The Definitive Guide to Comedy
We were treated to a two-song hip-hop set from Zach Sherwin on Thursday night’s episode of The Pete Holmes Show. First up, “Flag Roast.” Look out, Monaco! Your flag is toast. Copied, buttered toast by so many other countries. But which country’s flag will win in a dragon fight: Bhutan …
Craig Robinson kicked off the revived American Comedy Awards with a musical introduction of the first presenter of the night. Wonder who that might be? And here are your winners of the revived American Comedy Awards, as broadcast May 8, 2014, on NBC: Comedy Supporting Actor, TV: Bill Hader, Saturday …
When Comedy Bang! Bang! returns to IFC tonight with its third-season premiere, we see not one, not two, but three different pairings of host Scott Aukerman and musical sidekick impresario Reggie Watts!!! “We decided to do a tribute to Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, because we thought – that’s the …
NUVOtv revealed its boldest Upfronts presentation yet today, hot off the acquisition of the FUSE cable channel, with Jennifer Lopez coming to the podium on Monday to announce a programming slate that includes new comedy series and a deal that’ll present several stand-up comedy specials on its cable channel over …
IFC’s Maron returns for its second season tonight. Maron remains very quasi-autobiographical in an almost The Newsroom way, re-enacting the recent past travails of stand-up comedian and podcaster Marc Maron and spinning them in heightened and colorful ways for the sake of a TV situation-comedy universe. So it’s nice to …
Katt Williams told us he was coming back. He told us just last week on Arsenio. Spike Lee just directed a young comic’s first HBO stand-up special last night with Jerrod Carmichael. On May 17, 2014, Lee will direct Katt Williams in his big comeback, also for HBO — as …
Jerrod Carmichael might be the 10th-billed actor in the new movie, Neighbors — 11th if you count both of the babies playing the infant child of Seth Rogen and Rose Byrne in what already is the funniest film of 2014. He’s certainly the least recognizable of the four main fraternity brothers …
Surviving Jack airs its first and only season finale tonight on FOX. Enlisted has four more episodes yet to air — perhaps to burn off sometime this summer? And Dads, well, sometimes it seemed only Kevin Reilly and his affinity for staying in the Seth MacFarlane business kept Dads on …
Emily Heller lets the audience know there are definite do’s and do not’s when you’re housesitting. On this set from Wednesday night’s Conan, Heller recognizes that she is an adult woman, and there are better ways to treat a cat. Perhaps she should listen to a different radio station? Roll …
Bill Cosby dropped by for a good bit of the hour Wednesday on Arsenio, not only delivering almost seven minutes of stand-up — in which he joked about how old people only talk with each other about their current medications or their late parents — then reminisced about the time …
