The Definitive Guide to Comedy
At 86, the Canadian-born Mort Sahl shows no signs of stopping his satirical look upon and obsession with American politics. Sahl put on three late-night shows last week at New York City’s Café Carlyle, opening his stand-up performances with an updated plea: “God bless Barack Obama, long may he waver.” …
Neil Patrick Harris closed out his hosting duties on the 2013 Tony Awards on Sunday night with a freestyle rap and backing melodies from five-time Tony winner Audra McDonald. Lin-Manuel Miranda and Thomas Kail, Tony winners themselves for In The Heights and also erstwhile founding members of Freestyle Love Supreme, …
The Lonely Island‘s third studio album drops today, and there’s no reason to doubt or expect anything less than another mega hit out of “The Wack Album” from Andy Samberg, Akiva Schaffer and Jorma Taccone. It’s already a top 10 hit on the overall charts online at both Amazon.com and …
What’s happening in the comedy world these days… You knew it was happening before it happened, but Community creator Dan Harmon is back running his show for the NBC sitcom’s fifth season in 2013-2014. Chris McKenna, who also left before the fourth season, also is returning as an executive producer. …
The phrase “comedy nerd” gets thrown around online so much this decade that you wonder what meaning it still has, and yet, here are two assembled bodies of TV critics to remind us that the nerds have risen up and claimed the party for themselves. What’s popular in America and …
“Let’s just all acknowledge for a moment that this is weird. It looks weird. It feels weird. It even sounds weird. It sounds weird to me and this is my actual voice.” — John Oliver, opening his first episode as guest host of The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, June …
Mark Oct. 19, 2013, on your calendars for the first-ever Festival Supreme, a full-day of comedy and music put on by Tenacious D’s Jack Black and Kyle Gass on the Santa Monica Pier. “We’ve been trying to put this thing together for years. The comedy + music event of the …
Oprah welcomes some more female comedy to her OWN cable channel this summer, thanks to two stand-up specials hosted by Wanda Sykes that’ll tape in Chicago this week. Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious will tape this Wednesday at Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios. If you’re 21 or older and want to attend the …
And the winner of the first new sitcom to join the ranks of the new FXX programming lineup is…Chozen. FXX, which debuts in September as a younger, hipper offshoot of FX, ordered the animated comedy to series on Thursday. Chozen comes from Grant Dekernion, who’ll write, executive produce and star as …
What’s happening in the comedy world these days… Joan Rivers turns 80 on June 8, and she and her daughter Mellissa will be part of a special edition of ABC’s Celebrity Wife Swap later this month, as they’re swapping with Bristol and Willow Palin? That’s June 23. Next week, E! …
