The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Look. I'm excited, you're excited, we're all pretty much excited to see Zach Galifianakis host Saturday Night Live this coming Saturday. His appearance last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon did nothing to diminish this mutual glee. In fact, it just proved that 30 Rock (the building) is home …
Did you miss this week's New Yorker panel with Saturday Night Live boss Lorne Michaels and head writer Seth Meyers? Well, you can sit back and listen to pretty much the whole thing, as the New Yorker uploaded audio from the event. Among the interesting tidbits, Michaels discusses how much …
Andrew Koenig, who made his name as a teen actor on TV's Growing Pains but was also the video producer of popular comedy podcast Never Not Funny (via Monkey Go Lucky) and the son of Star Trek's Walter Koenig, went missing last month and was found dead of a suicide last …
I'm not sure how or why, but Toyota is throwing a contest that allows fans to "Sponsafy Your Ride" for an upcoming NASCAR all-star race, and comedian Jon Glaser, star of Adult Swim's Delocated, decided to design his own ski-masked ride as part of a promotion for the upcoming second …
You can say whatever you want about the humor of Tim and Eric — I know I have, and continue to have a very mixed opinion about what they're doing with their show on Cartoon Network's Adult Swim — but nobody can deny the amusement that is and was their …
Montreal's annual comedy shebang — its Juste Pour Rire or for you non-Francophones, Just For Laughs — takes over the French-Canadian city each July. This year, for the third straight year (and second under JFL proper), the festival plans an ancillary conference for the show business industry. JFL always has …
If you were to tell me that Saturday Night Live would gather up all of its grand presidential impersonators for a one-time reunion, then I'd remind you that Phil Hartman is dead, and stop playing me. But you kept at it, and told me, hey, what if we got Jim …
I know from the Internet that there is, in fact, a Chick-fil-A in New York City as part of a New York University dining hall, but I'm more interested in a comedian who got the fast-food chain's recognition. And no, I'm not talking about Aziz Ansari. Tim Hawkins, a musical …
Sarah Palin, the woman who almost could have been vice president, and certainly was the governor of Alaska before she quit to be famous full-time, decided she wanted to be a stand-up comedian last night on the TV. And since she was a guest on Jay Leno's second show back …
Sometimes it seems like every comedian has a podcast and a streaming online talk show, because I think every comedian has launched one in the past year. Where's yours? Kevin Nealon has started doing something slightly different on Tuesday nights at the Laugh Factory in Hollywood. It appears to be …