The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Howie Mandel loves him. Piers Morgan hates him. But what does Sharon Osbourne think? You’ll have to watch the whole segment to find out, as J. Chris Newberg performed in the first of four quarterfinals last night as part of the 2011 season of America’s Got Talent. Was that probably …
Feels like forever since Nick Swardson said he was going to star in a movie for Adam Sandler’s production company as a guy whose life changes when he finds out that his parents once were porn stars. Well, now we have an official movie trailer. This is Bucky Larson: Born …
Earlier today, Margaret Cho kicked off a 72-hour “pay what you want” sale of her Grammy-nominated album, Cho Dependent, that includes two unreleased songs of hers, with 20 percent of the proceeds donated to Immediate Justice, a charity devoted to empowering young women and gay people of color. The 72-hour …
Sherwood Schwartz, who created not only two of the biggest TV sitcoms of a generation but also two of the most famous TV theme songs in both Gilligan’s Island and The Brady Bunch, died in his sleep early this morning. Schwartz was 94. Here he is pictured getting kisses from …
The 2011 primetime Emmy nominations will be announced on Thursday morning by Melissa McCarthy (who stars in the CBS sitcom Mike & Molly, though you may know her best from this year’s hit movie, Bridesmaids). It seems like a thankless task, really. Getting up before first thing in the morning …
In what’s new with Will Forte news, it’s all good news. Forte just won a role in the big-screen adaptation of the Broadway musical, Rock of Ages, joining a cast that includes Tom Cruise, Paul Giamatti, Alec Baldwin, Malin Akerman, Bryan Cranston, Mary J. Blige, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Julianne Hough and …
In case you hadn’t heard, a young man broke into the Ed Sullivan Theater over the weekend and trashed the lobby where they film Late Show with David Letterman. Letterman got right to it in his Monday monologue, and yes, even managed to fit a Leno joke into his explanation. …
San Diego's Comic-Con International is a celebration of much more than comics — and you don't have to have a website named The Comic's Comic to understand that — as movies, TV shows, and more things that appeal to the comic-book crowd make their appeals to the sci-fi, fantasy and …
The following listings include comedians and comedic actors scheduled to appear/perform on the late-night TV talk show circuit this week. Check with the TV shows and local listings for last-minute changes. Who knows if David Letterman will have anything to say Monday about the young punk who got drunk and …
Looks like Lisa Lampanelli lately is steering her career in a new direction. Make that directions. Word has surfaced in the past week that Lampanelli has written a one-woman show for herself that she hopes to take to Broadway, and she also has sold a reality show pitch to Logo …