The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The American Comedy Awards just added one more category to the mix at the last minute (after voting for everything else had ended March 18 (see above!)), to recognize stand-up comedians who play concert-sized rooms and not just clubs. After culling names from the “Industry Committee” (we each received three …
David Brenner died on March 15, 2014, from cancer. The comedian who logged more guest appearances than anyone else on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was 78. Last April, Brenner sat down with Bill Boggs at 92Y in New York City for an hourlong look back at his life …
Famed documentary filmmaker Ken Burns made a mini-movie about comedian Eugene Mirman, and what happened next will inspire you. No, wait. I’ve read so many of those danged UpworthyViralNovaBuzzFeedy clickbait-and-switch headlines that it’s seeping into my writing. No, wait. You should be inspired. That’s the whole point of those lovely …
Which kind of racism is more tolerable do you think: The casual kind or the lazy kind? Hari Kondabolu explores both in this stand-up set on Wednesday night, his first appearance on Late Show with David Letterman. Don’t worry. Kondabolu won’t make you do the math. There is nifty tie-in, …
Bill Cosby rejoined Jimmy Fallon last night in late-night — Cosby frequented Fallon’s Late Night, and just as he did there, the Cos enjoyed taking his sweet time with Fallon making his way to the panel chair on The Tonight Show. Perhaps he knew that Fallon would unleash his Cosby …
Arsenio had a fresh new backdrop for his late-night TV show set, and comedian Tony Rock brought out a freshly customized stand-up comedy set himself, seeing Russell Simmons sitting over there on the couch. It’s all about the real money, which Rock says Simmons has. What can Simmons do about …
Eliza Skinner lives and works in Los Angeles but used to do both of those things in New York City, and as she related on Wednesday night’s episode of The Pete Holmes Show, New Yorkers have a real open attitude about their distaste for L.A. Skinner also was engaged once …
George Lopez hadn’t visited Howard Stern’s SiriusXM morning radio show since before Stern had moved to satellite radio. In the nine years that had elapsed, Lopez had left behind a successful ABC sitcom; gotten a kidney transplant from his wife, whom he later divorced; launched a late-night talk show on …
Funny Or Die is heading out on tour for a second straight summer with its Oddball Comedy Festival to an outdoor amphitheater near you, but this time, you can get in on the act as one of the acts. So to speak. In May, FoD will sponsor a Road 2 …
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 …
