The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
Stand-up comedian Josh Gondelman isn’t unlike most other stand-ups who work the road and also work on their acts in their home cities and clubs. When he’s not onstage, he often fields queries both strange and stranger from the “civilian” population. Gondelman sat down for Thought Catalog, thought about it, …
EPIX revealed its upcoming original programming plans for the rest of 2012, which includes a reunion of the living members of Monty Python for a documentary on the late Graham Chapman, as well as a new stand-up special from Jim Norton. “These original programs are a great complement to the …
Jimmy Fallon and his Late Night crew traveled to the University of North Carolina campus for a special episode of their show for the chance to talk with President Barack Obama on Tuesday night. And did they talk. Obama noted that he hasn’t had much time to keep up with …
Erin Foley made her late-night TV debut as a stand-up comedian last night on Conan, and what did we learn? Foley likes the ladies. She knows more about sports than she does about hair products. Athletes get paid way too much for performances that would not hold up if they …
Conan O’Brien announced on Monday night’s Conan that he and his Team Coco crew would bring their TBS late-night talker back to Chicago this June for a week of tapings that coincides with the 2012 TBS Just For Laughs Chicago comedy festival. O’Brien thus fulfills the promise he made during …
Is there a comedian you’d absolutely love to see in Montreal this July as part of the 30th anniversary of the Just For Laughs festival? Then not only can you voice your opinion to the JFL programming people, but also get a chance to see that performer(s) for yourself! And …
In case you don’t listen to the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast as soon as Earwolf releases a new one to you hounds, then here’s the news as delivered by Scott Aukerman in the third-year finale of CBB: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis is going a full half-hour! On TV! …
First they came for the auto workers, and we said nothing. Then they came for the stand-up comedians, and we said, “Wait, what?” You can’t replace a stand-up comedian with a robot! Or can you? Or can Heather Knight, a “social roboticist” at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who has …
The big four broadcast networks usually are coy when it’s still three to four weeks before their official Upfronts debut presentations to advertisers, but NBC isn’t wasting time, at least with former Friends star Matthew Perry. The Peacock Network announced today that it’d ordered Perry’s latest sitcom venture, Go On, …
