The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Leslie Jones, a stand-up comedian hired last year to the writing staff of Saturday Night Live, dropped by an adjacent 30 Rock studio on Thursday night to perform on Late Night with Seth Meyers. You’ll find out there’s no such thing as an ordinary booty call with Jones, and that …
Almost every comedian I know shared a photo and/or an anecdote about Joan Rivers tonight in the wake of her death at 81, a week after she suffered cardiac arrest and stopped breathing during throat surgery. (Read the obituary of Joan Rivers here) Looking at all of these photos shows …
The Kathy Griffin we all know today would not have existed as such without her. Same goes for hundreds of other comedians, male and female, straight and gay. The multiple hours of red carpet TV coverage devoted to celebrity gabbing and fashion gawking at every awards show would not exist …
Roy Wood Jr. is somewhere en route to Moab, Utah, on a camping trip that’ll take him and his friends on a 100-mile boat tour south on down the Colorado River into Canyonlands and Glen Canyon toward the Grand Canyon. But a couple of days ago, Wood was on the …
When the Green Bay Packers take on the defending Super Bowl champion Seattle Seahawks tonight to open the 2014 NFL season, Packers QB Aaron Rodgers might look a little more pumped up than usual. If so, that’s probably because of his new State Farm commercial with classic Saturday Night Live …
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 …
Before he moved to Los Angeles and broke into TV, such as his current recurring role on the FX series Married, Brett Gelman was an improviser in New York City. One of his earliest big breaks came via the New York Lottery. No, he didn’t win it. He starred in …
Facebook changed the game when it comes to wishing your friends a Happy Birthday, both because now you know when everyone’s birthday is (no excuses if you logged into Facebook), and because now your friends know if you took the 10 seconds to write on their wall to notice they’re …
John Mulaney’s new sitcom, Mulaney, is almost upon us. In New York City, billboards and subway ads are everywhere. FOX has put its promotional muscle behind Mulaney. Now it’s up to you, the viewer. To help you make up your mind, check out this special behind-the-scenes preview with clips from …
“So, I was just fired from Saturday Night Live.” How’s that for an opening line to your stand-up comedy set on the TV? But wait. Brooks Wheelan followed up that salvo on Tuesday’s Conan with this: “That’s not even the worst thing that happened to me this summer.” Roll the …
