The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The 72nd annual Peabody Awards recognized several comedies from 2012 and cited Lorne Michaels for his career accomplishments in comedy. From the University of Georgia and handed out since 1941, the George Foster Peabody Awards recognize distinguished achievement and meritorious service by broadcasters, cable and Webcasters, producing organizations, and individuals. …
Look out, Comedy Central and IFC. Watch it, Leno, Letterman, Kimmel and Conan. FX officially is slicing right up the middle with its announcement today of an all-new comedy network/channel on cable, branded FXX — complete with a slew of renewals for its existing comedy series and an upgrade of …
People were going Hollywood long before Bing Crosby starred in the 1933 film musical Going Hollywood. Certainly, though, countless unknowns have packed their bags and moved to Los Angeles in the years and decades since then, hoping for show business to discover them and make them a star! New York …
A few years ago, Daniel Tosh invited Carrot Top on his hit Comedy Central show, Tosh.0, to give him a rubdown. Sounds weird, or just about right for a Tosh.0 premise. This week found the successful prop comedian born as Scott Thompson (never to be confused with Scott Thompson of …
Emily Heller made her late-night TV debut last night on Conan. Heller, who also just debuted a new webseries through Above Average called “The Future” (in which she gives tarot card readings to funny friends), jokes here about her past — from school yearbook messages, her sudden onset insanity upon …
If you saw InAPPropriate Comedy on the big screen over the weekend, then perhaps you were the person I saw and heard laughing, well, inappropriately in the cinema. The sketch comedy film grossed $156,414 in its opening weekend at the box office at 275 theaters nationwide, for an average of …
As a comedian, Tom Shillue has several credits to his name, including The Daily Show, Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the film Mystery Team, and multiple national TV commercials. Shillue is on tour with Jim Gaffigan this spring, and he’s also midway through an ambitious 12 CDs in 12 months …
A cautionary tale from Sean Dailey, an aspiring comedian in Grand Rapids, Mich., who began performing stand-up comedy in 2012. About a month ago, I drove to Detroit for a comedy competition. I was cocky coming off my biker bar win, and I had recently advanced to the semi-finals of …
From Zaandam, the Netherlands, comes this footage of a woman fast asleep during an improv comedy show. The troupe members — Tijl Beckand, Ruben van der Meer, Jamai Loman, Tygo Gernandt en Rick Paul van Mulligen — stops what they’re doing to strip down to their underwear, surround her, and …
“Perhaps I do get stared at a lot because I am a heavily tattooed woman, but I am also a Korean woman, and I feel I have the right to be naked in the Korean spa with other Korean women. I don’t feel shame that my skin is decorated. My …
