The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
Cristela Alonzo made her late-night TV debut last night on Conan. She does, however, already have other TV credits to her name, including Last Comic Standing, and stand-up showcases for Comedy Central and Showtime. Alonzo explained in last night’s set that she realizes the things she can and cannot do …
David Letterman long has held a soft spot for comedians of his own generation, particularly if he was part of their circle in the Los Angeles comedy scene of the 1970s. After hearing about Gallagher’s recent health and financial problems, Letterman invited the famous watermelon-smashing prop comedian from the 1980s …
It’s always nice to see another McCarthy succeed in the comedy business, even if it’s not a relative (but if it’s a dummy, then, well, you’re old like me and get the reference). Moody McCarthy had been bumped from an episode of Late Show with David Letterman earlier in the …
Just like The Roots, comedian Big Jay Oakerson is a Philadelphia boy. Well, he’s a big man now. He even put it in his stage name. Anyhow, Oakerson made his debut on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, and wasn’t afraid to talk about his love of the Philadelphia Eagles and …
