The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Adult Swim announced a special one-off series finale on March 7 for Delocated, starring Jon Glaser. Sarah Silverman will kick off the second annual Wayne Federman International Film Festival when it returns to CineFamily in Los Angeles from Feb. 28 through March 2. Wayne Federman’s …
FX will go live this week for the return of Russell Brand’s late-night talk show, BrandX with Russell Brand. It’s the fourth format for BrandX in its fourth different “season” since June. Almost as if FX executives keep saying to Russell Brand, “We like you. We just don’t like your …
In this brave not-so-brave old new world, stand-up comedians can record, produce and distribute their material however they so desire. And in 2013, Harland Williams chose to record “Force of Nature” in the desert. The Mojave Desert. On Monday night’s episode of Conan, Williams explained why the comedy clubs could …
Stand-up comedian Andy Andrist recently tracked down the man who sexually abused Andrist when he was a boy, traveled to Florida and confronted him in person. With Doug Stanhope (and a police officer?) standing by, Andrist sat down with this man who had molested him and wanted answers. Or at least …
Football season is over. Long live football. Which means Americans can turn their attention later this February to the phrase “pitchers and catchers report” for another Spring Training for Major League Baseball. For the second straight season, MLB will let fans rule the roost at the MLB Fan Cave in …
Who would you include in an exhaustive list of the most iconic stand-up comics and performances? Surely greats like Richard Pryor, George Carlin, and Bill Hicks would be included. And such a list could not be told without performances like Lenny Bruce’s Carnegie Hall concert. If you are going to …
Nick Griffin returned to Late Show with David Letterman on Friday night’s show, with an introduction fit for one of Dave’s favored stand-up comedians. What wisdom does Griffin have to share with us this time? That depends upon how old you are, and how you feel about work, sleep, and …
Unless you lived in the area of Texas near Sherman, Denison and Ardmore, then your Super Bowl XLVII ad time on Sunday night didn’t include this minute-long ode to Old Milwaukee, in which Will Ferrell made one bus passenger’s lucky day. Except we live on the Internet now. So Old …
If you didn’t watch all of Hillary Rodham Clinton’s testimony before the U.S. Senate committee that asked hours upon hours of questions about Benghazi recently, then you may have glossed over a moment in which U.S. Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) interrogated Clinton about a State Department trip that spent $100,000 …
Reggie Watts became the first musical performer this week on FX’s Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell. Watts dropped some beats, some rhymes and a whole lot of rhythm and blues and funk and soul and sister, just listen to the track he laid down. Roll the clip!
