The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Not pictured: Kevin Allison and Todd Holoubek The nine other members of sketch group The State did reunite on the cable TV on Monday night and into the early hours of Tuesday past midnight for Comedy Central’s comedy game show, @midnight (for which Thomas Lennon is an executive producer). Michael Showalter, Kerri …
Stephen Colbert wasn’t in Los Angeles on Sunday night for the Grammy Awards to win his second trophy, this time for Best Spoken Word Album. Which means, as Colbert pointed out with his first Grammy in hand on Monday night’s episode of The Colbert Report, he’s so good at speaking …
There have been more than a few parodies of the great feature film, her, including a very special version that aired on Saturday Night Live featuring Jonah Hill, the voice of Jonah Hill and a “Superbad” cameo as the surrogate. Before that aired, though, this showed up on YouTube. It’s …
The sixth time was the charm for Kathy Griffin, who took home her first Grammy win for Best Comedy Album at the 56th annual Grammy Awards. Griffin won for the digital audio recording of her 2013 Bravo TV special, “Calm Down Gurrl.” Also nominated in Best Comedy Album: Craig Ferguson, …
Third-time Saturday Night Live host Jonah Hill also celebrates becoming a second-time Academy Award nominee, so how much goodness would that manifest on this particular Saturday night? Wait. Hold that thought. In fact, hold all of your thoughts. Don’t think. It’ll be better this way. There’s still hope for you …
In case you missed it…Ellen DeGeneres was too sick to show up for work for the taping of Friday’s episode of The Ellen DeGeneres Show, so she called in an Ellie to substitute. Ellie Kemper, as seen on The Office and Bridesmaids, and soon to star in a new NBC …
Pat McGann, a stand-up comedian from Chicago, made his network TV debut on Friday night’s Late Show with David Letterman. McGann made a quick impression with the audience by letting them know how doing the laundry has dramatically changed his sex life with his life. That, and maybe having two …
The official NBC Last Comic Standing website is still a few days away from making the leap from 2010 to present-day 2014. But the email line is open now if you want Last Comic‘s producers to consider you for an on-air callback audition! That is, if Gmail is working today… …
As Jay Leno prepares to say goodbye for a second and final — no, this time, he and NBC really mean it! — to The Tonight Show, Leno sat down with 60 Minutes for an extended interview and profile. And by extended, I mean, we get to see his wife, …
Jack Vaughn launched Comedy Central Records in 2002 and won four Best Comedy Award Grammys with them. Before then, you pretty much had to have a major record label interested in stand-up comedy to record your headlining act for posterity. And you pretty much had to be a household name …
