The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Festival Juste Pour Rire — the Montreal Just For Laughs Festival — begins anew today and runs through the end of the month, with much of the show business world’s attention focused on that final week. And you’re invited! Yes, comedy fans. It’s giveaway time. GIVEAWAY TIME! The Comic’s Comic …
Just when you thought you’d heard the latest weird entertainment headline involving James Franco this summer, Franco himself announced another news-making decision last night — via non-looping, lazy Instagram selfie video. He’s going to be the subject, toast and victim of this year’s Comedy Central Roast! “Hey, y’all, what’s up? …
There’s more than a little bit of myth-building going on right from the start of Kevin Hart’s newest stand-up comedy concert film. But when you open with $17.4 million at the box office over the extended Fourth of July holiday weekend, who will argue when what’s mythic suddenly appears to …
Bet you didn’t think your nerd love for Parks and Recreation would come in handy while watching auditions for NBC’s America’s Got Talent, did you? Blink last night and you might have missed Jim Meskimen. Meskimen successfully auditioned on last night’s episode of AGT with impersonations of Robert DeNiro, Robin …
Perry Kurtz is a stand-up comedian who has been performing since 1974, and bills himself not only as a contributing writer for Tonight Show with Jay Leno, but also as a corporate comedian for hire for you with the tagline: “Off the Wall, Off the Cuff, and Never Forgotten.” And …
Not everyone can be Carrot Top. You read that sentence as if that’s a good thing, but before you get all dismissive, try to remember that prop comedy existed before the comedian aka Scott Thompson who performs in Vegas and around the world as Carrot Top, and that prop comedy …
The writers for E!’s Fashion Police with Joan Rivers have been on strike since April, seeking health insurance, pensions and fair pay. Turns out they’ve not gotten very far in negotiating with the network nor with Rivers, who herself is a member of the Writers Guild. So today, with the …
Brent Morin performed stand-up on Monday night’s episode of Conan, and the inclusion of fellow guest Angie Harmon had Morin thinking about how so many women are out of his league. Maybe he should stop trying to play it cool and just be himself. Is that cool? Certainly cooler than trying …
Anjelah Johnson isn’t just making a habit out of making music videos as character Bon Qui Qui. Johnson is going to make a full album of songs with Atlantic Records. Here is her new song, with the video debuting over the weekend on NUVOtv — where Johnson’s one-hour special, “The …
At the beginning of 2013, stand-up comedian Whitney Cummings had three different shows on TV at the same time. Cummings starred in an NBC sitcom bearing her name, Whitney, that she created, produced and wrote for, fronted a weekly talk-show for E!, Love You, Mean It, and co-created and executive produced another …
