The Definitive Guide to Comedy
James Adomian is a master of impersonations, particularly of comedians. Included in his arsenal of voices, however, was one person that you might not have known much about, unless you were a Californian. Huell Howser, the longtime host of PBS series California’s Gold via Los Angeles station KCET-TV, died Sunday …
It’s the first full week of 2013, and so, too, the last real opportunity to look back on 2012 without feeling like it’s “too soon” or instant nostalgia or living in the past. Instead, when examining what videos, posts and articles on The Comic’s Comic you clicked on most, it’s …
Dan Soder made his late-night TV debut last night on Conan, and killed it. Soder has a great attitude on and off-stage and great jokes to go with it, too. In this performance, Soder makes fun of himself and his generation of Millennials, illustrating it via tattoos; fills us in …
After a hiatus of nine years, Spike TV has brought back reality series spoof/prank The Joe Schmo Show for a third season. When it premieres tonight, it’ll have the same gimmick as before: One of the characters competing for the big cash prize doesn’t know that everyone else on the show …
Congrats go out to Gina Brillon and Jon Laster, who each has earned a one-year talent holding deal with NBCUniversal for winning 2012’s NBC Stand-Up For Diversity talent search. Jon Laster is from Denver but moved to NYC after college to pursue his stand-up career. You can find out more …
Drunk History isn’t the first webseries to become a TV series, but it is among the more celebrated ones to make the jump. Comedy Central announced over the weekend at the TCA press tour that it had ordered eight half-hour episodes of “Drunk History” to air this summer. UPDATED: The …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Sarah Michelle Gellar is looking to bounce back with a sitcom project at 20th Century Fox, written by Shepard Boucher. Anna Faris is topping a CBS pilot from Chuck Lorre in which she’d play a single mom who sobers up in the wine …
Kate Hendricks has embraced what people her outer self — what you may perceive her to be — to create a an inside-out caricature of herself for a webseries called “Kate the WASP.” Kate the WASP’s tagline on Tumblr: “Some days you’re Ann Taylor. Some days you’re Ann Taylor LOFT.” …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Lionsgate announced it would release Kevin Hart’s next stand-up special as a big-screen movie, Kevin Hart: Let Me Explain, on July 4, 2013. The concert film was recorded during two sold-out Madison Square Garden shows in November as part of the New York …
Whether or not he knows this already, this is the complete to-do list for Katt Williams in 2013: TAKE THE REST OF THE YEAR OFF Hey, Katt. You can say you’re retired. You can say you’re unretired. Doesn’t matter to us. Either way, just stop. Just for a moment. Just …
