The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
After the previous week’s Lindsay Lohan Zombie Apocalypse Experience, some armchair critics speculated that the SNL writing staff held back on their good ideas for this weekend’s episode with Jonah Hill. Well. Let’s see how that theory played out… https://www.hulu.com/watch/338493/saturday-night-live-cold-opening-rush-limbaugh We open cold not with Mitt Romney (hooray!!!) but with …
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock kicks off the second season of his Hulu series, A Day in the Life, with a look at comedian and WTF podcast host Marc Maron. You’ll see Maron’s cats, his coffee-making prowess, his “cat garage” where he produces most episodes of WTF, including the first part …
Eddie Pepitone is a Los Angeles comedian from New York whom you may know from his small role in the movie, Old School, or…why don’t I just let you watch these comedians tell you who Pepitone is, in this teaser trailer for the upcoming documentary on him called The Bitter …
In case you missed it, IFC aired a special 10-minute sneak peek at its upcoming Comedy Bang! Bang! “talk show” last night following the second-season finale of Portlandia. But since the Internet is all-knowing and all-giving, you didn’t miss it. It’s right here. Online. Waiting for you. Fans of the …
