The Definitive Guide to Comedy
While Jimmy Fallon and his Tonight Show crew filmed a week of shows in Orlando last month, they took out some time to open up the ol’ viewer mailbag, and Fallon answered a question about his biggest fears when he was just starting out as a stand-up comedian. Would you …
Mike Flinn (@realmikeflinn) isn’t just a podcast producer and engineer; he’s also an avid fan of the form. “My Pod Week” recaps and reviews the many varied comedy podcasts Flinn listened to or attended live tapings of during the previous week. Enjoy! NERD POKER: DUNGEONS AND DRAGONS WITH BRIAN POSEHN …
Before you even try to answer that question, consider this: Should you even be a comedian? I mean, as a profession. As in, dive into a career as a professional comedian. If that’s your goal, then let me steer you toward professional stand-up comedian Paul Ogata (past winner of the San …
Inside San Francisco’s Cobb’s Comedy Club, Dean Delray is preparing for a sold-out Friday night show. I am led to his dressing room, where he anxiously greets me at the door. He stands about 5’ 6” with slicked hair and a thick handlebar mustache. A former rocker, he’s known to …
Finally! Some great, encouraging news to share regarding comedian Ardie Fuqua, courtesy of our mutual friend and comedian, Wil Sylvince. I’ll let Wil tell it to you straight: “To all who’s concerned about Ardie Fuqua, he’s doing a lot better but still has a long way to fully recover. He’s finally …
Want to see Bill Hader and Kristen Wiig play twins who haven’t seen nor spoken to each other in 10 years, reunite? That’s the essence of The Skeleton Twins, the new film directed and co-written by Craig Johnson with Mark Heyman. It co-stars Luke Wilson, Ty Burrell and Boyd Holbrook. …
Bill Murray is back in a leading role with the titular role in St. Vincent, a new coming-of-age comedy film written and directed by Theodore Melfi. In it, Murray plays a curmudgeonly war veteran enlisted by his new neighbor (Melissa McCarthy) to babysit her young son. Lessons are learned all …
The Fourth of July weekend isn’t just a big holiday for seeing new blockbuster movies, but also for releasing trailers to excite you movie-goers for Thanksgiving, Christmas and even next year. So Warner Bros. gives us the first official teaser of Horrible Bosses 2, because you couldn’t expect Jason Bateman, …
In the early morning hours of July 2, 2014, the proceedings outside The Comedy Store on Hollywood’s Sunset Strip suddenly became more of a battleground than the Roast Battle happening inside it. Cops with a shotgun drawn. Another night @thecomedystore https://t.co/OnoVInctkP — Kyle Ray (@theKYLERAY) July 2, 2014 Someone called …
Jay Baruchel is FXX’s newest leading man, starring in the upcoming Man Seeking Woman, ordered to a 10-episode season today by the cable network. Coming in 2015, Man Seeking Woman stars Baruchel as Josh Greenberg, “a naive romantic on a desperate quest for love” — based on Simon Rich’s book …
