The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If the Republican presidential field, the inaction of Congress and the European debt crisis makes you suspect that Lewis Black might go off on a bit of a rant, well, your suspicions would be well-founded but misplaced. Because that’s not what has Black’s attention in In God We Rust, the …
This NBC “Rock Center” profile of the Upright Citizens Brigade is great and all, but something about it, seems, well, a bit dated. Perhaps it’s because the main interviews happened several months ago when the UCBeast launch happened. Yep. That’s it. Still nice, though. Hi, Amy Poehler and Matt Walsh!
Leo Anthony Gallagher Jr., known to audiences as the watermelon-smashing comedian Gallagher, suffered another heart attack on Wednesday and was placed in a medically-induced coma. Gallagher’s manager told the Huffington Post that he was placed in the coma Thursday — following his heart attack on Wednesday night in Texas — …
Will Ferrell is making the promotional rounds for his new movie, Casa de mi Padre, which arrives in a cinema near you on Friday, March 16, 2012. It co-stars Gael Garcia Bernal and Diego Luna. And it’s all in Spanish. Que? Si. Last night on Jimmy Kimmel Live, Kimmel did …
George Lopez is in the midst of a national stand-up comedy tour that runs through the summer — he has four shows over two nights this weekend (March 16-17, 2012) at Best Buy Theater in Times Square — but he has his sights on a return to the small screen …
Comedy Central has begun consolidating its various digital entities, and that means switching domain names of Atom.com and Jokes.com to fall under the main Comedy Central umbrella. Up first, CC: Studios — which has taken all of the various web series and “viral” video candidates that had appeared on Atom.com …
Adam Norwest, a Seattle comedian who began performing improv at the tender age of 13, has won CMT’s 2012 edition of its Next Big Comic contest. Here is his victory video. Congrats! Roll it! The contest, held in partnership with Rooftop Comedy, relies solely on online voting. This year Norwest …
A few deadlines coming up this spring that offer comedians the opportunity for greater glory on the small screen. First up, a televised sketch comedy competition?! Yes. And it’s called The Biggest Laugh, brought to “a major broadcast network” soon by executive producers Jack Black and Joel Gallen, Tenth Planet, …
Community comes back from a brief hiatus this Thursday (March 15, 2012) to NBC’s lineup, and if you live in or near New York City, you can watch it live along with Jeff Winger himself. Joel McHale is performing one-night-only at Carolines on Broadway that night, with shows at 7 …
You may be familiar with the NPR quiz-show staple, “Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me.” But in Britain, they’d already been having fun with the news on a weekly basis for two decades before “Wait Wait” with “The News Quiz.” And with the 2012 U.S. Presidential campaign hitting full stride, the BBC …
