The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Synergy! Bruce Willis stars in A Good Day to Die Hard, the fifth installment in the Die Hard movie franchise. Yes, there are five of them now. And Willis already has said a sixth Die Hard is on the way. Mostly to keep pace with Fast and the Furious movies, …
Congratulations to Neal Brennan, Dov Davidoff, Michael Kosta, Kevin Smith and Ali Wong, who are the first named comedians (and filmmaker/talker — looking at you, Kevin Smith!) to film their own mini-sitcoms for network TV today under the auspices of FOX’s Shortcom Comedy Hour. Smith talked about his deal this …
Jackie Kashian made her late-night TV debut last night on Conan, and what did we learn? For one thing, marrying a nerd who plays video games and reads comic books is good for fidelity and security, because it “keeps him off the pipe, keeps him off the pole.” For another, …
Hasan Minhaj hosts the new MTV weekly series, Failosophy, premiering Thursday night and shining the harsh spotlight of reality on our everyday failures online — via text message, Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram and elsewhere else mistakes are made. Minhaj chatted exclusively with The Comic’s Comic to provide some real-life advice …
If you’ve been following the discussion regarding stand-up comedians, the Upright Citizens Brigade Theaters in New York City, and the issue of whether a comedy community can be communal and eschew capitalism whilst also trying to make money to pay bills and employees, too… Or if you haven’t, brush up …
Are women funny? Are you funny? That’s a fairer, more legitimate question. In a new documentary by stand-up comedian Bonnie McFarlane, shot with her husband, comedian Rich Vos, Women Aren’t Funny wisely takes a humorous approach to the topic. “It seems so obvious to me that women are funny, that to …
It’s a concept so nice they done did it twice! A very special Academy Awards edition of “Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis” returned this week with part two of the “Oscar Buzz” talk, as Galifianakis has his Hangover co-star (and Oscar nominee for Silver Linings Playbook) Bradley Cooper sitting …
There once was a time when stand-up comedians who performed on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson didn’t know when they’d actually appear on the TV show. They recorded their sets separately in front of the appropriate live studio audience, to be sure, but those sets aired later. Sometimes much …
Has any stand-up comedian performed more stand-up sets on David Letterman’s shows than Jake Johannsen? Think about it for a moment. Johannsen has performed more than 40 times on Letterman’s late-night shows, dating back to his NBC Late Night overnights in the 1980s. For his first appearance on Late Show …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Christina Applegate abruptly left the NBC sitcom Up All Night, while the show is on hiatus to be retooled as a multi-cam for planned new episodes this spring. No word on whether her role will be recast and how that it’ll impact her …
