The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedian Ron G. is from the South, so going to church is a multi-day event for his family. Going to Catholic Church with a lady friend is not what he expected after growing up in the Southern Baptist Church, as Ron G. explained on Monday’s Arsenio. “Lunchables for the Lord” …
The Second City unearthed and uploaded a comedy first from its archives on Monday, as we can see the July 1990 debut of Chris Farley’s motivational speaker character, Matt Foley, who scares children by telling them they might end up like him, living in a van down by the river. …
Bill Murray says you have to remain available. Not just for work, but also for life: “We’re living this life, we’re in this life, and if you’re not available, a sort of ordinary amount of time goes past and you didn’t live it. The day passes and you didn’t live …
Dean Edwards performed on the Valentine’s Day episode of Arsenio on Friday night, and explained that he and his wife have issues — not least of which is the fact that she’s British, and also Jamaican. Double the accents, double the trouble? It’s certainly different from the relationship that Jay-Z …
When Jay Leno took over The Tonight Show from Johnny Carson in 1992, there was no visible late-night TV war to be waged. At 11:30 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, there was The Tonight Show, or there was Arsenio Hall. Leno’s ascension over David Letterman, however, revealed a civil war within NBC that …
Whereas Jimmy Kimmel, Andy Cohen, Seth Meyers and Pete Holmes will be among the late-night hosts heading to Austin next month for SXSW, Conan O’Brien and Team Coco are headed just up Interstate 35 to the Big D to follow March Madness. Conan will broadcast for TBS from March 31 through …
The White House Correspondents’ Association announced today that Joel McHale will headline the 2014 dinner and present remarks following President Barack Obama. The dinner is a black-tie A-D list affair that brings everyone in politics, entertainment and sports together for dinner with the TV/print/radio/online correspondents who cover the White House. …
(Above: Photo of Ted Alexandro by Charles Meacham.) 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 …
Ted Alexandro released his new 69-minute video stand-up comedy special, “I Did It,” today on his website, tedalexandro.com. Other comedians have self-released their stand-up sets before, and as Alexandro noted in a message he sent out to fans and friends last night, he clearly was inspired by acts such as …
Have you ever seen “a 300-pound black man who giggles like an Asian schoolgirl?” Because that’s how Ron Funches gladly describes himself after giggling during his stand-up performance on Thursday’s Conan. It’s a fun sight, actually. And he’s right to be giggling. A deeper question offered up by Funches, though: …
