The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Fans of Tough Crowd with Colin Quinn well know that his Comedy Central show attempted to duplicate the electric, entertaining and sometimes enraging conversations that happen at the comedians’ table in the back corner of The Olive Tree Cafe, above New York City’s celebrated comedy club, The Comedy Cellar. The Cellar …
“Smile! You’re on Candid Camera!” Candid Camera is back once more, this time coming to TV Land with 10 episodes this summer. The cable network announced the pick-up today, in conjunction with Peter Funt’s Candid Camera, Inc., and Ben Silverman’s Electus production house. “A remake of Candid Camera is the …
Broad City began as a webseries by Upright Citizens Brigade performers Abbi Jacobson and Ilana Glazer, and after 35 webisodes and the approval of Amy Poehler, made the leap to TV. Broad City just wrapped its first season on Comedy Central, with a renewal for more episodes in 2015. That’s the …
Oxygen announced a reality series on Tuesday for up-and-coming comedians that has been almost two years in the works. It still doesn’t have an official title — the working title is “Funny Girls” — nor does it have an official cast. But it’s a-coming. Funny Girls first showed up on …
It’s your first day on the job at this radio station, and everything you thought you knew about radio gets thrown out the window. Including your stuff. Because that’s your boss’s idea of a joke. Wait. Why am I telling you all of this? I should be saving this pitch …
We finally got to see the new high-profile judges for the revived eighth season of Last Comic Standing all together in public at the NBCUniversal “summer” media day today. Roseanne, Keenen Ivory Wayans and Russell Peters are this season’s judges for the NBC primetime stand-up comedy competition, which returns with …
You may have seen Rob Gleeson on TV before, in Showtime’s House of Lies or other sitcoms and commercials. But as Gleeson explained in this stand-up performance on Monday’s Conan, he had been living in his own house of lies until this past year, when he came out of the …
Have you seen Jiwon Lee? Do you know where she is? UPDATED May 4, 2014: Sad news, everybody. Jiwon Lee has died. She was 29. Her body was found Saturday, May 3, in the Hudson River. Police told the New York Daily News that there were no apparent signs of …
So what if you’re racially profiled at an art museum? As Byron Bowers explained on Thursday night’s episode of The Pete Holmes Show…perhaps there is a good reason for it. If you use your imagination. Speaking of art, Bowers also reminds us that most great artists have personal flaws. Is …
Mickey Rooney has died. Rooney, a former child star of the 1920s and 1930s who by 20 was the biggest movie star in the world — in the world! — was 93. Among his many screen credits spanning eight decades, his characterization of TV comedian Sammy Hogarth cut a dramatic …
