The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
Jim Carrey is 49. Emma Stone is 22. OK. Now that we have those facts, let’s watch this video that Jim Carrey shot of himself declaring his love for Emma Stone. Roll it. Acting! But no matter how creepy of a joke you may think this is, just take a …
You may have seen Godfrey pop up on your TV screen in recent years on NBC’s 30 Rock or FX’s Louie, but until this weekend, you haven’t seen the comedian born Godfrey C. Danchimah Jr. perform in his own hour-long stand-up comedy special. Godfrey’s Black By Accident debuts Saturday, Aug. 27, …
The shortlists are out for the Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards 2011 to wrap up the fringe festival this weekend, and two American acts have made the cut: stand-up comedian Hannibal Buress and duo The Chris and Paul Show are both up for best newcomer. For Best Comedy Show, the nominees …
Of the 24 acts still competing in the 2011 season of America’s Got Talent, there remains only one comedian, and she is Melissa Villasenor. Villasenor and 11 other acts performed Tuesday night in one semifinal, with five of them advancing this week to the final 10. For her brief time …
