The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What do you do when you have racked up TV credits, performed at the prestigious comedy festivals and contests around North America, and still haven't broken through to the next level of your career as a stand-up comedian? If you're Nate Bargatze, Jarrod Harris, Sean Patton and Rory Scovel, you …
I would not have guessed that nachos take up more time in the mind of Ellen DeGeneres than dancing, or even Oprah, but I guess my telepathic powers do not apply to Ellen. There she was last night on Late Show with David Letterman, delivering a special edition of the …
Some news for fans of The Zog, aka Seth Herzog, aka the man who cannot stop dancing on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon and has hosted New York City's most popular indie weekly comedy night that also features his mother… Herzog headlines tonight at Comix in NYC with special guests, …
For your consideration… Related: Goldenfiddle's Spencer Sloan knows you don't need 1,000 words to sum up an awesome moment on last season's SNL, with Jenny Slate and Alec Baldwin. Furthermore: This just means we get to look forward to more Marcel the Shell.
The 14th season of ABC's daytime lady-chatter The View kicked off Tuesday morning, and despite the presence of comedians Whoopi Goldberg and Joy Behar on the hosting panel, what made the new season premiere more important was that Barbara Walters convinced David Letterman to spend much of the hour as …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they're comedians? No, that's not it. It is a fact, though, that America's biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
The new book, Sex: Our Bodies, Our Junk, comes with high praise. Titter titter. No, seriously. The covers boast compliments in the forms of quotes from Conan O'Brien, Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert. Andy Richter and his wife, Sarah Thyre, contribute the foreward. The illustrated naked man on the front …
Wil Sylvince showed me and some famous comedians this short film he did this summer with Paradise Square Films. He didn't tell us what it was about before we watched it, so I'm not going to tell you any more. It's pretty great, though. Roll it! Wouldn't you enjoy seeing …
Up late at night on Oct. 9, 2010, and need a fix? Comedy Central will be your TV sponsor at 1 a.m., setting a time and date for the premiere of "Comics Anonymous." Here's the network description: "The support groups may be anonymous, but their problems certainly aren‚Äôt. Tune in …
Wondering how Tommy Johnagin has coped with finishing runner-up in the 2010 edition of Last Comic Standing? Wonder no more. Johnagin made his third appearance on Late Show with David Letterman on Thursday night heading into the Labor Day weekend. You may have heard bits and pieces of this before. …