The Definitive Guide to Comedy
I’m not sure what the Intelligent Channel is on YouTube or why this exists, but I’m glad it exists. Richard Belzer sat down with Gilbert Gottfried for 20 minutes and talked to him about his jokes — including the Japanese tsunami jokes that got him fired from his Aflac gig, …
Todd Lynn, who had suffered from pancreatic cancer and had lost his eyesight in the past year, died on Friday following heart attacks and a stroke. He was in his 40s. But when he appeared last July on Robert Kelly’s “You Know What Dude” podcast at Montreal’s Just For Laughs …
There are many injustices in the comedy world. One of the biggest remains the fact that we no longer have Phil Hartman’s comedic brilliance to enjoy in new and wonderful roles. Another is realizing that the late Hartman — star of Saturday Night Live, NewsRadio, The Simpsons and more — …
If you think the late-night talk-show format is dead, then perhaps you may be interested to hear about Eric Andre’s new show on Adult Swim, with Hannibal Buress as his sidekick. Adult Swim announced production of The Eric Andre Show, a parody of late-night talkers with Buress playing Andre’s “apathetic …
John Mulaney used to tell the greatest bit that defined all Law & Order stand-up bits. NBC no longer makes new episodes of Law & Order, but the network still has Law & Order: SVU on the schedule, and still has Ice-T on the case as a detective, which amuses Mulaney …
Austin hosts plenty of festivals that keep the city weird with live music, films and comedy. SXSW is the biggest and most well-known. There’s also the Fun Fun Fun Fest. But comedy always is the sideshow to the music. Comedy earns its own place in the sun this April as …
We’re barely a month into the year, and already, 2012 is shaping up to be the year that comedian-on-comedian catfighting becomes a serious issue. In this latest “bout,” we find Chelsea Handler and Joan Rivers trading insults about each other on Howard Stern’s SiriusXM program. Handler fired the first shot …
If you’re on the satellite radio tip, then please remember these Tuesdays to set aside some time at 5 p.m. Eastern to hear Tom Shillue’s new weekly show on Sirius XM’s Laugh USA channel, “Funny Story.” It launched Jan. 10 with guest Jim Gaffigan. The Daily Show‘s Aasif Mandvi sat …
Happy news for comedy fans this morning as the Academy Awards, 84th annual edition, bestowed nominations to some of your favorite comedians and funny films of 2011. And that’s not counting some of the more lighthearted fare receiving serious recognition, too (looking at you, The Artist, Jonah Hill in Moneyball, …
Jon Fisch made his network television debut (proper) on Friday’s Late Show with David Letterman. Fisch is one of them thar Massachusetts comedians based in New York City, and he’s single, ladies! But wait. Fisch has some rules about online dating. So pay attention. Roll the clip.
