The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Look. There’s no denying that The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon has cultivated a super fun atmosphere that the kids really enjoy, that turns adults into big kids, and has everyone sharing videos from his late-night variety show the next day. That said, when Fallon says “super fun,” or “kinda …
The 2014 Andy Kaufman Award competition may have lacked the hyperbolic histrionics of a year ago that spurred a nation to wonder if Kaufman not only had faked his death but also had another daughter, but Andy’s actual daughter (45-year-old Maria Bellu-Colonna) and sister attended this year’s festivities, along with Michael …
Comedy Central’s newest late-night series, The Minority Report with Larry Wilmore, has a head writer: Robin Thede. Wilmore announced the hiring today. He recruited Thede from The Queen Latifah Show, where she also had served as head writer. Her other recent writing credits include crafting lines for Chris Rock at the …
Working the road as a stand-up comedian often entails early-morning promotions the day of or before your weekend club and theater appearances, both on local radio and TV stations. It can be fun. It can be terrible. It can be terribly fun. Especially if you want to take advantage of …
Jay Leno isn’t leaving the NBC family, just late-night and the broadcast network. Jay Leno’s Garage will debut as a primetime series in 2015 on CNBC. The news of Leno moving to CNBC in a permanent capacity broke last week, but only became official today. Leno’s passion for cars has …
The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre recently opened a brand-new training center in New York City, and they’re about to open their first legitimate training center in Los Angeles, too, which also will include an 85-seat cafe theater — the UCB’s fourth performance space. UCB Theatre Sunset, 5419 W. Sunset Blvd., …
Dan St. Germain showed up to perform in a suit on Monday’s Conan, which is an odd look for this man at this location. As he readily acknowledged. His ex-girlfriend left him to work for Google, which is awkward for all of us. I wonder what his future self would tell …
Christmas is coming early this year, and it hasn’t even arrived just yet. We learned today, first via Variety, that Bill Murray — who has sung on Saturday Night Live and in various movie and TV appearances over the past few decades (including his newest film, St. Vincent, wherein he …
Denver-based comedian Andrew Orvedahl made his debut Monday on The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon, and let’s just say it’s more significant than a pre-school graduation. Orvedahl would go much further than that. Both in life and in this routine. Fun fact: Andrew is one-third of The Grawlix, a Denver …
Bob Odenkirk has written a new book that’s literally “A Load of Hooey.” That’s the title of it. The former writer for Saturday Night Live, The Ben Stiller Show, Mr. Show with Bob and David, mentor to Tim and Eric and The Birthday Boys, and star of the upcoming Breaking …
