The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Music fans excited to see the reunion of power-pop band That Dog last weekend in Los Angeles received a bonus treat at the Troubadour, as Maya Rudolph revealed she fronts a Prince cover band called Princess! Now we know that if Fred Armisen had ever faltered in his Saturday Night …
Over at Collectors Weekly, they’ve dug deep into the archives of fake vomit. Or rather, they talked to Stan and Mardi Timm, who collect novelty and gag items, and chronicle them online at Timm Stuff. The Timms told Collectors Weekly all about their knowledge of fake barf and vomit novelties, …
One way comedians can raise their profiles via social media is by taking on the rich and famous. Joe Mande has made it a habit to poke fun on Twitter at celebrities, politicians, athletes and people who are famous for being famous, exposing their hypocrisies. Today Mande took his mockery …
Despite winning a Peabody Award for its outstanding quality, the dramedy that was Men of a Certain Age couldn’t earn a third season on TNT — and after putting out feelers to other networks and receiving more than 10,000 fans to a Save Men of a Certain Age Facebook petition …
The end of August brings with it the end of the annual Edinburgh Festival Fringe, and the festival’s Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards were handed out Saturday afternoon. This year’s big winners: 2011 Best Comedy Show Award: Adam Riches, “Bring Me the Head of Adam Riches“ 2011 Best Newcomer Award: Humphrey …
NBC decided over the summer to change up the cast of 2011-2012 midseason replacement Are You There Vodka, It’s Me Chelsea, and the newest beneficiary of those cast changes is stand-up comedian Ali Wong, just hired to play “Chelsea Handler’s” (Laura Prepon) best friend on the sitcom. Wong’s character, Bianca, …
Bill Burr is and has been one of my favorite stand-up comedians over the past decade. Never afraid to tell you what’s on his mind and take the opposite position from convention wisdom and find a way to make you laugh and agree with it. On last night’s Late Show …
According to the TV schedule, Marina Franklin was supposed to appear on Friday’s episode of Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. But at the last moment on Wednesday night, another guest had to drop out due to illness, and Franklin stepped in to perform her stand-up (which was taped earlier, …
Richard Jeni has a new stand-up comedy DVD for sale this month, The Beach Crowd, which might surprise you, considering that Jeni died almost four-and-a-half years ago. The DVD includes 75 minutes of footage captured from two weekends of performances at The Comedy & Magic Club in Hermosa Beach, Calif. …
Among the many weird things that happened this July at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival, one of the weirder but possibly predictable things was that Tony Clifton caused trouble. It’s where and when he did it that’s newsworthy, as Paul Provenza had invited the longtime comedy character (played at times …
