The Definitive Guide to Comedy
My friends at Asylum caught up with comedian Jon Glaser on the set of his Adult Swim series, Delocated (airing Sunday nights, two episodes into the second season, which I hope and trust you're all watching because it's now twice as fun at a half-hour length!). And Glaser had these …
Saturday Night Live continues to add new people to the roster in advance of its upcoming 36th season, which begins Sept. 25, 2010. We learned a few days ago that Chicago comedian Tom Flanigan got hired as a writer, and now I can also tell you that Los Angeles comedian Heather …
The Edinburgh Festival Fringe just announced its winners of the top prizes for 2010, aka the Edinburgh Comedy Awards, and Russell Kane took home the top prize for best show for "Smokescreens and Castles." Roisin Conaty won best newcomer honors for her show, "Hero, Fireman, Warrior, Liar." And Bo Burnham …
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 …
It's the end of August, which has become the silly season for Saturday Night Live, in which comedy fans obsess over every single detail of the casting of both on-air talent and writing staffers — helped, in part, by the show's insistence on keeping current employees mostly in the dark …
As I previously reported, Louis CK's stand-up concert film, Hilarious, which made its debut at the Sundance Film Festival this January, will get a one-night-only screening in several cities on Sept. 8, 2010, followed 10 days later with a TV debut on Sept. 18 on EPIX. Here are the cities …
Nick Stevens and I have more in common than just our obsession with Boston sports teams. We also find the infomercials for the Cami Secret to be one of the more ridiculous things out there. I cannot get past wondering why women would buy and wear the tops that reveal …
Jimmy Fallon, in Los Angeles this week preparing to host the Emmys this coming Sunday, showed up last night on the set of America's Got Talent to show off some of his talent impersonating various other comedians. As in: Jerry Seinfeld, Bill Cosby, Chris Rock, Robin Williams, Norm MacDonald, Gilbert …
The makers of MAD magazine have teamed up with a Robot Chicken and producers from Warner Bros. Animation to bring the mag's "What me, worry?" blend of spoofery and pop culture parody to television as a new animated series, MAD, debuting Sept. 6, 2010, on the Cartoon Network. It's not …
Would you like to see what happens when the Bored to Death characters played by Ted Danson, Jason Schwartzman and Zach Galifianakis end up in a police lineup? Well, here you go, then! Season two of the series debuts on HBO on Sunday, Sept. 26, 2010. Time to watch me …