The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Improvisation comedy club’s opening in New York City (since closed in NYC, though The Improv chain has expanded to Los Angeles and currently in 22 other cities), the club has a new documentary out via EpixHD, The Improv: 50 Years Behind The …
Daniel Sloss is 23. And Scottish. And acknowledges his boyish looks up front. On Thursday night’s Conan, Sloss also tried to let us know that he knows what it’s like to be a parent, to have your child go missing, and that he hasn’t always been the best boyfriend. But …
Will Ferrell was scheduled to appear today as guest anchor Ron Burgundy on ESPN’s SportsCenter. He’s shown above in a pre-recorded interview with Denver Broncos quarterback Peyton Manning (who owns Papa John’s franchises and has been a spokesman for DirecTV, Buick, ESPN, Gatorade, Reebok, Sprint, MasterCard, Oreo and more). Previously: …
If you feel like you’ve missed out already on Billy Crystal’s revival of his one-man show on Broadway, 700 Sundays, then don’t worry so long as you have HBO in 2014. The autobiographical show — written by Crystal along with Alan Zweibel — returned to Broadway last month and runs …
Charlie Murphy and Arsenio Hall go way back — of course, Arsenio co-starred in multiple movies with Charlie’s brother, Eddie, during the 1980s — so when Charlie performed stand-up on Wednesday night’s episode of The Arsenio Hall Show, he also spent some time on the sofa doing panel with the …
Josh Blue, past winner on Last Comic Standing, appeared on Monday night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. What’s he been up to since then? Well, for one thing, Blue has a wife and kids. She’s Japanese. They’re a lot of things. Check multiple boxes on your demographic forms. Visiting …
Can game shows conform to the rules of the road online? A new series, Money Where Your Mouth Is, debuted this week on Hulu, hosted by Jay Mohr and sponsored by Campbell’s Chunky soup. It’s only 15 minutes long. And since it’s Hulu, you will see the ads. The format …
Breaking Bad may have captivated us as an award-winning drama over the past several years, but we’ve also noticed how much Vince Gilligan’s TV series about a dying chemistry teacher who becomes a dangerous meth dealer also owes to comedy. Specifically, to comedians. We haven’t seen the last of Bob …
Jay Larson and fellow comedian Sean Patton are on a journey to find and drink their way through the Best Bars in America for the new Esquire cable channel. You can see that Thursday night. But first, Larson was on Conan on Monday night, where he regaled the audience with …
Theo Von performed on Monday night’s Arsenio and planned to tell jokes, but he’s from New Orleans, Brad Pitt lives sometimes in New Orleans, and sometime recently, Von met Pitt. So he just had to tell us all about it. Roll the clip.
