The Definitive Guide to Comedy
My friends over at Slacktory, after receiving a request from New Yorker TV critic Emily Nussbaum, assembled a medley mix video of “it’s not TV” clips from the TV. Intentional irony! Note: It just so happened that I spotted the same scene from rookie ABC sitcom The Neighbors that inspired …
Kate Micucci and Riki Lindhome named their musical comedy duo Garfunkel and Oates. So, wouldn’t you know, someday John Oates of Hall and Oates would find out about them. What happened next? Micucci and Lindhome share that story, lovingly animated by the team at UCB Comedy for their series, “Animated …
Rob Delaney has upward of 765,000 followers of his Twitter feed @robdelaney. Maybe even more than that now. What you read on his Twitter, however, and what you actually can hear him say on network TV are two very different things. For one, you can’t say much of what Delaney …
A fat comedian faces a quandary: Are audiences laughing at him or her because he or she is fat, or only because he or she is fat? For your long-term health and well-being, you’re best off losing weight. Can you not have your cake without eating it onstage in a …
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 …
Joe Rogan is probably best known for making people who are desperate for money eat animal parts and jump off buildings. You may also recognize Rogan from his younger days on NewsRadio or more recent days providing commentary at UFC fights. For his stand-up and podcast, however, he is known for …
After a brief interruption, NBC’s Community returned for its belated fourth season earlier this month. Cast members of the sitcom and their fans have used the Twitter hashtag #sixseasonsandamovie in a bit of wish fulfillment over the past couple of years. Could that still happen? Perhaps. Of course. Anything. Is. …
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Catskills attracted the crowds and the comedians alike. Several decades later, it’s a much different story. CBS Sunday Morning profiled the upstate New York conclave, and how “Borscht Belt” comedy has survived the changes by moving to where the audiences are. “Every comic did …
The Streamy Awards went live, online and upscale on Sunday for its third annual celebration of web series. Chris Hardwick hosted the live broadcast from Los Angeles, just under a couple of hours from hosting another live broadcast (Talking Dead for millions of AMC viewers on the TV). Burning Love …
Congratulations to all of the writers who took home prizes from the 2013 WGA Awards, as well as all of the writers nominated by their Writers Guild of America. Here are the comedy-related winners in bold, with their fellow nominees in those categories: TELEVISION COMEDY SERIES Louie, Written by Pamela …
