The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Seth MacFarlane’s foul-mouthed teddy bear of a movie, Ted, has earned more than $500 million in box-office receipts around the world since hitting your nearby cineplex in June, despite its R rating by the MPAA. Remarkable? Certainly. But tops in the business? Not quite. Not yet. Top 10 Rated-R comedy …
For someone who is one of the biggest stand-up comedy draws in the world, Russell Peters doesn’t appear all that often on the American late-night talk show circuit. Peters recently did Jimmy Kimmel Live for the first time in seven years, and last night performed for the first time on Late …
There are TV commercials, there is product placement, and then there is the hybrid ad. As I learned from my time behind the lines with Nielsen, a “hybrid ad” seamlessly walks the lines that criss-cross among traditional advertising, old-fashioned sponsorship and subtle product placements. The seamlessness is intentional — you’re …
For many years, Craig Shoemaker proved that pervy was funny. Or at least sounding pervy could be very funny. His vocal impersonations of “The Lovemaster” filled comedy clubs with laughter across America, and in 1997, he won the American Comedy Award for Funniest Male Stand-Up Comic. That was two wives …
Viacom can keep feting Eddie Murphy once a year if they really must. It’s all good by us. Last year, Comedy Central and the Viacom network of channels presented Eddie Murphy with an Icon Award. This month, it was Spike TV paying tribute to Murphy with an all-star collection of …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Comedy Bang! Bang! is ending its 10-year-run as a live stand-up showcase in Los Angeles with a big bang of its own, as founder/producer Scott Aukerman wraps up his involvement with it as a live show with IFC’s “2012 Comedy Bang! Bang! Nativity Pageant.” …
By Joshua Marston, writer/director of Maria Full of Grace, and director of recent episodes of Newsroom and The Good Wife. Neither that movie nor those TV shows were comedies, but this flow chart is just as applicable, and much more humorous. Via NPR’s Planet Money.
Samuel Comroe made his late-night TV debut last night on Conan, thanks to Ricky Gervais, and even more specifically, thanks to Comroe winning Gervais’ Just Sayin App contest. Comroe joked about living with Tourette’s, and also received an invite from Conan O’Brien to sit down for a panel interview segment. …
In what other competition but the Andy Kaufman Awards will you find a juggler competing against a ventriloquist, a street performer, two actors in character and two stand-up comedians? No, not America’s Got Talent. At the Andy Kaufman Awards finals, these Americans really do have talent. There is no Gong …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Brandon T. Jackson officially has landed the lead role in the CBS TV reboot of Beverly Hills Cop — Jackson will play the son of Axel Foley (Eddie Murphy). The TV series will catch back up with Foley and his son, a generation …
