The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Has Brian Regan really performed 27 times now on Late Show with David Letterman? Or is it 27 times overall, including NBC and CBS late-night spots? Either way, quite an accomplishment. Just keeping count, or maintaining your spot in line, is something, too. As Regan reminds us in this set …
If you thought the timing of casting Kerry Washington as guest host of Saturday Night Live seemed suspicious when you first heard about it a couple of weeks ago, then seeing what happened live on Saturday night on NBC…wow. Just wow. Before you launch into your arguments about how SNL …
Safety first! That’s the message behind the jokes that began Sheng Wang‘s set on Thursday night’s episode of Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell on FXX. And talk about topical: Rats were in the news in Thursday’s tabloid newspapers, and in Wang’s jokes, too! Oh, also the latest takes on …
Adam Devine’s House Party debuted last week and airs late-late night on Thursday nights into Friday mornings on Comedy Central. It’s different from your typical stand-up showcase not only in its set-up — Devine invites young comedians over to his rented mansion for a big ol’ bash and films sketches …
Orange and black aren’t just for Halloween or hot new Netflix titles, but also the primary colors of tigers such as Hobbes of “Calvin and Hobbes.” For anyone who grew up with newspapers from 1985 to 1995, Bill Watterson’s comic strip about a boy and his stuffed tiger and their …
I love Arsenio because I’m never quite sure if I’m watching it in 2013 or 1993 because this version of The Arsenio Hall Show somehow manages to exist in both years simultaneously. On Wednesday night’s show, guest Naya Rivera reminded us that she was on the earlier version of Arsenio …
ABC’s The Goldbergs is supposed to be The Wonder Years for Generation X. Patton Oswalt introduces each episode in voiceover as happening in “1980-something.” X marks the spot. Solve for X. I attempted to do the math for my friends at Previously.TV. Read the whole story and see if you agree …
Happy Halloween! Since today is Thursday, plenty of Halloween parties already have taken place last weekend, but that’s not stopping millions of Americans young and old from dressing up and hitting the streets tonight in search of tricks and treats. But how many of them have the same bright idea …
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson have made some great comedy movies together (Wedding Crashers) and some forgettable ones (The Internship), too. OK, maybe just those two films. For Halloween, comedian Dan Perrault wonders how they might ruin some of our horror movies as well, in this parody for Fandango. Perrault …
There’s a difference between sexy and slutty, and this Halloween, Eliza Skinner wants to make sure you know what that is. Skinner made her case Tuesday night on FXX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. “So, go ahead and call me a sexy unicorn, because I am. But do not …
