The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
If you're one of the 10 finalists in season seven of NBC's Last Comic Standing, and you know who you are (as do I and other comedy sleuths, though the final 10 won't be revealed for a couple of weeks yet), and if you feel good about your chances on …
This just in the mailbag: Comedy Central has announced that David Hasselhoff will be the network's 2010 roast of honor, as comedians will trot out their best Baywatch, drunken cheeseburger, Knight Rider and German singing jokes this summer. The special will air on Sunday, Aug. 15, 2010. Manufactured quotes? Sure …
Summer music Wednesday continues here in this corner of the Internet, and also wherever you live, unless you live in the Southern Hemisphere, because then it's much much closer to winter where you are. Now that I've explained seasonal differences, how about letting Jon Lajoie explain how the music industry …
Here's a little message that you may already have known, but never quite as clearly or as melodious as when Tom McCaffrey, Carolyn Castiglia and Mara Herron drop rhymes over the strains of the Oasis song, "Wonderwall." They're letting hip-hoppers know they're onto their game. Roll it.
Doogie Horner may not be featured on NBC's Last Comic Standing this summer, but overnight, he became a TV sensation on the same network — at least if Howie Mandel and the producers of America's Got Talent have anything to say about it. Horner (who made my November 2009 list …
If you like you some high-octane, all-star improvised comedy showcases, and would like to see them all in one concentrated neighborhood of NYC's Manhattan island in the sweatiest part of summer, then the Upright Citizens Brigade is here for you for a 12th year with the latest installment of its …