The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
Today during the TCA summer tour for America’s TV Critics Association, Showtime announced it had ordered 10 half-hour episodes of a comedy interview series, Laughing Stock, hosted by David Steinberg and executive produced by Steve Carell. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Steinberg, who turns 69 on Aug. 9, hosted …
Lucille Ball would have turned 100 on Saturday, Aug. 6. To celebrate her legacy, LIFE magazine at life.com has posted a gallery of never-before-published photographs of the comedienne. In this 1958 photo by Leonard McCombe for TIME & LIFE Pictures, we see Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball posing in front …
Russell Howard is a young bloke from the UK who has become a star on the telly and broken records for ticket sales by young blokes who tell jokes. But he has yet to crack the States. Last night, he made his TV debut here by appearing on Conan, and …
If you’re old enough to remember a time before cable television, when your TV had about four stations on it, Jerry Lewis and “Jerry’s Kids” took over your Labor Day weekend for decades. But no more. The Muscular Dystrophy Association announced yesterday that it had severed ties with Jerry Lewis. …
