The Definitive Guide to Comedy
And so it begins again. Two years since we last left NBC's Last Comic Standing with an abrupt five-person finale, the show has returned to us, reborn with a new host (Craig Robinson), new judges (Andy Kindler, Natasha Leggero and Greg Giraldo) and a new promise to focus firmly and …
To celebrate this weekend's running of the Belmont Stakes, the third and final leg of the Triple Crown, the folks at 12 Angry Mascots produced this satire on horse racing, imagining what would happen if not only horses, but also the jockeys themselves, were put out to stud. And they …
Some products are so silly, that when you see the ads for them on TV, you begin to wonder how even the people in the ads can take them seriously. I suppose that's what the people who make the Shoe Dini felt, too, and decided to hire Gilbert Gottfried to …
If you look at your TV listings for tonight, then you'll see that Hal Sparks has a new stand-up special debuting at 10 p.m. (Eastern/Pacific) on Showtime called "Charmageddon." But the description of it, at least on Time Warner Cable, is somewhat unrevealing: "The comic discusses differences between men and …
Just For Laughs Chicago announced late yesterday that Jerry Seinfeld, Russell Peters, Sommore and JB Smoove had joined the lineup for Cedric The Entertainer's upcoming TBS special, Cedric The Entertainer's Urban Circus, which tapes June 18 at the Chicago Theatre and airs June 23 on TBS. Wait. Seinfeld? Jerry Seinfeld?! That …
If you went to the second night of Conan O'Brien's two-night stint at Radio City Music Hall, you may have been wondering if you'd get a repeat of Conan's dance-off (not pants-off) with Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. Well, they didn't get that, but they did get a number of …
Stand-up comedian and satirist Jimmy Tingle hit primetime back in 1999 when he earned the "Andy Rooney" commentary slot on CBS' former 60 Minutes II. After he closed his own live theater in Somerville, Mass., in 2007, Tingle decided to go back to school, and this May, graduated with a …
People like to argue with me when I say comedy is booming in a way not seen since the much-talked-about comedy boom of the 1980s, and while la plus ca has changed, the plus c'est la meme has chosen, am I right, Franglasians? I mean, when you open your computer …
In case you weren't at Radio City Music Hall last night, or are planning on going tonight, here is something that Conan O'Brien clearly didn't do at any previous stop on his Team Coco theater tour of North America: A fake feud and dance-off with Stephen Colbert and Jon Stewart. …
Larry David's seminal post-Seinfeldian semi-improvisational TV comedy, Curb Your Enthusiasm, begins a new life tonight on the TV Guide Channel (10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, 9 p.m. Central/Mountain). Each episode will be followed a post-show celebrity panel to fill out the hour, hosted by Curb's Susie Essman, called Curb: The Discussion. Tonight's …