The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Here’s something you haven’t seen in more than 22 years: Jay Leno performing his monologue in the middle of The Tonight Show instead of at the start of it. That’s because 1) Leno is no longer hosting The Tonight Show, and 2) it’s not his monologue, but rather, his stand-up …
Jeff Caldwell wants to lose weight, but buying in bulk outweighs whatever benefits there may be in kale. Caldwell jokes about this and more in his latest appearance on Late Show with David Letterman. Maybe the answer lies in Sweden? Roll the clip.
Ever wonder how Q, Sal, Joe and Murr lure all of the people into watching their antics on truTV’s Impractical Jokers? In this exclusive, new, behind-the-scenes clip, the four fellas from Staten Island let us in on some of their secrets from the sight of one of their gags — it’s a …
This coming Tuesday will see an extra-special edition of The Price Is Right — for Veterans Day, the entire audience is packed with veterans. Some arrived in their proper uniforms. But proper for TPIR means attention-grabbing, and this big ol’ Air Force vet with the big ol’ Drew Carey glasses …
Jerry Seinfeld continues to generate massive amounts of free publicity and news coverage for his webseries, Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, that puts all other comedian podcasts and webseries to shame, leaves them in the dust, has them crying for mercy. And yet, for all of his fame and fortune, …
The secret to comedy, of course, is TIMING. Whether it’s knowing when it’s too soon or when tragedy plus time equals comedy, or the actual pacing of your vocal delivery, a good joke can either flail or fly based on when it lands in your eyes and ear holes. So …
FOX is having such a tough fall already that the network is sending itself back to school, reviving the game show Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? with host Jeff Foxworthy in time for primetime in 2015. “Are You Smarter Than a 5th Grader? shares so much DNA with …
It’s labeled as an infomercial, but Too Many Cooks is unlike anything else you’d see as paid advertising on your TV at 4 a.m., let alone any of the other parody informercials that Adult Swim previously aired in its late-night programming block on Cartoon Network. If anything else on Adult …
The New York Comedy Festival kicked off officially on Wednesday night with the eighth annual all-star benefit for the Bob Woodruff Foundation, Stand Up For Heroes, with Louis C.K., Jim Gaffigan, John Oliver, Bruce Springsteen and Jon Stewart performing to raise money for our wounded veterans and their families. Last …
You may have noticed Chris Rock and other comedians weighing in over the past day with their Top Five lists of all-time rappers. It’s all a tie-in to Rock’s new movie, Top Five, and this scene from it, wherein Rock’s comedian/actor character Andre Allen comes home to a welcome and …
