The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If I were to tell you that Saturday Night Live closed out its 35th season with a perfectly enjoyable episode, would you believe me? Of course you would. I'm very convincing. If I were to tell you that SNL's 35th season finale also produced little that'll show up years later …
After I published my interview this week with Tony Clifton, Andy Kaufman sent me a message asking me to share with you Jim Carrey's audition tape that he submitted to get the part of Kaufman in the 1999 film, Man on the Moon. OK, so it was Andy Kaufman's Twitter …
Rooftop Comedy announced its slate of nominees for its annual awards, to be handed out the week of June 14 at the site's Aspen Comedy Festival. And I got one! No, that's not why I'm writing this. Especially since I doubt I'll win seeing as I don't have a longstanding …
If you already know about the legend of the "late" Andy Kaufman, his comedy partner, Bob Zmuda, and his other comedy foil, Tony Clifton, then I need not explain further. Let me say this. Twenty-five years ago this Sunday, May 16, Tony Clifton made his first appearance after the death …
Not sure how I missed this news yesterday, but My Damn Channel has announced that it's taking the live showcase of famous people reading memoirs of famous people, aka Celebrity Autobiography, and turning it into a weekly web series on Wednesdays starting May 19. Here's the trailer: Related: My interview …
Do you enjoy the Facebook and the YouTube? Do you wish they could be better? Wait. They could be better? Derrick Comedy (Donald Glover, DC Pierson and Dominic Dierkes) has discovered a way to make it happen. Frankly, they had me at Shmorkle-Blinxx. You can see Glover tonight on NBC's …
Audiences are getting to know comedian Greg Giraldo a little better this spring and summer, thanks to his role as a judge on NBC's Last Comic Standing. They learned even more about Giraldo last week when he served as a guest on the network's celebrity panel for The Marriage Ref alongside …
The nominations for the 37th Annual Daytime Emmys came out today, with eight nominations each for The Ellen DeGeneres Show and comedian-laden The Electric Company, plus three nods for the soon-to-be-cancelled Bonnie Hunt Show. Awards will be handed out June 27 in Las Vegas, televised on CBS. You can view the full …
As you may have heard/read, Comedy Central (LOGO or no LOGO) will not renew the Sarah Silverman Program for a fourth season. It hardly comes as surprise to anyone who was a fan of the show, as Silverman herself and her co-stars had gone to Twitter and other forums asking …
Here's one fool-proof way to figure out if your career is hot: If you have more movie deals than most of the nominees when you host the MTV Movie Awards ceremony, then you win! That's you, Aziz Ansari. Ansari already sold three movie pitches to Judd Apatow, but that didn't …