The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jimmy Fallon has built a comedy career on his uncanny impersonations, and even more so since given the five-nights-a-week platform on NBC’s Late Night. He has performed several parody songs that proved popular enough to “go viral” and even prompted the Boss, Bruce Springsteen, to join Fallon as Bob Dylan …
Marc Maron has benefited greatly in the past couple of years since he began his WTF podcast and earned not only much-deserved respect but a newfound audience, and in the comedy issue of Paste magazine, Maron is paying it forward with his five comedians to watch in 2012. And they …
Comedy Central Presents is dead. Long live Comedy Central Presents! In its place, starting in 2012, is The Half Hour. As in past seasons, the half-hour stand-up showcases debut lat on Friday nights. This season opens with back-to-back episodes at 11 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, 10 p.m. Central/Mountain, on Friday, May 11, …
Could Bo Burnham be the next comedy giant? No, seriously. Look at him. He’s already as tall as Conan O’Brien, and he’s still growing! Burnham dropped the piano for this performance, but he still employed music in some interesting ways. And he also loves to comment on the art form …
Finally, someone takes on the insidious laziness of Facebook birthday notes. Keith Alerbstadt was back on Late Show with David Letterman over the weekend, and he took that on and more, including people who rescue pets, gambling, NFL quarterbacks and more. Roll the clip!
Here’s something decidedly retro for something decidedly new-school: Marc Maron is putting out a box-set of CDs (with DVD) of his WTF podcast. It’s two discs. Only 1,000 copies will be sold. Take note! It includes the first 100 episodes of WTF with Marc Maron, which also include conversations with …
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The most remarkable thing about this week’s Saturday Night Live, with Josh Brolin returning to host, was how unremarkable the sketches were. I mean. Trust me. I’ve got remarks. You’ve got remarks. But if there’s anything to say about SNL in mid-April 2012, it’s this: You know that feeling seniors …
On NBC’s Community, they typically use the minute-long final segment (why does NBC break up their shows this way again? to disrupt your DVRs? yes, I think that’s why) to produce a non-sequitur scene. And it often stars or features Troy (Donald Glover) and Abed (Danny Pudi). At the end …
BET announced several new scripted and “semi-scripted” TV series at its upfront presentation, including a show for Kevin Hart (the supposed next big thing in comedy for more than a hot minute now) and the next generation of Wayans brothers. Hart will star in House Husbands, a partially-scripted comedy about …
