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Houston-based stand-up comedian Ali Siddiq emerged victorious on Monday as the first grand prize winner of Comedy Central’s “Up Next” nationwide talent search contest. Fans online chose Siddiq from among nine finalists who had advanced this fall out of regional contests at network-approved comedy clubs. His prizes for winning include an …
Remember earlier this year when I shared with you Eric Idle’s explanation for what is and what is not an official Monty Python reunion? This is official. Terry Jones told the BBC as much already on Tuesday: “We’re getting together and putting on a show – it’s real,” Jones said. “I’m quite …
Steve Martin has hosted the Academy Awards three times, but never won an Oscar until this weekend, when the Academy awarded him with one of its honorary Governors Awards. Tom Hanks and Martin Short helped introduce Martin at the star-studded banquet. Here is Martin’s heartfelt acceptance speech. Roll it! Martin …
She had played Carnegie Hall, headlined the Apollo with Cab Calloway for decades, but in 1967, Dick Smothers introduced her to a whole new audience, saying: “Some of you may not have heard of her yet. She’s only started recently doing television.” She was Jackie “Moms” Mabley. “She’s been lost somewhere …
Kate Hendricks stars in a webseries, “Kate the WASP,” that juxtaposes her White Anglo-Saxon Protestant character in settings dominated by other ethnicities and heritages for comedic effect. Exhibit A (Kate the WASP celebrates Kwanzaa) and Exhibit B (Kate the WASP goes to GoogaMooga) already have been entered into evidence here. …
John Oliver did such a stellar job substituting this summer as host of The Daily Show, everyone just naturally assumed Oliver had become the de facto successor to Jon Stewart whenever he’d decide to step down from his role atop Comedy Central’s late-night talk show. Did they think nobody else …
Here’s a sketch that didn’t make the cut after dress rehearsal to air live on Saturday Night Live this past weekend. Lady Gaga takes the helm quite literally in “Female Sea Captains,” a sketch set “centuries ago” in Portsbridge, Conn., in a little-known era when all the male sailors fell …
The 39th season of Saturday Night Live reminds me a little bit of the New York Jets, which for those of you don’t follow football, does not mean to break out into an S-N-L, S-N-L, SNL SNL SNL chant; but rather, it’s one week’s great, the next week’s not-so great …
Fans of Breaking Bad loved to share a joke theory that the acclaimed AMC series would end with Walter White (Bryan Cranston) going into witness protection and/or waking up in a new world where he’s now Hal Wilkerson and leading into the storyline of FOX’s Malcolm in the Middle. Turns …
When Robin Williams visited Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday night, Kimmel was impressed not only just to have Williams on as a guest — it made him feel like he’s actually hosting a TV talk show — but also because he’d heard that Williams performed improvisational comedy with “the kids” …
