The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In 1997, Mike Scott was a teen-aged aspiring comedian who wrote to Phil Hartman seeking advice about entering the world of show business. Sixteen years later, Scott is helping preserve and share a rare piece of Hartman’s comedic legacy, a multi-voice album the late comedian recorded before he made it …
The fourth season of NBC’s Community is the first without its creator and spiritual meta-guide, but will it be the last for the sitcom that likes to focus entire episodes poking fun at popular TV tropes? Not if Sony Pictures Television has anything to say about it. Or, at least …
Jay Larson was back on Conan on Monday night for another stand-up performance. For his next trick, Larson shared with the audience his experience accepting a call on his cell phone from a number he didn’t know. What happened next? Not your ordinary wrong number. Larson explains his new business …
Doug Stanhope brought his latest stand-up comedy tour into New York City, with gigs Sunday and Monday night at B.B. King’s in Times Square, and sat in for a memorable Monday-morning discussion with the Opie & Anthony show on SiriusXM satellite radio. It opened with some lighthearted discussion about the …
Comedians used to complain about performing in any comedy club that put comment cards on the tables for audience members to fill out after the show. How many comedians long for those days now, now that the Internet and social media allows every audience member at every stand-up comedy show …
“I made this pilot for a travel show last summer. It was rejected, but you can watch it here.” — Kyle Kinane Toy Plane uploaded the video seven months ago, but it only started racking up views over the weekend. Thanks, in part, to my friends at Connected Comedy. The …
Zach Galifianakis is back for his third time as Saturday Night Live host in as many years. Or in as many movie installments of The Hangover. That’s something. A vote of confidence in stand-up comedians joining live sketch comedy. Or merely a reflection of the inevitability of movie-making and big …
Joe Matarese has been on Late Show with David Letterman before. But now he is getting older (we’re all getting older, don’t you know), and Matarese is recognizing some of the signs of his own middle age in his most recent stand-up performance on Letterman this week. For one thing, he’s on …
Tone Bell is happy to have a job. You’ve seen him recently on the second season of NBC’s Whitney, and even more recently on Thursday night’s episode of Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson on CBS. But in this stand-up clip, Bell jokes about how he’s not as rich and …
“Are you good?” Marc Maron asks the question sincerely after I enter his hotel room in Midtown Manhattan, catching the comedian amid a day full of back-to-back phone interviews with the media. Not “Are we good?” nor the colloquial “We good?” that has become a commonplace catch-all catchphrase of sorts …
