The Definitive Guide to Comedy
OK, comedy fans. We're back with the first (of how many? of how many???) episodes from the New York City auditions, and after some more glimpses of Tommy Johnagin and a naked Andy Ofiesh, here's Craig Robinson strolling down the sidewalk of West 23rd Street on his keytar with judges …
What happens if you make a career for yourself as one of Italy's top satirists, only for people to eventually find out that you have used jokes and routines from more than 100 American stand-up comedians to make all of your points, claiming them to be yours? Well, meet Daniele …
Henriette Mantel is a former stand-up comedian (she played Alice in the Brady Bunch movies) who helps produce the married-couple segments that Tom Papa and celebrity panels judge upon on NBC's The Marriage Ref. Kevin Meaney is the stand-up comedian who has lived across the street from Mantel in NYC …
There's a new documentary film about British comedians The Mighty Boosh and their devoted fans — fans so devoted that the two NYC screenings of Journey of the Childmen: The Mighty Boosh on Tour sold out even before the 92YTribeca announced that Mighty Boosh creators Noel Fielding and Julian Barratt …
In this clip from Jordan Brady's documentary on stand-up comedy, I Am Comic, we see Craig Anton (original member of MADtv, as well as the dad on Phil of the Future and voice in Tom Goes to the Mayor) break down the art of writing a set, from set-up to …
If you think you've been doing comedy for a long time, then what does that make Robert Klein, who filmed HBO's first comedy special 35 years ago and returns to the Home Box Office this Saturday with his ninth, dubbed "Unfair and Unbalanced." Care to guess his politics? Well, you …
According to most cable TV guides, Paul F. Tompkins will be talking about the pros and cons of neighbors tonight when his new special, "You Should Have Told Me," debuts on Comedy Central. In reality, his new hourlong set, recorded last year at the Laughing Skull in Atlanta, is much …
If you watched the debut last night of The Green Room with Paul Provenza on Showtime, then perhaps you saw a few comedians in the audience. And perhaps you wondered, hey, is that guy sitting behind Eddie Izzard in fact Ken Ober, who died in November? Well, yes. Yes it …
Tom Davis may be a scholar and a gentleman, or he may be neither of those things, but he was one of the original writers for Saturday Night Live, and he did live a full life, which he shared parts of which with all of us in his memoirs, "39 …
So these things happened yesterday. While oil continues to gush into the Gulf of Mexico (yeah, that sounds like a good idea), the Upright Citizens Brigade Theater's East Coast representatives decided to show us the comedy by representing how BP would have responded to a coffee spill. If they had …