The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Stepfathers, an improv comedy supergroup that performs at New York City’s Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, won at the inaugural Friars Club Improv & Sketch Competition last summer. Winning meant they received a cash prize to make a short film for the 2010 Friars Club Comedy Film Festival. Behold: “Walk …
Actor Peter Falk died last night at the age of 83. Younger people may only know of Falk as the grandfather storyteller from The Princess Bride, but everyone else pretty much knew him as Lt. Columbo, the clever rumpled police detective he began playing on TV in the 1970s. Comedian …
This clip from Late Night with Jimmy Fallon is cut weirdly for time, so if you didn’t watch the entire episode last night, you’re not entirely sure why Jon Benjamin’s shirt is wet, nor do you ever really get to learn that much about his Comedy Central series, Jon Benjamin …
On last night’s episode of Conan, comedian/actor Nick Kroll showed off a bit of his Latino radio DJ, El Chupacabra, explained a clip of him as Bobby Bottleservice, and told Conan O’Brien about the first time he ever performed stand-up in college, and how that didn’t go quite as planned. …
After putting on the first “Big Time Comedy Show” in NYC in February for the family of the late Greg Giraldo, comedians have organized a second all-star comedy affair to take place on June 29 at the Wiltern in Hollywood. As you can see, host Tom Papa has assembled some …
George Lopez said last night on his show that Michelle Buteau was a part of the Lopez Tonight family, which I think means that she works there, and not that he had adopted her as a daughter, although it really could mean both. Who said it? Yeah, I said it! …
Louis CK could care less about which talk show he’s on, just so long as people are watching. Which is why he returned to Leno last night, and had no problems revealing just how much he loved taking Percocet for a back injury — so much so that he indulged …
From Conan O’Brien’s lips to your ears and eyes: Last night, he said that Reggie Watts would be taping tonight’s free show at NYC’s Central Park SummerStage (with opener Natasha Leggero). Hmmm. Interesting. We like this! But first. Watts returned to Conan to do what he does best, which is …
How are we still talking about the latest dumb thing to come out of Tracy Morgan’s mouth? Because he wasn’t kidding about getting you pregnant behind the dumpster, but stabbing a fictional son for being gay. And even more so because one gay fan’s Facebook post reacting to Morgan got …
You may have seen Jim Tavare on the sitcom Wings many moons ago, on NBC’s Last Comic Standing more recently than that, or even in a comedy club near you. He’s difficult to forget. Bald guy. In black tie. Playing the cello. So what happens when another British guy does …