The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Here’s a standard element of late-night TV newly incorporated into The Pete Holmes Show on TBS, as Holmes welcomed stand-up comedy to the program Wednesday night in the form of his friend Jared Logan. Logan let us know about his relationship with his girlfriend and their mutual love of bed-and-breakfast …
Ian Karmel found out something new about himself in the drive-thru line at Jack in the Box. Which is probably not the place he was expecting for revelations. Hearing it from his girlfriend, however? That may be a bit less surprising, as he learned and then shared with us in …
Meet Kimmy Gatewood. She’s one of hundreds, maybe even thousands, of actresses in Hollywood who have been auditioning this month and last for TV pilots in the ritual known as “Pilot Season.” She’s shedding some light on the process and making light of it in this new video she wrote …
Funny or Die’s Billy on the Street with Billy Eichner — say that three times fast and you, too, may win a crisp dollar bill from Billy! — returns tonight for a third season on Fuse. This season includes more celebrity guest stars, with Paul Rudd, Neil Patrick Harris, Amy …
This wasn’t so much a sketch from last weekend’s Saturday Night Live, insomuch as it’s a re-enactment of an actual backstage encounter cast member Vanessa Bayer had with her colleagues and host Lena Dunham. So let’s set this clip up. Bayer learned a new dance move for Beyonce’s song, “Partition,” …
Jimmy Kimmel is eating up the Texas-sized crowds in Austin as deliciously as he is the barbecue in its capital city of Austin, where he kicked off a week of broadcasts Monday night taking ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live on the road. “We are here for the South by Southwest Festival. …
Believe it. That’s President Barack Obama, sitting with Zach Galifianakis for this very special edition of Between Two Ferns for Funny or Die. Guess what, Obama will do anything to plug healthcare.gov. Galifianakis: “I have to know, what is it like to be the last black president?” Obama: “Seriously? What’s …
“Small house, big laughs at #SXSW.” That was Bill Cosby’s own tagline for his intimate Monday night performance at the increasingly massive SXSW festival that takes over downtown Austin for 10 days in March, catering to the powers-that-be and the powers-that-want-to-be in the worlds of technology, film and music. Funny …
If it’s too much of a rush to judgment to review Late Night with Seth Meyers after its debut, then how about two weeks later? And yet, here Meyers was with his executive producer Mike Shoemaker on Saturday afternoon at SXSW for a panel “Inside Late Night with Seth Meyers,” …
Look. Sometimes you’re not anywhere near home or a TV on a Saturday night, nor even Sunday night, after you’ve seen several cast members of Saturday Night Live at a comedy festival, and then it’s Monday morning and you’re about to see and hear Lena Dunham give a keynote speech …
