The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Perhaps comedians of the 21st Century have it all wrong, playing by the old rules: Perform stand-up comedy, receive development deal, pitch sitcom based on life, repeat. Because Donald Glover has flipped the script completely. Before he has ever done a single stand-up set in late-night TV, he has written …
Bill Cosby is enough of a living legend to receive first-guest status from David Letterman and also perform his stand-up before hitting the panel. During his stand-up, watch as it’s interesting how Letterman’s audience is more onboard with the idea of fried turkeys than he is. During his panel, Cosby …
Boston used to have two daily newspapers that each had a weekly comedy column, covering the local scene, interviewing touring comedians and reviewing shows and performers. But that was, well, so five years ago. That’s where I first started blogging about comedy in addition to covering it in print alongside …
You’d think someone would have done this much sooner. Like, maybe the second day of YouTube. But nope. Not until now can you enjoy this “TV commercial” for Dick’s Nuts. Looks like Dee’s Nuts have some competition. Finally. Roll it! The site listed for this video redirects to an unfinished …
Dave Attell has made the late-night TV rounds before, both as a host and as a stand-up comedian. But I cannot recall him ever doing panel with Jay Leno before, and certainly not with his ever-growing hairdo flowing out from underneath his ball cap — and most especially not whilst …
In interviews over the years, members of the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre often have referred to their organization as “the Fugazi of comedy.” It was no accident, then, that Fugazi frontman Ian MacKaye was chosen to deliver the monologues for a planned special reunion of the UCB’s founding four to …
Most man-on-the-street videos make me go, oh, no, not another man-on-the-street video. But this one made me laugh out loud in the first minute. Which is probably why Fuse had no qualms green-lighting this series from Funny or Die that sends Billy Eichner out on the streets for a game …
Who is Jenny Slate? Who better to answer that question than Jenny Slate. In her new video, “Self Esteem,” Slate, her comedy partner Gabe Liedman and her life partner Dean Fleischer-Camp follow her around and comment about her life, or what they think her life must be like. I’m jealous. …
The Kennedy Center honored Will Ferrell this year with the annual Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. The ceremony, which taped last month in Washington, D.C., and aired on PBS on Oct. 31, featured Ed Asner, Jack Black, Matthew Broderick, Adam McKay, Conan O’Brien, John C. Reilly, Paul Rudd, Molly Shannon …
Conan O’Brien and his late-night crew triumphantly returned to New York City this week, and Reggie Watts — who toured with Conan during his TV break way back when it wasn’t so long ago — welcomed him back to the city by performing that by-gone ditty, “The Boys are Back …
