The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Remember when CBS announced two months of guest hosts for The Late Late Show to kick off 2015 and couldn’t seem to find a single woman capable enough to carry out the duties by herself? Well, consider that rectified. Whitney Cummings is a new addition to the guest-host rotation, taking …
The second episode of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central took off the gloves, “Kept it 100” as Wilmore wants us to turn into a catchphrase, and left no doubt that Wilmore believes Bill Cosby is guilty of serial rape of dozens of women over the past …
Betty White turned 93 on Saturday. To celebrate her, White’s cast and crew from TV Land’s Hot In Cleveland surprised her on the studio lot with a flash mob hula dance. Enjoy.
The MTA runs New York City’s subway system, for what that’s worth. The funny things you may see or experience on a subway ride are another story, and NYC-based TV shows, movies and comedians have enjoyed this platform to share them with us over the years. Last week was a …
Johnny Beehner made his network television debut on Friday night’s Late Show with David Letterman, and Beehner let us know what his life is like with a wife, a daughter and another baby on the way. Lots of healthy food, not so lots of phone sex. Roll the clip.
Congrats to Jenny Slate, who won the Critics’ Choice Awards prize last night for Best Actress in a Comedy for her performance in Obvious Child, where she played a stand-up comedian who has to decide what to do after an unplanned pregnancy. Slate’s acceptance speech is great. Even though she …
“Comedy is not cool. It shouldn’t be cool, in my opinion. Every time it gets cool, that’s bad…it should never be cool. Comedy is not the winner. Comedy is not the guy that gets laid. It’s the guy that doesn’t get laid. Comedy is not the gorgeous girl, comedy is …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
Phoebe Robinson made her debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Thursday, and lets us know what it was like to meet her boyfriend’s white family. More importantly, perhaps, Robinson wants to reinforce for us the point of interracial dating — it’s not about answering cultural questions, but about …
Simon Amstell returned to Conan on Wednesday night’s show to report that he’s in a great relationship with his current boyfriend. The only potential downsides to that? What didn’t happen in his previous relationships, and what’s happening in his dreams. Amstell is on tour, and will hit up some American …
