The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Developing… The Katt Williams home page asks in big bold all-caps: “WILL KATT EVER DO STAND-UP AGAIN?” The truth, however, is that he was supposed to be performing all this weekend at the Ontario Improv in southern California. Supposed to be performing. What really happened? Williams performed Friday night, and …
On Saturday Night Live, oftentimes something will strike the cast and writers as super-funny around the office (particularly late at night Tuesday and into Wednesday morning of an SNL week), but not quite translate onscreen before the live audience. Such was the case, apparently, with Cup Boy and Plate Boy, …
This morning at the TCA Summer Tour, FX announced to TV critics that the cable network not only already ordered renewals for Louis CK’s Louie (for season three) and Wilfred (for season two), but also had made a deal with the cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia for seasons …
Earlier this week, Byron Allen’s Entertainment Studios, Inc., announced that its late-night talker Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen had earned a two-season renewal for fall 2011 and fall 2012 (seasons six and seven) in the largest CBS markets of New York City (WCBS), Los Angeles (KCBS) and Chicago (WBBM). The …
After four years, Louis CK and Dane Cook finally got to sit down and hash out the debate among comedy fans — and themselves — about whether or not Cook had lifted three of CK’s jokes. Cook had told me in a 2007 interview that he most certainly hadn’t (even …
TV shows and their online video policies are weird. Take Jimmy Kimmel Live, for instance. The ABC late-night chat show has its own YouTube channel and puts most of every episode online the next morning, but does so by splitting every segment up into multiple bits. I learned from another …
Ron Funches wins this year’s prize for first Montreal New Face to make the leap to late-night TV post-JFL*, as he performed his set last night on Conan. Hear about why Funches left Chicago for Portland, Ore., and the differences he has experienced in his new home. Roll the clip! …
Fans of Gabe & Jenny, aka Gabe Liedman and Jenny Slate, can rejoice knowing they finally have two new episodes of “BESTIE X BESTIE” to learn more about their Brooklyn alt-comedy darlings. In this first video, have your own balloon handy and find out about an important moment in Jenny’s …
The Fine Brothers — Benny & Rafi — have taken a break from making kids react to viral videos to revisit their childhood and that seminal Saturday morning series of the 1990s, Saved by the Bell. They did done gone and turned it into a old-timey video-game experience, “16-Bit Saved by …
What if the funniest guy in the office also was a comedy nerd who treated the workplace as a comedy venue itself? No, I’m not describing any character in NBC’s The Office. I’m talking about any office, your office, and UCB sketch group Onassis introduces you to Barry Fisler. Roll …
