The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Ali Wong has some good news bad news happening in her personal life — on the one hand, she recently got engaged; on the other, her fiance has a gluten allergy. And ’til death do you part means forever because Wong is Asian. As she explained Thursday night in this …
Look at this photo and tell me which drummer is comedian Will Ferrell and which drummer is Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Exactly. The two men finally faced off in a drum-off on Thursday night’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, all for charity and arranged via …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
“Taking a risk — maybe a tiny one, maybe a giant leap, into the unknown.” Spend the next 14 minutes with Susan Messing, who tells an audience last month at a TedX UChicago event that when she wanted to grow up, she dreamed of being goalie for the New York Rangers, …
Charlie Day showed up on campus at Merrimack College in 1994. Twenty years later, Day ’98, returned to deliver an inspiring commencement address to Merrimack’s Class of 2014. His life lesson: “Don’t wait for your break, make your break. Go make it happen for yourself.” Ladies and gentlemen, Dr. Charlie Day: …
“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 …
