The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Carmen Lynch isn’t in the mood for love. At least not until she’s gotten to know herself better. Just taking her friend’s advice, Lynch reveals in her stand-up performance Thursday on The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Pay no attention to the fact that she’s 6-feet-tall. Everything is right …
Michael Che’s last night as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart did not pass by unnoticed. Despite the fact that Che only lasted three months (“actually, 58 business days”) in the gig with Comedy Central before returning to NBC and Saturday Night Live in the elite ranks …
Randy Liedtke has an idea for making Yelp seem new again. Actually, Liedtke is full of fun business ideas, some of which he shared in his stand-up performance on Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. Just imagine how his girlfriend will react to them. Go on. Just imagine it. Roll …
Marc Maron jokingly wondered this summer if anyone ever had looked him up after seeing him on TV in Canada via one of the many comedy “Galas” produced each summer by Montreal’s Just For Laughs. Joke no more. Especially since some media reports described JFL’s new YouTube Channel as releasing …
You’ll hear a lot in the trades and the trade winds from now through pilot season, which starts in earnest in January, all the way up to the cable Upfronts in the spring and the broadcast network Upfronts in May — when TV programmers present their new and returning lineups …
Comedy Central’s late-night comedy “game show” and Twitter takeover expert, @midnight, is making its first road trip, heading to New York City to tape a week’s worth of shows during the New York Comedy Festival, airing Nov. 3-6, 2014. Host Chris Hardwick and the crew will tape the four broadcasts …
If you were to ask me where to go to feel better about myself and everyone around me, Maui definitely would be near the top of my list. Heck, any of the Hawaiian islands would do the trick. Heck, there’s not even a trick to it. I even entertained a …
Saturday Night Live‘s longest-serving cast member has returned to the fold. Darrell Hammond, 58, will belt out the names of cast members old and new when SNL kicks off its 40th anniversary season on Sept. 27, 2014. Hammond has appeared onscreen in a record 280 episodes of SNL, both as …
The city of New York recently approved renaming the Morningside Heights street where George Carlin grew up as “George Carlin Way” in honor of the late stand-up comedian. George Carlin Way already shows up on Google Maps. And on Oct. 22, 2014, the physical signs will match the digital ones. …
Is Nick Griffin feeling depressed, or is this just a natural state of being once you hit your 40s? On Tuesday night’s Conan, Griffin isn’t quite sure. He does know now that if it’s not sex, money, booze, or dessert, then he’s not having any of it. And don’t try …
