The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Robert Schimmel “wanted to be the next Barry Manilow, for some unknown reason,” according to his younger brother, Jeff. Instead, Robert wrote the jokes that made the whole world laugh, and titter, and repeat to their friends. When Robert Schimmel died in 2010 following a car accident at the age …
Comix may be no more, but the comedian who co-launched that former New York City comedy club is still performing. Hey, that’s something Bobby Collins has in common with Jimmy Fallon. Sort of. You know. Speaking of which… Bobby Collins dropped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon last night. Because …
Attention, YouTubers! Rob Riggle and his comedic colleagues who co-star in Riggle’s new webseries, “Coogan Auto,” have fired a shot across your bows. In their short promotional video, “Real Actors Against Web Videos,” Riggle, JB Smoove, Horatio Sanz, Jake Johnson and Alison Becker lump YouTube video-makers together as a sad, …
Live at Gotham may be no more, but there’s an even more literally live live stand-up comedy showcase debuting at Gotham Comedy Club this Thursday night. Mark Cuban’s AXS TV (formerly HDNet) will debut Gotham Comedy Live at 10 p.m. EST Thursday. The hour-long showcase will feature five comedians each week …
Listeners and viewers of “The Nick and Artie Show” tonight will find no Nick there. Nick DiPaolo “is pursuing some great opportunities,” according to that show’s Facebook page, which posted over the weekend that when the satellite sports talk show returns tonight, it’ll be known on DirecTV and SiriusXM simply …
In case you missed it, Tina Fey and Amy Poehler performed brilliantly as co-hosts of the 2013 Golden Globes awards ceremony. So much so that many viewers lamented their absence during the middle portion of the live broadcast on Sunday night. But who won? Aside from Lena Dunham and her …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Matt and Trey of South Park announced they’re opening their own studio. From the press release: “Trey Parker and Matt Stone, the co-creators of “South Park” and “The Book of Mormon,” and The Raine Group, a boutique merchant bank focused exclusively on entertainment, …
If you caught David Letterman’s sit-down interview with Oprah Winfrey last weekend, then you might have noticed ads promoting a special “sneak peek” at a series called My Life is a Joke. Well, it’s not a series just yet. But it is something special — a televised look at five …
Restaurants receive grades from the health department and media alike. Hotels partner up with AAA. And now Comedy Central is looking to put its unofficial official seal of approval on a comedy club near you with its new “Comedy Central Certified Club” program. CCCC, anyone? 4C? Mitch Fried, executive vice …
