The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Sad news to report, as Jimmy Kimmel’s real-life “Uncle Frank” Potenza, a former NYPD officer and security guard who worked on camera on Kimmel’s ABC talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live, died today. He was 77. Information about a memorial service is forthcoming. Kimmel’s TV show already had just begun a …
The folks supporting the new movie, A Good Old Fashioned Orgy (opening Sept. 2, 2011, in a cinema near you!), are conducting a special promotional Web tour with their favorite sites, and it’s now The Comic’s Comic’s turn. Written by Alex Gregory and Peter Hucyk (writers for David Letterman, Larry Sanders …
In this month’s Details magazine, comedian/actor Nick Kroll outlined 20 basic tips to improve your social media etiquette. My favorites: 1. Have a real picture of yourself as a profile pic. I need to know what you look like. It’s only fair. If your Facebook photo includes a picture of …
Seems like only a decade ago that viewers first saw a flamboyant chubby kid stealing scenes from Jay Leno’s Tonight Show as “Ross the Intern.” Wait. That was a decade ago? Well, now Ross Mathews is all grown up, slimmed down, but still flamboyant in a suit as a frequent …
In his first show back on the air since a Muslim extremist sympathetic to Al-Qaeda called for jihad and threatened to cut off his tongue, David Letterman used his sharp tongue to make jokes both at his expense as well as the terrorists, unleashing a monologue and a Top 10 …
“Hey, we’re back!” That’s what Jonathan Katz has been saying for the past few years and past few dozen podcasts for WKATZ. But Katz’s final “audio-only podcast” for WKATZ appeared online back in January. Fast-forward to August, and now we can not only hear Katz, but see the comedian you …
Jimmy Fallon announced today that he would be hosting Saturday Night Live on Dec. 17, 2011, his first time back as a host since he left the cast (although he has returned a few times in cameo roles, notably with Justin Timberlake for the Barry Gibb Talk Show sketch). What …
The Thurber House has announced its finalists for the annual Thurber Prize for American Humor, and the trio represents a wide spectrum of comedic writing, although two of them share a propensity for telling stories on public radio’s This American Life, while one has a longtime history as a sportswriter …
It’s all in the handshake. That’s what they say. But in this fake movie trailer for the documentary, Nick and Andy, it’s all not in the handshake, as it were. Because Nick Thune appeared on Conan earlier this year, and after his performance, got invited up to do panel, whereupon …
Friends of The Comic’s Comic Zach Galifianakis, Jonathan Ames and the gang have filmed season three of Ames’ HBO comedy, Bored to Death, and here’s a fresh new behind-the-scenes trailer, complete with a funny guest turn by Sarah Silverman. Other guests new and returning include Dick Cavett, John Hodgman, Chris …
