The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Two and A Half Men wrapped its 12th and final season on CBS tonight with a two-part hourlong episode, and you could have, should have, would have just skipped ahead through the closing credits to get to the most/only important thing. Sorry Ashton Kutcher. Sorry Jon Cryer. Sorry other kid who …
LaughTrack’s Road To Stand-Up Stardom, from our Premiere Issue: March 1989. LaughTrack was like the Rolling Stone for comedy, handed out at almost every comedy club in the country during stand-up’s golden age. — Courtesy of LaughTrack’s Founding Editor/Editor-in-Chief, Rick Siegel Siegel told The Comic’s Comic that when LaughTrack launched …
Scott Aukerman will lose his Comedy Bang! Bang! bandleader Reggie Watts when this fourth season of their IFC series ends, but this week’s couch guest is ready to take the musical comedy sidekick reins. Presenting Kid Cudi. Cudi, who has worked with the likes of Jay-Z, Kanye West and Mary …
Tony V has headlined comedy clubs and remained a fixture of the Boston comedy scene since it boomed in the early 1980s, as depicted in the documentary When Stand Up Stood Out. You may have seen him in movies such as The Heat or One Crazy Summer. His most recent …
Jackie Kashian returned to perform on Conan again, and on Tuesday night’s episode, the idea that Native American casinos don’t have Native American restaurants allowed her to explore the idea that our idea of a melting pot really has changed the way most Americans look at ethnic cuisine. “Once it’s …
Norm Macdonald is as straight a shooter of one-liners and longer punchline-laden jokes as there has ever been in stand-up comedy. It made his tenure as Weekend Update anchor stand out so much he was the only one fired from his Saturday Night Live gig midseason. It has made his …
Conan O’Brien has enjoyed great success when he leaves his late-night TV studios, whether at NBC or now TBS, to journey out for remote field pieces, whether they’ve been in New York City, Hollywood, Burbank or even off to Ireland and Finland. Over his four-day President’s Day weekend, O’Brien revealed …
Four years ago, Ben and Jerry’s created a special ice-cream flavor for Jimmy Fallon to celebrate his tenure in late-night with Late Night Snack, but that name no longer fits. Hasn’t for a year. So now, the host of The Tonight Show has a brand-new flavor, unveiled last night. The …
Before leaving for a regularly scheduled vacation last weekend, Jon Stewart surprised everyone watching The Daily Show that he’d be taking a more permanent vacation, retiring by the end of his 17th year at the helm of Comedy Central’s preeminent late-night news satire program. Here he was, in his own …
Funny or Die has moved Billy Eichner’s game-show-on-the-street Billy on the Street from Fuse to TruTV for its upcoming fourth season, and the deal also includes for repeat airings on TBS, plus a development hold on Eichner for future pilots, projects and specials on all of Turner’s cable channels. TBS …
