The Definitive Guide to Comedy
“This job looks easy,” Norm Macdonald told Conan O’Brien, gesturing to O’Brien’s role behind the desk as host of Conan. “Do you have the chops to do it?” O’Brien asked Wednesday night. “I’ve been studying it like a Jesuit,” Macdonald said of the tasks required to host a late-night TV …
To one generation of comedy fans, he was a plucky kid from Philadelphia — a young gun of Sam Kinison’s “Outlaws of Comedy.” To another, he is a classic, high-energy road-dog headliner. On a recent podcast with his agent, Rich Super, Jimmy Shubert described himself as one of Super’s “very …
Are you ready for another free streaming comedy channel online? Ready or not, here’s PopcornflixTM. It launched Popcornflix Comedy this week, with a corresponding mobile app that purports to offer free and only free comedy films and specials for your viewing pleasure. The press release includes Trailer Park Boys, Super High Me, …
How about Mrs. Doubtfire sequel? Forget about that. How about that Mike Recine? Here he is from Tuesday night’s show on Conan, making his debut. Funny stuff. Love that joke about his hot teacher getting married and changing her name (do we all have one of those growing up?!), as …
Kimmel went to Austin for SXSW. Conan went to Dallas for March Madness. Now Fallon will take his show on the road, first stop: Orlando. Orlando? Universal Studios Orlando, as in NBCUniversal (Studios), will play host to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon‘s first TV road trip for the week …
So who received invites to the televised comedy competition that is Last Comic Standing in 2014? Here are your Top 100 who auditioned for Season 8 of Last Comic. The season premieres Thursday on NBC. Not listed in order of finish or preference. Not yet, anyhow. How many of these …
It meant something to Roseanne Barr that her comedic peers were involved in the revival of Last Comic Standing after a four-year layoff. Season eight begins Thursday on NBC with JB Smoove hosting, Wanda Sykes executive producing, and Keenen Ivory Wayans and Russell Peters joining Barr as the three judges …
Comedian and former MADtv cast member Johnny Sanchez still has impersonations to show you, as he presents the “lost” Latino auditions for the X-Men film franchise. Here, Sanchez portrays Al Pacino and Wilmer Valderrama asking to join the team. But it’s when he’s channeling other stand-up comedians that you see …
Can the variety show come back into our lives like a prodigal son or daughter? Can the networks give a variety show more than a just a single backdoor pilot episode to make itself at home with us? Whichever question is the better one, we did get to see the …
NBC’s reboot of Last Comic Standing debuts Thursday with a two-hour premiere and the promise of mentors for the top 10 finalists picked from the 100 invited stand-up comedian contestants. Wanda Sykes, one of the Last Comic executive producers, will show up on camera as one of the mentors for …
