The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Fortune Feimster has made her presence felt behind the scenes and on the panel for E!’s Chelsea Lately, but Wednesday night Feimster made her late-night debut as a stand-up comedian proper on Conan. She wore her best cardigan for the occasion. But perhaps only because Hooters wouldn’t sell her one …
Precious little footage remains of Sid Caesar’s comic greatness from television because in the early days of TV, they somehow didn’t think to record it in a lasting way, or even if they did record it, they’d record over it because they thought they needed the tape for something newer. …
Jimmy Fallon’s second show as host of The Tonight Show welcomed Jerry Seinfeld as the first stand-up comedian to perform on it. Seinfeld continues to play it old-school, preferring to do a five-minute stand-up set first before heading over to the couches for a panel interview with the late-night TV …
“Corey Holcomb, doing all the material the other comics wish they could do!” That’s Arsenio Hall’s outro for Holcomb’s stand-up performance that closed out Tuesday’s episode of Arsenio. So if you want to know what Holcomb has to say to all of the “side chicks” out there, please proceed. Roll …
There’s a funny forest of a movie lost within the trees of Nature Calls, an otherwise forgettable 79-minute movie about a lackluster Boy Scout troop that finds its luster out in the woods. Forgettable entirely (and stars Patton Oswalt, Johnny Knoxville, Rob Riggle and Maura Tierney might agree) if not for …
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 …
