The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Conan O’Brien had a tough act to follow Saturday night as headliner at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner. President Barack Obama killed with his 23-minute feature spot. President Obama, following Ed Henry from FOX News (who served as the host/opening act), joked that he “had 99 problems, and now …
Myq Kaplan returned for another performance last night on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. It was Kaplan’s second appearance on the show this month, taped earlier in April when he originally was scheduled to tell jokes but bumped from that night’s telecast due to time constraints. Ferguson’s, not Kaplan’s. …
What are the odds of this? A comedian auditioning last night for NBC’s 2013 summer season of America’s Got Talent performs well, only to be accused by judge Howie Mandel of lifting the bit from another stand-up comedian — who happened to be AGT’s warm-up audience comic that very night …
UPDATE: The writers for E!’s Fashion Police with Joan Rivers have sent another missive to the cable network. Writers went on strike last week, seeking fair pay from E! under a contract with the Writers Guild of America. Apparently, the network wants the writers to hold an election first to …
Leah Bonnema, a NYC-based stand-up comedian seen in clubs, on radio/podcasts or TV via WeTV, Logo and VH1, offers this list of things people say to comedians but really shouldn’t ever say. In general I believe people mean well. And I should be so lucky that anyone was interested in …
Cheech & Chong celebrated an extra-special 4/20 week in 2013 with a big smokin’ promotional tour, capped off Thursday afternoon with a surprise visit from an unsurprising big fan in hip-hop icon Snoop Dogg during the comedy duo’s “Town Hall” recording for SiriusXM. And if we’re supposed to call Calvin …
Jimmy Kimmel raised a glass, and another glass, and another, and another, and another to toast his fellow influencers on TIME magazine’s arbitrary list of who’s who in influencing 2013. With his once and future late-night TV competitor Jimmy Fallon handing him drinks, Kimmel toasted Lena Dunham, Bassem Youssef, Fallon, …
At a screening earlier this month of The Greatest Movie Ever Rolled at the Friars Club Comedy Film Festival, and elsewhere, Doug Benson readily concedes that he had wanted to follow up to The High Road — a 2009 road documentary for G4 that he’d hoped the cable channel would …
Starting Sept. 1, 2013, your search for any of your favorite sketches and digital shorts from Saturday Night Live will lead you to Yahoo! Seriously. Yahoo!’s CEO, Marissa Mayer, announced the deal Wednesday night, writing: “As a lifelong Saturday Night Live fan, it is nearly impossible for me to pick …
Kate McKinnon has many stand-out impersonations she has showcased already on Saturday Night Live, but the one with the biggest profile (especially in comedy) is comedian and talk-show queen Ellen DeGeneres. On today’s episode of Ellen (The Ellen DeGeneres Show), DeGeneres finally welcomed McKinnon to her show. Of course, she …
