The Definitive Guide to Comedy
For his next episode of his spin-off video podcast, Serious Jibber-Jabber With Conan O’Brien, O’Brien reunites with his former co-workers from the writers’ room of The Simpsons to discuss the early days of the FOX animated classic. Al Jean, Mike Reiss, Jay Kogen, and Jeff Martin talk about comedy, fatherhood and how …
Pete Lee made his debut last night on Late Show with Dqvid Letterman. Lee, who appears weekly on the new version of VH1’s Best Week Ever and just shared his tips with The Comic’s Comic on entering and winning stand-up comedy competitions, poked fun at himself for his name, his …
Anyone who has followed Bo Burnham’s burgeoning comedy career from his bedroom out to the comedy clubs and theaters literally has seen him and his comedy grow up. As Burnham has matured, he has shown a fondness for commenting on celebrity and art and comedy — and his new MTV …
So you want to win a comedy contest? Sounds like fun, right? Maybe if you win. But first, you have to enter the competition. Submit a tape (wait, what’s a tape? A tape is what we used to record video on, and keep separately from the camera, make physical copies …
Nate Bargatze returned to perform on Conan again on Monday night, but some friends and family also joined him on the TBS stage in story form. So congrats to Luis J. Gomez for his first de facto late-night TV appearance? Wait. Does it count if you’re mentioned as falling victim …
You may not know that you’re already following the career of comedian Mike Burns, unless you already know that Burns also types out observations on life as Michigan resident Karl Welzein, aka @DadBoner. His online alter-ego has amassed more than 133,000 followers on Twitter, and a gig contributing dadboner columns …
Spoiler alert. One of the subplots to the season six premiere of Mad Men — timed to the Christmas and New Year’s holidays at the end of 1967 — placed one of Peggy’s ad campaigns in peril thanks to a stand-up comedian’s performance on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. …
Ross Bennett made his network television debut over the weekend on Late Show with David Letterman. Bennett joked about how the New York he grew up in differs just a little bit from the New York City he’s in now. But his feelings upon finding a parking space in Manhattan …
In only her second time hosting Saturday Night Live, Melissa McCarthy already has established herself as one of the elites. It’s only a matter of time: Give it a few years, and she’ll be joining the “five-timers club,” too. The differences are both subtle — delivering lines with confidence, and …
The Friars Club Roast of Jack Black brought down the grand ballroom Friday afternoon at the New York Hilton, as upward of 3,000 of New York Friars Club members, dignitaries, celebrities and friends gathered to pay tribute to the actor/musician through one-liner barbs. Bob Saget served as the Roastmaster on …
