The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Cedric the Entertainer hosts new NBC game show, It's Worth What?, which will debut at 8 p.m. (Eastern/Pacific) on July 12, 2011. A description from NBC: "Through set imagery and a never-ending flow of collectibles, antiques and near-priceless treasures, America is brought into a world of doors, behind which are …
Just a quick programming note and reminder. In about an hour, or 2 p.m. Wednesday EDT, I'll be joined by Michael Ian Black, Judah Friedlander, Sara Benincasa and The Comedy Store's Alf LaMont for a free-wheeling discussion about comedy and the Internet for Internet Week NY. (Photo by Ryan Muir/Insider Images) …
When Tim Minchin made his American TV debut early this year on Conan, we learned that he had given some thought to performing his song, "Prejudice," but had second thoughts about it, according to Team Coco. Well, second time is the charm, then? Because Minchin returned to Conan last night, …
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart does not air live on Comedy Central, but they go with the first take anyhow. Which last night added another layer of comedy and drama to the proceedings, when, during a cold open bit in which Stewart held a press conference to apologize for …
Melissa Villasenor, a "new face" in Montreal last summer who also has auditioned for Saturday Night Live, got a chance to showcase several of her celebrity impersonations on another NBC series, America's Got Talent. Here is Villasenor on tonight's episode from the Seattle auditions, in which she calmly breaks out …
The ninth annual Los Angeles Improv Comedy Festival started last night at iO West, and it's attracted plenty of big names in comedy and improvisation. Joel McHale — who was a star of Seattle's TheatreSports before moving to L.A. — performed last night. Drew Carey is on the bill tonight …
The hot hippie music and comedy festival that is Bonnaroo starts on Thursday in the fields of Tennessee, but if you cannot make it there this year, then you still can enjoy at least one night of comedy from wherever you also enjoy an Internet connection. Comedy Central will have …
Plenty of comedians have performed on game shows, and plenty of comedians have married other comedians, but few are the comedy couples who have appeared on TV game shows together. Count Abbi Crutchfield and Luke Thayer as one of those couples. They taped an episode of The Newlywed Game for GSN …
In case you missed it, and of course you missed it, because were you really watching Spike's "Guys Choice Awards 2011" last weekend? No. But if you had, you would have seen Triumph the Insult Comic Dog metaphorically pooping on Congressman Anthony Weiner — who, at the time of the …
They say Canada is friendly, eh? Well, perhaps not as much for five nights later this month, as the Toronto Sketch Comedy Festival presents the fourth annual Sketch Com-Ageddon. Last year‚Äôs champs, Smells Like the 80s, will face 44 other sketch troupes in nine rounds of comedy competition at Comedy …