The Definitive Guide to Comedy
When you have a very big, high-profile gig coming up, you want to practice your routines and hone them so they'll really pop when it's showtime. You'll likely want to show off your best new material, or the best of your old stuff. That's how most stand-up comedians prepare for …
Running around the city, but here's a brief glimpse inside the panel discussion that followed Sunday's Tribeca Film Festival screening of Saturday Night, James Franco's documentary look behind the scenes of a week in the life of SNL. Dave Karger of Entertainment Weekly wondered if cast members had a grand …
Conan O'Brien's first legitimate TV interview since departing NBC and The Tonight Show just aired on 60 Minutes, and if you had watched the teaser clips CBS produced in the past few days, then you knew what to expect. Particularly since O'Brien contractually cannot be completely open about his feelings …
Remember a few years ago when Stephen Colbert took to the podium at the White House Correspondents Dinner and figuratively eviscerated both President George W. Bush and the media right to their faces with hard-hitting satire? Yeah, as if that's going to happen again any time soon. Which is what …
The Just For Laughs people haven't listed this on their schedules yet, but Mike Birbiglia announced (as did David Letterman last night) that he'll be debuting his new one-man show, "My Girlfriend's Boyfriend," at the Montreal festival this July (followed by JFL Toronto). Birbiglia is hard at work reworking old …
I’ve made little to no secret that I’ve been a fan of Myq Kaplan’s comedy for years, and I’m not just saying that because I have ridden in his car on trips between Boston and New York City when we both lived in the former, although I am just saying …
Before you can say May Day, May Day, you have to remember that there's still this last day in April, and it got started with not one but two tributes to OK Go's Rube Goldberg machine that made their music video for "This Too Shall Pass" watchable again and again …
Did you see that guy take his shirt off for Rashida Jones last night as one of the "94 meetings" on Parks and Recreation and wonder, where and when can I see more of that guy? I'm here to help. That guy is comedian Bob Bledsoe (fun fact: I saw …
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 …
To everyone who thinks that late-night TV comedy is a man's man's world, well, you're not 100 percent correct. Just mostly correct. And if you want to know what it's like to be a woman who writes for a late-night talk-show, well, don't ask me (I'm no lady!), but you …