The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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: …
A neighbor of mine asked me for weeks to invite him along to a live comedy show. When I brought him to see The Pajama Men on Tuesday night at SubCulture New York (45 Bleecker Street’s underground Off-Broadway theater), I tried to warn him that this wasn’t stand-up like the …
The next stand-up comedian to hit the big-screen big time is Gabriel Iglesias. Open Road Films announced today it will distribute Gulfstream Pictures’ The Fluffy Movie — a stand-up comedy concert film starring Iglesias — in cinemas nationwide on July 11, 2014. Iglesias exclaimed on Twitter @fluffyguy: “ITS OFFICIAL, “THE …
Legalizing marijuana really has changed the attitudes of the people who smoke pot — not that Erin Foley is one of those people. She doesn’t even smoke, as she told the audience on Tuesday’s Arsenio. Would smoking help her navigate the perfume aisles of Macy’s, however? Fair question to ponder. Roll …
Sid Caesar, TV’s sketch comedy pioneer, died on Wednesday in his Beverly Hills home. He was 91. Born in Yonkers, N.Y., Caesar began to make his mark at the dawn of our network television age, landing his own show in 1948 with the Admiral Broadway Revue. But it was Your …
Alpha House, one of Amazon Studio’s first TV series, has proven successful enough that creator Garry Trudeau has had to shelve the previous creation he’s still better known for: His comic strip, Doonesbury. Alpha House stars John Goodman, Mark Consuelos, Clark Johnson and Matt Malloy as four U.S. Senators sharing …
