The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you want to know what bowled over the Edinburgh Fringe Festival this August, then you can see and/or listen for yourself as Bo Burnham's Words, Words, Words is out now in separate CD and DVD formats. I was at Burnham's CD recording in June at Carolines on Broadway. Burnham …
It's no secret that I'm a fan of comedian Rob Delaney on Twitter. I've said so on Twitter. But get to know @RobDelaney past the 140-character limit, and you'll find that he's not exactly the profane absurdist he is there, but in fact, so much more. He's profoundly real. Here's …
Well, I‚Äôll tell you a story. Del came out to California, and all of us who knew him sent him everywhere that had a show, resulting in him getting dopey parts on things like My Mother the Car. My show then was Get Smart, and I said, ‚ÄúDel, just go meet the …
Dana Carvey as Johnny Carson on SNL, in 1990 A lot of the way that show was conceived was by thinking about what talk shows weren‚Äôt doing. Dana Carvey was asked to do that gig months before it landed in anyone else‚Äôs hands, right after Carson announced that he was …
On my recent sojourn to Hollywood, comedian Jon Daly told me he had produced something close to awesome with Fabio that would be appearing on Funny or Die. Today is the day we get that much closer to awesome. While the people who don't know any better just think Fabio …
Look. I get it. We all get it. Running Wilde is not Arrested Development. Even though both shows feature the same creator, two of its stars, a voiceover narration and a love for ridiculousness, they're not the same. They're not going to be the same. And we should all be …
If you'd like even more out of your TBS promos of Conan O'Brien's upcoming talk show, Conan, and you'd also like to see something from behind the scenes, then you are doubly in luck! Because this clip shows you some fun improvised moments in the "blimp" between Conan and his …
I know I'm supposed to be excited by the exclusive news that CBS has signed comedian Demetri Martin to a script deal, but who is going to be the person to tell Demetri that, in recent years, CBS also has supposedly been ready to grant TV shows to Louis CK, …
If the key to comedy is timing, then what does it say about Canada that the CBC aired the Steve Martin Gala last night, just as the Canadian Comedy Awards were handing out their 11th annual trophies? At any rate, congratulations are in order for the following winners of CCAs …
When I saw a video early this morning depicting Bobby Bottleservice in Africa, I thought, that couldn't be right. Perhaps my weekend cold/flu/bug had prompted this hallucination. But no. Nick Kroll wasn't the only comedian to make the trip to Senegal. Ed Helms, Natasha Leggero, Riki Lindhome and others did …