even if you couldn’t make it to Austin, Texas. A recorded SXSW stand-up special! The festival announced today that it’ll feature …
Gary Kroeger, 57, was a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1982-1985 (seasons 8-10). The Iowa native joined SNL just a year after graduating from Northwestern University, and you may remember him best as I did, performing in a series of Donny and Marie Osmond parodies with fellow cast member …
When Jon Stewart suddenly announced last week that he’d be stepping down from The Daily Show later this year, after almost 17 years hosting the late-night satirical news program on Comedy Central, many viewers and fans wanted more answers. They’d get them Thursday night, when Stewart sat down for an …
And now for something completely different, here’s a video of George Lopez offering unsuspecting Angelenos mustache rides. Well, technically, they’re the pink mustache rides of Lyft, and Lopez showed up in a lowrider to help raise money for the LA Unified School District. In addition, you can get flown out …
Tom Papa popped up near the end of Lauren Graham’s episode guest-hosting Thursday night’s edition of The Late Late Show on CBS, and Papa enjoyed telling us how you and I and even he are living such different lives from the super-rich. Which is super-rich in itself, since Papa is …
The first time I met Harris Wittels, he was all of 21, and baring it all onstage at a naked comedy show. The next time I saw Wittels, he was a New Face at Montreal’s prestigious Just For Laughs festival. The third time? It could have been any number of …
