The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Today seems like random day in my comedy mailbag. To wit: TV Land, which started as a way to celebrate old sitcoms, is now doing new sitcoms, and its first one will co-star Betty White, who's all up in the comedy news in 2010. Finally. Hot in Cleveland debuts in …
That was nice about the college kids and all, but what about grown-up professional stand-up comedians who want to perform at the Aspen Rooftop Comedy Festival and win national recognition from a cable television network? Meet Pete Lee, winner of CMT's Next Big Comic. Congrats, Pete!
Rooftop Comedy's third annual National College Comedy Competition won't end in Aspen with Rooftop Comedy's fest, because the company has partnered with TBS to send the four top college stand-ups to Chicago for one more final face-off at Just For Laughs Chicago. Or as TBS calls it, "TBS Presents a …
The Bridgetown Comedy Festival announced its lineup for its third annual celebration of comedy in Portland, Ore., and high among the highlights has to be the panel of longtime Conan O'Brien writers Kevin Dorff, Brian Stack, Brian McCann and Matt O'Brien, who'll sit down with Conan's Tonight Show warm-up stand-up Jimmy …
Good news for comedy fans came late Sunday night with a series order and some additional casting news. First off, let me say how happy I am that USA ordered 11 episodes, along with the 90-minute pilot for new drama Facing Kate, which stars Sarah Shahi and co-stars comedian/actor Baron …
With all of the talk last week about Betty White anchoring the mother of all Mother's Day editions of Saturday Night Live in May with several former female SNL cast members helping out, it's maybe a good a time as any to talk about the role women play on SNL. …
When does this episode of Jaywalking air, again? A fan of Conan O'Brien meets Jay Leno, gets photo taken, has Coco FTW on his palm, posts to Facebook, gets picked up by TMZ. That pretty much sums it up.
What happens when you get 140 performers — from the biggest names in comedy to the biggest up-and-coming funny people, mixed in with Hollywood stars and starlets, musicians, writers, children’s show makers, porn stars, and just plain clever people — put them in a 99-seat sold-out north Hollywood theater, and …
It was such a joy to witness firsthand when stand-up comedian Shane Mauss earned his first big break three years ago this month. You can see some of the evidence here when I celebrated with Mauss and friends after his first Conan taping in March 2007, and the subsequent piece …
Some comedians try to pretend they're not being taped for television and never acknowledge that it's anything special, just the same jokes you'd hear. Other comedians let you in on the game, and sometimes even play directly to the cameras, or say out loud when the commercial breaks should be …