The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Earlier this year, Robin Williams received the Comedy Icon Award from the second annual reboot of The Comedy Awards. Afterward, Williams met the press assembled backstage (actually, beneath stage level) to answer all sorts of questions. What’s his favorite movie he has done? Blah, blah, blah. You should hear some …
The way that the comedy community has rallied around one of its own, even a still-aspiring stand-up, has been nothing short of amazing this past week in the wake of the shooting massacre in Aurora, Colo. Comedians and comedy fans already have helped raise more than $360,000 to help pay …
Eddie Murphy may have had a hit song back in the day with “Party All the Time” and even hosted the MTV Video Music Awards in 1985, too — but Murphy couldn’t accomplish what Community’s Donald Glover already has in his spare time away from comedy: Score his own VMA …
Eddie Pepitone has serious daddy issues in this new clip released from the forthcoming documentary about Pepitone, The Bitter Buddha. The film premiered at Just For Laughs Chicago last month, and also screened once last week during Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival. In this clip, taken from audio of Pepitone’s …
Melissa Villasenor, last seen by you on your TVs last summer on NBC’s America’s Got Talent (and last seen by Canadians in Montreal’s Just For Laughs shows last week), has unveiled a new impersonation. And it’s none other than new TV hitmaker and stand-up comedian Whitney Cummings. Check it out. …
For the one person who still doesn’t understand the sports included in the Summer Olympics — so you’re that person?!? — BBC America has enlisted American comedian Dave Hill to help explain and demonstrate them. Here he is on the parallel bars. And based on the U.S. men’s gymnastics team …
Paula Poundstone returned to the set of Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson last night. On her mind as July 2012 comes to a close: Stress at home, because her son is attending foosball camp. Foosball camp? Are the Girl Scouts still scout-worthy? Is red meat healthy for you or …
Showtime announced today during the TV Critics Association summer press tour that Inside Comedy had earned a 10-episode second season, which will premiere in January 2013. Among the comedians interviewed by David Steinberg this time around: Ben Stiller, Tina Fey, Judd Apatow, Carol Burnett, Jim Carrey, Albert Brooks and the …
For the second consecutive year, Montreal’s Just For Laughs expanded its New Faces concept to include separate showcases for sketch performers (New Faces Characters) and stand-up comedians who do not yet have agents or managers (New Faces Unrepped). NEW FACES CHARACTERS The New Faces Characters show has the feel of …
Comedy Central has announced the preliminary roster of comedians and celebrities who’ll line up on the dais for the Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne this coming weekend. The roast tapes Aug. 4, and will debut on the cable network on Aug. 12, 2012. Your comedian roasters are, unsurprisingy, “The Roastmaster” …
