The Definitive Guide to Comedy
How can a good rumor become solid conventional wisdom in a hot minute? When the math looks right, for one thing. The Academy Awards suffered this year from the decision to cast an odd couple as hosts in Anne Hathway (overly excited to be there) and James Franco (appeared to …
Jon Rineman not only works on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as a writer, but he’s also received the opportunity to perform his stand-up comedy on the show, which he did last night. Turns out he has sex on the brain. Whether he’s talking about mannequins or condoms, or having …
For all of the weird headlines that Katt Williams has made onstage and off in the past few years, he always seemed level-headed whenever I spoke with him. Frazzled maybe. But that can happen when you’re dealing with people who don’t understand what you’re about, and whom also happen to …
You kids with the satellite TV systems (or the Verizon FiOS plan) know all about Fuel TV and its late-night show, The Daily Habit. But do you know this: After experimenting with multiple comedians at a time reading their best and favorite Tweets backed by a live band in a …
In his third appearance on Late Show with David Letterman, check out how Joe Wong keeps a slow and deliberate pacing to his delivery. It not only allows the audience to follow along with his Chinese accent, but also gives them chances to laugh at pauses that normally wouldn’t be …
In the second season finale of Showtime’s The Green Room with Paul Provenza, Provenza asked Jimmy Carr to explain his theory on why humans laugh, and how it applies to evolution and makes us more advanced than other creatures big and small. Here is how that transpired. Paul Provenza: “Jimmy …
On Sept. 9, 2011, HBO will broadcast a comedy special pairing Mel Brooks with Dick Cavett in conversation, but in this clip, we see that Carl Reiner is there, too, and they’ll be talking about the classic bit Reiner and Brooks used to do about a 2000-year-old man. Roll it. …
The New York Television Festival has unveiled its schedule for Sept. 20-24, 2011, and, aside from the traditional sneak peek premieres of several new fall TV series, the NYTVF also will include a late-night writers panel hosted by SNL’s Jason Sudeikis, as well as the world premiere of Marc Maron’s …
Ever since Katt Williams announced he was “retiring” from stand-up comedy, he still has managed to pop up in the headlines from time to time, but never for good news on his part. Arrests. Altercations. Strange incidents. Actually, Williams had been finding himself on the wrong side of the headline …
There’s a bit Hannibal Buress has about living in Williamsburg and talking to hipsters about handlebar mustaches, and that very much came to my mind as I watched this Heineken Light advertisement. Sadly, Hannibal isn’t in this TV spot. But they do answer the pivotal question about when and where …
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