The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Two weeks ago, the folks at Comedy Playground filed suit against NBCUniversal for launching a submission-based sitcom development contest called NBC Comedy Playground. Fine, then. Welcome to the NBC Playground. Now accepting submissions. Shorter name, same deal. Read the fine print, and good luck!
Look. C’mon. I know it says Andrew Garfield was hosting Saturday Night Live, and yet, it felt like he wasn’t. Not that his name conjures up live sketch comedy anyhow, but seriously, Emma Stone sure hung around quite a bit to help him through the monologue and other sketches. Fun …
The White House Correspondents’ Dinner has handed over its top speaking slot each year to someone with a link to late-night TV comedy. Does this portend greater things for the future of Joel McHale? Or are they finally considering E! programming as television? Roasted. But first, ladies and gentlemen, the …
It already has been a great 2014 for Amy Schumer. The 32-year-old comedian is enjoying her second season of the critically-acclaimed and popular Comedy Central series, Inside Amy Schumer, touring theaters across the country and earning an American Comedy Awards nomination as the top theater comic in the process, prepping …
Lewis Black‘s latest stand-up special, Old Yeller: Live at the Borgata, made its cable-TV debut Friday night on EpixHD. If you don’t have that channel, then you could see Black on broadcast network TV last night, too, as he delivered stand-up on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. How much …
Carmen Lynch has two tiny roommates. Or she’s a comedy giant. Depends upon your perspective, really. For her return performance on Friday’s Late Show with David Letterman, Lynch joked about doctors, ex-boyfriends and her parents, who have more time for her now that they’ve retired. Lynch has big goals for …
Michael Blackson bills himself as “The African King of Comedy.” You got a problem with that, Modasucka? Blackson performed stand-up on Friday’s episode of Arsenio, and let us know that Compton has a new visitor. Please do not call him a booty-scratcher or anything that refers to the darkness of …
You know there’s a new mayor in Boston because today is officially Eugene Mirman Day. Also, because Boston Mayor Martin (Marty) Walsh messed around with Mirman in this official City of Boston YouTube video to mark the occasion. Roll it. Here’s the proclamation that Mirman was holding, signed by Hizzoner. …
Noël Wells made an immediate first impression in her Saturday Night Live debut in September. Standing out from the pack of new cast members — all of whom were teasingly introduced by host Tina Fey in the season-premiere’s monologue — Wells stepped forward in the very next moment, a digital …
If you want to know what’s really going on with Katt Williams, don’t try believing whatever the tabloid magazines or gossip sites mislead you into thinking, especially when you can go straight to the source. Thank goodness for Arsenio Hall. Having Arsenio back on late-night TV provides a place where …
