The Definitive Guide to Comedy
On Friday night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Fallon showed audiences how NBC crews had constructed an exact replica of his set next door in Studio 6A, where the show will air when it returns from this break until February 2014. That’s when Studio 6B (where Fallon had taped for …
People who asked Jerry Lewis earlier this year if we’d ever get to see his infamous unreleased movie about a washed-up circus clown entertaining Jewish children in a Nazi concentration camp may have known then what we’re only knowing now: Parts of The Day The Clown Cried have been online …
Today is the final day to buy tickets for the first-ever Atlantic Ocean Comedy & Music Festival, happening in September with two stops in the Bahamas on its four days and three nights at sea. It’s not the first comedy cruise and certainly not the last. But it’s your last …
In case you missed it, last night’s episode of Childrens Hospital on Adult Swim featured comedian James Adomian performing several impersonations onstage all at the same time. Here he was, and is, and ever shall be, remembered together as Louis C.K., Rihanna, Madonna, Kate Upton and Freddie Mercury. Roll the …
What Jealousy And Bitterness Can Do For Your Comedy Career By Andy Sanford Jealousy and bitterness exist in just about every pursuit, and especially artistic ones. I can only speak from a comedian’s perspective, but I’ve watched it ruin people. I believe that if you are going to pursue stand-up …
First rule of Chinatown is there are no rules. It’s Chinatown, Julian! Wait. Neither of those movie lines came back to haunt me or you when Julian McCullough performed on Wednesday night’s episode of Conan. What we did see and hear is McCullough’s own experience with Chinatown (New York City …
From the announcement via Virgin: Virgin Atlantic have unveiled the next level of in-flight experience on their Little Reddomestic service. Get ready for live (yes you read that correctly, LIVE) in-flight entertainment. Passengers on selected Little Red flights will be treated to exclusive, intimate live music and comedy gigs from a series of rising stars whilst …
Another August, another onslaught of comedians converged upon Edinburgh, all vying for the attention of Scots and the comedy fans who come there each summer for the Edinburgh Festival Fringe. And here is this year’s crop of North American acts making hey, hay and ha-has across the pond: Abigoliah Schamuan: …
Grandma Kashian’s guide to Hiring a Comedian for your function By Jackie Kashian Andy showed me this article about some comic who did an LA County Sheriff’s Luncheon for “600 or 700 people.” : https://www.salon.com/2013/07/26/sheriffs_department_in_hot_water_over_race_jokes/ Andy suggested that, since people DO NOT KNOW how to book comedians at professional and …
For his quarterfinal appearance/performance on America’s Got Talent, Jim Meskimen took a page out of 2012 runner up Tom Cotter’s playbook and invited the judges and the audience into his act — asking them to help decide which jokes he’d tell. In Meskimen’s case, as a celebrity impersonator, he put …
