The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Sebastian Maniscalco is happy to be done with the holiday season. Not that spending the night with relatives is any easier or less stressful for him than staying in a hotel. They both have their disadvantages, as Maniscalco explained on Thursday’s episode of Late Night with Seth Meyers. Roll the …
Nick Guerra may have made an even better first impression with NBC than he thought. Last summer, you saw Guerra shine in his early auditions for Last Comic Standing. Last night, NBC announced he’d won the network’s separate contest, called StandUp NBC (formerly Stand-Up For Diversity). His prize is a …
NBC has announced the 10 finalists for the first edition of the network’s NBC Playground, an open competition to seek out new voices for primetime broadcast sitcoms. Entries that advanced after submitting initial introduction videos, sitcom pitches and the required application are: Jeff Galante (Los Angeles) Tyler Hall (Brooklyn) Melissa …
The cast of Bob’s Burgers is heading back out on the road for a formal spring tour, with eight dates in eight cities lined up so far in mid-to-late March through the Midwest and Northeast Corridor. The fifth season began earlier this winter on Sunday nights, and FOX just renewed …
Justin Bieber turns 21 on March 1, and what music superstar idol turned rapscallion and ne’er-do-well wouldn’t want to be given a dose of comeuppance by famous funny people? That’s the idea behind Comedy Central’s announcement this week that Bieber will star as the next victim of its celebrity roasts. …
Louis CK already has his next stand-up special in the can as he continues to take victory laps around Madison Square Garden, adding a fourth show for next week. As he wrote to fans, “I mean, if you keep buying the tickets, I have to keep doing the shows. My …
Iliza Shlesinger has a new stand-up hour-plus debuting this weekend on Netflix, and to celebrate/promote it, the former Last Comic champ performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Now that Shlesinger is in her 30s, she’d like to be more serious about her dating experiences. Now if only she …
Alingon Mitra made a big splash last summer on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and for this performance on Monday night’s episode of Conan, he once more tells us about his own issues with gay athletes and gay marriage. Which isn’t so much first-hand. Then again, he doesn’t know why people …
You knew Kevin Hart would bring the energy and enthusiasm when he hosted Saturday Night Live for the second time, but would he, the cast and the writers bring the funny to go with it as we kicked off the 2015 portion of this 40th anniversary season? To the recap! …
Michael Kosta’s time as a New Yorker was short-lived, as he moved back to Los Angeles last fall after Fox Sports 1 pulled the plug on Crowd Goes Wild, the live sports talker Kosta co-hosted with Regis Philbin. But one year was enough to have an impact on Kosta’s comedy. …
