The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Here’s something you don’t see every night. Or any night, really. An openly gay stand-up comedian performing stand-up on an American late-night TV show. And he’s Canadian! That’s the scandalous part. Here is Trevor Boris on Conan. Roll the clip.
I’ll take Malcolm X to block, please. Seriously. I’m happy that some of my friends are getting TV work, but Hip Hop Squares? Hip hop has passed Hollywood and gone jumped a Shark Tank on Friday nights on ABC. And yet. Some comedians I like are on this. The cast …
Do you remember where you were when Kristen Wiig first appeared on Saturday Night Live as just one of a couple of a-holes, and then all of a sudden she was dominating seasons with her recurring characters, and then, just like that, seven years have passed and it’s time for …
For the first time in 13 years, Conan O’Brien paid a visit to David Letterman’s TV talk show. O’Brien took over NBC’s Late Night show from Letterman when the latter bolted to CBS for an 11:35 p.m. slot, all because NBC chose Jay Leno over Letterman. Now O’Brien knows that …
When Neal Brennan‘s episode of The Half Hour debuts on Comedy Central this Friday night, it may very well be the first time you’ve ever seen that much of Brennan’s stand-up comedy. At least, as delivered by Brennan himself. But you’re certainly familiar with his comedy. Brennan co-wrote Half Baked …
After a five-month battle with urethral cancer that he shared with fans and friends through daily Facebook posts and regular YouTube videos, comedian Ron Shock died today. He was 69. Ron Shock began his comedy career relatively late at the age of 40 but did so in Houston where he was …
If you don’t know Brody Stevens, either personally or even by following his Twitter feed @BrodyismeFriend, then I’m not sure quite how to explain him to you. Oh, wait. What’s that? That’s my job, to explain him to you? Alrighty then. Steven Brody Stevens has pitched for Arizona State, appeared …
There’s the phrase “came out of nowhere,” and then there’s the reality of it. Over at NBC’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, the show recently turned to Jeff Singer — one of the programming consultants for Montreal’s Just For Laughs (hold on, scratch that, revise it to show his LinkedIn …
Hannibal Buress has a new CD and DVD coming out next week, hot off the heels of his Comedy Central special, “Animal Furnace.” To help promote it, Buress went on Conan last night. Want a taste? Roll the clip!
For the third consecutive year, The Kennedy Center is going relatively young with its pick for the annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor, selecting Ellen DeGeneres for the honor in 2012. That’s no knock against DeGeneres. At 54, Ellen dances smoothly past all of her daytime talk-show competitors. Her …
