The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Patton Oswalt is making the late-night TV rounds to promote his new movie, Young Adult, but when he hit Late Night with Jimmy Fallon, Oswalt wanted to reveal something about his first professional acting gig as a recurring guest star on King of Queens. Namely, that the writers room was …
Following Louis CK’s debut of his stand-up concert film this year, Sundance is going even bigger, it seems, with comedy in 2012. Here is the full list of comedians and comedies you’ll see around Park City during January 2012. IN COMPETITION The Comedy / U.S.A. (Director: Rick Alverson, Screenwriters: Rick Alverson, …
David Wain is back with new episodes of the fifth season of “Wainy Days,” in which he bags all of the hot chicks you’ve dreamed of. Only bagged doesn’t mean what you think it means. You know what I mean. Roll the clips! Future episodes will show up on Mondays, with …
Did you know Steve Buscemi was funny? If you’ve watched an Adam Sandler movie any time in the past decade or more, then probably. Or perhaps you just thought his portrayals of mobsters and old-timey gangsters in The Sopranos and Boardwalk Empire were funny ha-ha in addition to funny weird. …
“Do you win anything here?” Cyndi Lauper asks during the second episode of Would You Rather…? with Graham Norton. That’s the main and maybe only thing holding up BBC America’s introduction of comedy panel “game shows” to the States. Filmed in New York City before live studio audiences, Would You Rather…? …
Last night whilst watching NBC’s Thursday-night comedy lineup, this holiday commercial for Target appeared and brought Chris Gethard into my home (and probably yours). Roll it! In related news, Gethard has a new memoir/autobiographical book of essays coming out in January 2012, titled A Bad Idea I’m About to Do: …
Laurie Kilmartin performed on last year’s edition of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and though she didn’t win the big prize there, she did receive a nice parting gift not too long afterward: A job as a writer for Conan on TBS. On Thursday night’s show, Kilmartin performed stand-up on Conan, …
Michael Kosta changed the way I look at women after the very first stand-up set of his that I saw several years ago. The other night on Conan, Kosta let everybody in on the fact that “hot chicks” lead very different lives and experiences than the rest of us, whether …
Seth MacFarlane is up for two Grammy Awards, but only one of them is for something funny. Steve Martin’s banjo found honors. And the South Park fellas are getting closer to EGOT status. What else is new? How about these comedians among the nominees for the 54th Grammy Awards, to …
Patrice O’Neal embodied and espoused brutal honesty. And in his first, and regrettably only full special released during his lifetime, Oneal addressed the “Elephant in the Room” as one of the best comedy CD/DVDs of 2011. Oneal had been tagged with too many unfair labels by critics and detractors over recent …
