The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Thank the UCB Midnight Show in Los Angeles for conjuring up this Travel Channel parody, in which 1980s Britpop sensation Tears For Fears walks the Trail of Tears. Shout, shout, let it all out! Upcoming shows: June 6th at UCB LA at Midnight with host Fred Willard
You'd seem to think so, as this story in Sunday's New York Times literally goes to the left-field seats at new Yankee Stadium to interview a beer vendor there, 51-year-old Steve Lazarus, who has been telling jokes on the job (and also in suburban comedy rooms in New York, New …
TBS has announced the lineups for two stand-up comedy specials it'll tape and broadcast from the inaugural Just For Laughs Chicago festival in June. So who's added to the bills? Martin Short will host Let Freedom Hum (tapes June 18 at The Vic, and airs June 26), with performances by …
Believe it or not, the "Soup" franchise of TV snark soon will surpass both Law & Order and CSI in the number of separate-but-equal editions of a single-concept television program, as the trades announced overnight that the G4 network will launch Web Soup on June 7, with host Chris Hardwick (Hard …
Or should I say, SNL #34.22 with Justin Timberlake, Jimmy Fallon, Susan Sarandon, Patricia Clarkson, Zachary Quinto, Chris Pine, Leonard Nimoy and Ciara? After some time away, Saturday Night Live returned with a flurry of celebrity cameos, as if to remind us that to be culturally relevant, you need to …
Wanda Sykes had the chance in 2009 to be the first to roast President Barack Obama and the press at the White House Correspondents Dinner. She got in a good jibe about VP Joe Biden, as well as the Obamas meeting Queen Elizabeth II. Sykes had tougher words for Obama's …
No, really. How many pop-culture names and brands did Aziz Ansari name-drop during his eight-minute chat on Jimmy Kimmel Live? Make your guess, then watch and see how close you came:
Would you like to see Larry David playing a Woody Allen type of character having a Woody Allen type of relationship with a 21-year-old woman in a Woody Allen type of film? Then watch this trailer for Whatever Works, and tell me what you think of it? Thanks.
Some of you comedy nerds already knew about this, because comedy nerds are more likely to spend time debating who's funnier or sending fan mail to a comedian via message boards such as A Special Thing (who am I kidding here? obviously this is going to sound loony the minute …
In case you missed it last night, Norm MacDonald had quite the rambling chat session with David Letterman. Really. It was all over the map. But Letterman finally got what he wanted in the end, giggling throughout MacDonald's story about Bob Uecker seeing John Fogarty. Apparently, Uecker must not be …