The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If Saturday Night Live welcomes back one of America's iconic award-winning actors as a returning host, and adds a couple of surprise cameos from big-name comedians, then we can just pretend that on paper, this would have been a great episode and forget that they actually aired the thing. Right? …
I don't know if you watched Dancing With The Stars this season, but comedian Margaret Cho was in the competition, as was 20-year-old single mother Bristol Palin, who you may know better as a daughter of would-be political leader Sarah Palin. In a post called "Pistol Whipped" on her blog …
Louis CK told his fans on Friday night via Twitter to catch his most recent appearance on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, saying "2nd segment was the funnest time I evr had on a talk show." Sic sic! So what did you miss if you didn't tune in? In …
Knowing that Sean Combs, aka "Diddy," was the musical guest on Saturday Night Live, and knowing that many friends and colleagues of comedian Chris Gethard work on SNL, then it's not surprising that forces of karma worked for good and got the two of them to meet face-to-face. If you …
In the wake of last week's misunderstanding at the 92Y here in New York City, Steve Martin has offered several "refund jokes" to his followers on Twitter, and in Sunday's edition of the New York Times, Martin wrote an op-ed that not only offered his perspective on what happened, but …
When people say that something isn't quite right about this season of Saturday Night Live, whether or not they know it, they're saying that they miss Will Forte. While it's true that Forte was far from the only member of the cast and writing staff to leave SNL over the …
This is today's video of the day, although, really if you were to describe 2010 to people of another era, this cover of the Beatles classic "Let it Be" might just do the trick. It promotes the Norwegian entertainment program, Golden Times (Gylne Tider). We open on the beach with …
Jeff Zucker sat back down at the table with Charlie Rose last night for his "exit interview" as CEO of NBC Universal. Rose grilled him for much of the 40 minutes (link to video here), asking him again and again about how he failed with NBC Entertainment, and even though …
Congrats to my friends of The Comic's Comic in Canadian sketch group Picnicface for receiving a 13-episode order this week from The Comedy Network. Here is the statement on the group's site: We expect to begin filming this spring in Halifax. A huge thanks to all our fans for their …
President Barack Obama may be delivering a speech at this very moment to the troops in Afghanistan, but last night, one of his speechwriters was delivering jokes and winning Washington, D.C.'s annual "Funniest Celebrity" contest at the D.C. Improv. Jon Lovett took the prize by impersonating Arianna Huffington for an …