The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Nick DiPaolo and Artie Lange have even more fans to hear them talk sports and joke about sports, as they’ve added SiriusXM to their listenership. The Nick & Artie Show, hosted by Lange and DiPaolo and produced by DIRECTV Entertainment weeknights from 10 p.m. to 1 a.m. Eastern, arrived to Sirius …
Todd Barry returned to Late Show with David Letterman last night, just days before his new one-hour stand-up release, “Todd Barry: Super Crazy,” hits Comedy Central, your CD and DVD stacks, iTunes files and video-game consoles. In this clip, Barry explains why, if he had to go to prison, he’d …
Tom Davis, who formed a comedy team with Al Franken before both Franken and Davis became original writers for Saturday Night Live, died today after a lengthy battle with cancer. Davis was 59. Davis won four Emmys for his comedy TV writing. On SNL, he created memorable sketches such as …
Nick Kroll’s Comedy Central sketch series, Kroll Show, doesn’t even debut until 2013. But Kroll and his friends already had taped a satirical response to Chick-fil-A, whose owner is so ultra-conservative, he thinks homosexuality is a sin. And he doesn’t open his dumb fast-food stores on Sundays, when any good …
Just For Laughs may never have become the world’s largest international group of comedy festivals if not for Andy Nulman. After all, it’s difficult to imagine now. But in its first two years, Just For Laughs only existed for a weekend in Montreal — and only then for its French-speaking …
NBC’s TODAY show today picked the best stand-up comedian. I’ll give you three guesses. No, it wasn’t you. No, it wasn’t the show that picked, but the wine-drinking duo of Kathie Lee Gifford and Hoda Kotb. And not, they weren’t really out to find the best stand-up comedian. Rather, this …
Emmy nominations came out, per usual, in the wee hours of the morning so the big three broadcast TV morning shows could cover it live — followed by frantic press releases and phone calls to and from the happy honorees, their publicists, and the rest of the mainstream media. Did …
Comedian Scott Moran launched a new “weekly documentary Web series” on Monday called “Modern Comedian,” looking into the on- and offstage lives of stand-up comedians. Moran, from Washington State and now based in New York City, posed his first examination this week at Kurt Braunohler (above), the host of IFC’s …
David Crowe has been a stand-up stalwart in Seattle for two decades, and now he’s ready to help his fellow touring comedians cash in on another way to make audiences laugh — their very own greeting-card line. Called “Frank & Funny,” Crowe launched the line with Seattle-based Compendium, Inc., last …
When Louis CK wrote a Tweet last week expressing his joy over Comedy Central’s Tosh.0, he had no idea about the Internet commotion going on right then about a comment Daniel Tosh had directed to a female heckler in the audience at The Laugh Factory. So Louis CK explained how he …
