The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Hannibal Buress was very excited performing on Tuesday night’s Tonight Show for Jimmy Fallon. Or maybe it’s just the nature of talking about New Orleans. If New York City is the city that never sleeps, then New Orleans is the city that lives by its own set of rules. “The …
Stephen Colbert must keep up appearances as blowhard mouthpiece “Stephen Colbert” on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report, but at the tail end of Monday night’s episode, “Stephen Colbert” offered that if he, in fact, were a comedian…”as a young, bookish man with glasses looking for a role model, I might …
Writer/director/comedian Harold Ramis died early this morning, four years after first being diagnosed with the health problems that caused his autoimmune inflammatory vasculitis. Ramis was 69. Ramis was born in Chicago on Nov. 21, 1944, and moved back to the Windy City in 1996 while still a hugely successful writer …
With the Winter Olympics over and out, the late-night TV comedy/talk/variety melee of 2014 begins in earnest tonight. Late Night with Seth Meyers debuts tonight on NBC. The Pete Holmes Show begins a new second season at midnight on TBS, up against the surging @midnight on Comedy Central. And, of …
HBO unveiled a trailer and behind-the-scenes footage for its upcoming eight-episode first season of Silicon Valley, which stars Thomas Middleditch as a computer programmer living with his friends (Josh Brener, Martin Starr and Kumail Nanjiani) in the home of another dot.com millionaire played by T.J. Miller, as they all seek …
Why is there so much fighting in hockey? Maybe it’s the fans, explained Jeff Caldwell in his most recent performance on Friday night’s Late Show with David Letterman. Steroids in baseball, electrical outlets in the airport and electrical bolts in his electrician’s logo, it’s all covered here. Along with a …
Terry Fator returned to Late Show with David Letterman on Thursday night’s program, and it wasn’t even Ventriloquist Week! Fator has headlined The Mirage on the Las Vegas Strip since winning America’s Got Talent in its second season. What sets Fator apart from whatever you’re thinking of ventriloquists is that …
Chelsea Handler has presided over a raucous, ribald and riotous late-night comedy talk show since the summer of 2007, rotating in three different panelists each weeknight to make fun of the tabloids and their targets on E!’s Chelsea Lately along with her sidekick, Chuy, and her own writing staff — …
Before Anchorman 2 found its way into movie theaters this past Christmas amid a flurry of promotional advertising, director Adam McKay boasted there were enough alternate takes and improvised jokes that could fill a second version of the movie. Now he’s backing up that boast. For real. Anchorman 2: The …
Jimmy Fallon has taken over The Tonight Show this week. What better time to reminisce about Johnny Carson, right? Right. Welcome to “The Carson Podcast,” hosted by Mark Malkoff. Malkoff made his mark online over the past several years by doing things you didn’t dare dream — living in an …
