The Definitive Guide to Comedy
“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! …
Andy Kindler is not only a correspondent for Late Show with David Letterman, he’s also sometimes asked to showcase his stand-up comedy on the program. As he did again last night. In this set, Kindler jokes about hotels that put life concepts into their names, the origination of phrases such …
Was recreating the opening credits to Simon & Simon the “greatest event in television history”? No. No, it was not. Don’t take my word for it. That’s just one of the lines handed to Jeff Probst as he once again hosts a new special event for Adult Swim, in which …
Comedy Central has unveiled a new CC: Stand-Up app for iPhones and iPads and iPod Touches. It’s free for those devices only so far at www.AppStore.com/CCStandUp. A quote from today’s press release: “At its simplest, CC: Stand-Up is a digitally distributed, pure stand-up channel, in which fans can immerse themselves for …
Stephen Fry disclosed this week that he had attempted to kill himself last year with a mixture of pills and vodka. ‘You may say, “How can anybody who’s got it all be so stupid as to want to end it all?” That’s the point, there is no “why?” That’s not …
Maria Bamford is portraying her mother in a webseries again, but this time it’s not so much to help herself as much as it is to help you understand Bamford or anything else you might have on your mind. “Ask My Mom” debuted last week on My Damn Channel. The …
