The Definitive Guide to Comedy
A year ago, Saturday Night Live prepared a finale tribute for Kristen Wiig. What will the show do for Bill Hader this week? Hader has announced he is leaving SNL when his eighth season wraps up this coming Saturday night. “It was a hard decision, but it has to happen …
Welcome to Upfronts! The annual TV pageant in which each network puts its new shows and returning hit series on display for potential advertisers. This differs from the summer and winter press tours only insomuch as these parades of stars aren’t explicitly for the TV Critics Association — no dedicated press-conference …
When you think of YouTube and comedy, you’re not usually looking for an Arnold Schwarzenegger impersonation, but maybe you’re looking for a supercut of Ahnold being Ahnold. How about a promotional video by him for YouTube Comedy Week? That’s served up right here hot and fresh overnight and ready for …
This essay is republished with permission from the author. Jim Tews wrote “An Open Letter From a Decent, White Male Comic” in response to several recent blog posts, Twitter fights and Facebook comment threads about comedy, gender and the appropriateness of certain jokes. And yes, it’s also in response to …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
The writers for E!’s Fashion Police with Joan Rivers have been on strike for a couple of weeks, and they’re a bit restless. How restless? They’ve started loitering in other people’s offices and cracking the jokes they could be writing for TV. This is their video for Funny or Die. …
The return of a longtime favorite cast member as host of Saturday Night Live almost certainly calls for a trip down memory lane of that actor or actresses most popular recurring characters from SNLs past. Kristen Wiig’s first-time hosting SNL, one year removed from her “graduation,” did not depart from …
“If I’m doing my job correctly, it’s going to be a beginning to a new chapter in their life.” That’s stand-up comedian Kirk Fox. But he’s not talking comedy. He’s talking the talk as the host of new daytime syndicated program, The Test. As he noted on his Twitter feed …
Hey, comedy fans! Here’s a new thing. Actually, a few new things. The Comic’s Comic sat down with Erik Griffin this spring before he recorded his first half-hour stand-up comedy special for Comedy Central’s The Half Hour — that debuts tonight at 12:30 a.m. Eastern/Pacific, 11:30 p.m. Central/Mountain. As long …
Andy Kaufman lives! Long live Andy Kaufman! At least on a new CD, or what the grown-ups call music and recorded listening sounds these days, anyhow — which is something Kaufman never experienced in his lifetime. Andy and His Grandmother is a posthumous offering from Drag City Records, featuring material culled from …
