The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Over the summer, Gary Rudoren (co-author of Comedy By The Numbers) told me he had a brilliant idea for another comedy book. Rudoren wanted to publish an oral history of the Upright Citizens Brigade. But he said he was too busy for it. Turns out I was too busy to …
Just in time for new episodes of the 15th anniversary of South Park, creators Matt Stone and Trey Parker received the full-on profile by 60 Minutes. Here’s the segment that aired Sunday night on CBS. If you prefer reading, then you can read the 60 Minutes piece on Matt and …
New season, same ol’ cast. No. Really. And that’s the big news as Saturday Night Live opened its 37th season with the same exact cast from season 36 — and that hasn’t happened since I worked in newspapers. Nobody left. Nobody got fired. And nobody got hired, either. That’s despite …
In case you missed it Friday night, David Letterman welcomed Larry Miller back to the Late Show to perform a stand-up set. Miller milks the initial audience applause breaks for more, then fills us in on what’s wrong with kids these days. Kids! Good try! Roll the clip.
Plenty of interesting moments out of last night’s “Long Days Journey into Late-Night” panel at the 2011 New York Television Festival, but I wanted to single out just one for now. Moderator Jason Sudeikis went through a typical week’s schedule for Saturday Night Live, which just reconvened the full cast …
As the 2011 New York Television Festival hits its own homestretch this weekend, it has announced a new initiative with Comedy Central that seeks original comedy pilots and scripts, with the top submission receiving a $7,500 development deal from the network next year. “The NYTVF is thrilled to partner with …
It’s been more than curious to watch the backlash from the comedy community and “comedy nerds” against Whitney Cummings and her new NBC sitcom, Whitney, which debuted last night to an audience of about 6.7 million viewers. Reaction from TV critics has run the gamut from loved it to really …
Fans of the AMC zombie series, The Walking Dead, will have comedian Chris Hardwick to talk them through its second season this fall — the cable channel announced today that it had ordered a half-hour chat show hosted by him to air following new episodes. Actually, Talking Dead will premiere …
Stand-up comedian/actor/author Judah Friedlander — series regular on 30 Rock, 2004 Independent Spirit Awards Best Supporting Actor nominee for Amercian Splendor and author of “How To Beat Up Anybody” –has left both his management, 3 Arts Entertainment, and agency, The Gersh Agency. Friedlander tells The Comic’s Comic that both 3 …
Dana Carvey came back to Late Night with Jimmy Fallon on Tuesday night, and Carvey and Fallon had fun talking about impersonations and exchanging back and forths and back and forths and you know whats. You know what? Just watch these clips. Here is the first part of Carvey and …
