The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Kenneth Brown, who went by Kd Brown on Facebook and KD, K.D. or Kenny Brown elsewhere, was killed early Monday morning after tacking a shooter wreaking havoc inside the nightclub of the Bally’s Las Vegas Hotel & Casino. Brown was 40. He’d recently moved to Vegas from Los Angeles. Bally’s …
Sam Simmons put on one of the more gleeful and dizzyingly giddy one-man shows I’ve seen at Montreal’s Just For Laughs. Naturally, Simmons also is one of those Australian comedians who made a name for himself in the U.K. before putting himself before American audiences now. Then again, nature abhors …
Stay classy, Ben & Jerry’s! The ice cream makers from Vermont unveiled their latest custom comedy flavor last night, and it’s a boozy doozy — hold the booze. Ron Burgundy’s Scotchy Scotch Scotch, available for a limited time in the United States and Canada, is a butterscotch ice cream with …
The second season of NUVOtv’s Stand Up & Deliver premieres tonight, with back-to-back episodes featuring headliners Maz Jobrani and Erik Griffin. It’s hosted by Julissa Bermudez and Jose Sarduy, with four stand-up comedians showcased in each half-hour episode. After tonight’s back-to-back episodes at 10 and 10:30 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, eight more …
Trick or treat! It’s not a trick, but mostly treats this week as Pee-wee Herman visits IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang! on Friday night for its Halloween episode. If Pee-wee is dressed up as a cowboy, then what is Paul Reubens dressed up as, exactly? Now that’s a trick question. Here’s …
Add another late-night TV show to your late-night TV viewing rounds, as The Pete Holmes Show has announced its lineups for the first two weeks of broadcasts at midnight Mondays-Thursdays on TBS, as well as the first three weeks of tapings. Set your TVs, DVRs and all reminders that mark …
When TV networks sign a “put pilot” deal, the suits are essentially telling the talent that they’ll put their pilot on TV, and if not, they’ll give them even more money to back up that promise. Yet you didn’t see Sarah Silverman’s semi-autobiographical single-cam, Susan 313, on the fall 2012 …
Don’t stop just because you think you’ve heard this all before. So many times. Arrested Development creator Mitch Hurwitz said he wants to to make an AD movie. But this time, this Monday night, in conversation with New York magazine’s John Sellers for the keynote conversation Monday night to kick …
We’re barely a month into the Fall 2013 TV season, and already America’s four primary primetime broadcast networks have decided the fates of several of its rookie sitcoms. Welcome To The Family? From welcome mat to doormat, said NBC, showing it the exit after three episodes. We Are Men didn’t …
Nick Cobb performed on Friday night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Cobb fills us in on an inexpensive alternative to therapy, thoughts on destination weddings, online passwords, and dealing with your parents on Facebook. Roll the clip!
