The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Tom Cotter returned to Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson for another stand-up set on Wednesday night’s show. This time around, Cotter talked up how stand-up comedy is a dream job, mostly when compared to all of the other jobs out there. Like your job, for example. Are you working? …
Angelina Jolie may be the most famous person you’ve ever known to openly discuss BRCA mutations and breast cancer, but it’s even more likely that you don’t know Jolie. I do know Caitlin Brodnick. And so should you. Brodnick, a 28-year-old comedian by night (and legal secretary by day) in …
Mike Wysocki is a stand-up comedian from Pittsburgh who usually spends his mornings sharing his opinions on the local radio around the Three Rivers airwaves on WDVE-FM (102.5), but he had to make a run for the border to earn his big late-night TV break last night on Arsenio. I listened …
New York magazine’s Vulture section recently started a series, “How To Make A Movie,” with plenty of noteworthy, well, how-to information for you filmmaking fans. On Tuesday, director Paul Feig (Bridesmaids, The Heat) offered five lessons to live by if you decide to include a lot of ad-libbing and improvisation …
Feel like you’re not seeing enough yet of new Saturday Night Live cast member Beck Bennett? Sure, you could just wait for another commercial break on TV and hope that it’s one of his AT&T ads at the little kids table. Or you could watch this behind-the-scenes montage of SNL’s …
Watching the new fall season of network TV, it’s easy to forget that none of these shows exists in a vacuum. You may love or hate an individual sitcom or show, but its placement on the primetime schedule has as much to do with the politics of what else is …
Time is running out if you’re a stand-up comedian who’d like to win a trip to Switzerland this December to perform in the 2013 Montreux Comedy Festival… The festival happens this year from Dec. 4-10, 2013, at the foot of the Swiss Alps by Lake Geneva. You have 22 days …
Mike Epps performed on Monday night’s episode of Arsenio, and good thing they waited a couple of days after Billy Ray Cyrus was on the show, because Epps had some jokes to say about watching Miley Cyrus onstage with her “chicken cutlets” hanging out and bouncing about. A far cry …
Joan Rivers avoided a court hearing next week that would have put her in the hot seat over continuing to write and host E!’s Fashion Police while her writers remain on strike. That said, the strike continues? Here is what Rivers announced on Monday, via a joint statement with the …
A year after winning a late-night TV credit contest, Samuel J. Comroe has won a slightly bigger and older, if not also more prestigious prize, emerging victorious in the 2013 San Francisco Comedy Competition. The 38th annual stand-up contest hosted a slightly different finish this October, with one night, one …
