The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Here is your obligatory topical video of the day, featuring President Barack Obama, making a phone call to help get out the vote for his re-election campaign this fall. On the other end of the phone? Harold & Kumar!? The movie trilogy stoners, played by actors John Cho and Kal …
David Letterman, Paul Shaffer and the gang at the Ed Sullivan Theatre celebrated 19 years with CBS on Thursday night’s edition of Late Show with David Letterman. Just as impressive — if not more so? Letterman invited stand-up comedian Brian Regan onto the anniversary program to perform for his 25th …
The Purple Onion hosted the stand-up comedy debut of the late Phyllis Diller, and has played host to live CD and DVD recordings for, among others, The Smothers Brothers, Zach Galifianakis and Moshe Kasher. Woody Allen, Lenny Bruce and Richard Pryor all have performed there, too. But this San Francisco …
Dominic Dierkes would not do well in prison. Dierkes will be the first to tell you that, which he did on Thursday night’s episode of Conan. And it’s not just because he is the skinniest member of Derrick Comedy — the sketch/improv group that also includes Donald Glover and DC …
EPIX unveiled a new trailer today for the documentary film about the late Graham Chapman from Monty Python. How Chapman managed to both write in and star in a 3-D animated movie about himself is beyond your comprehension, so you’ll just have to watch A Liar’s Autobiography when it premieres …
While Mike Birbiglia enjoys a successful launch of his semi-autobiographical film, Sleepwalk With Me, Birbiglia’s friend, Henry Phillips (who appears in Sleepwalk) is finding continued success of his own from his 2010 film, Punching the Clown. On Thursday, Showtime announced it would develop an TV series adaptation of Punching the …
Fewer people have had as much of an impact on Conan O’Brien’s three late-night TV talk shows as has Brian McCann. Late Night with Conan O’Brien was still trying to prove its worth to NBC in 1995 when McCann joined the show’s writing staff and supporting performing players (though McCann …
Every four years, the two major political parties in the United States of America meet in late summer to make formal their nominees for president and vice president, set party platforms, and mostly just party. As recently as a generation ago, the conventions held at least a modicum of drama …
Do you remember Adam Hunter from the sixth season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing? Do you remember Last Comic Standing? Do you even remember NBC? If so, then you don’t need to wonder any longer what Hunter has been up to recently, because you could have seen him Wednesday night …
The viewing audience has spoken! Their votes last night put stand-up comedian Tom Cotter through to the finals of the 2012 season of NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Cotter, a 48-year-old who won the Seattle competition in 1994 and Boston’s contest in 2004, is the first comedian to reach the finals …
