The Definitive Guide to Comedy
When Jay Leno took over The Tonight Show from Johnny Carson in 1992, there was no visible late-night TV war to be waged. At 11:30 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, there was The Tonight Show, or there was Arsenio Hall. Leno’s ascension over David Letterman, however, revealed a civil war within NBC that …
The men from ABC’s Full House reunited in character on Wednesday night to sing Jimmy Fallon to sleep and cheer him up as he prepares to move an hour earlier to The Tonight Show. Bob Saget, John Stamos and Dave Coulier reprised their roles as Danny Tanner, “Uncle Jesse” Katsopolis …
If you think there’s a lot going on in late-night TV talk in 2014, just wait until you see the humorous convergence taking place the second weekend of March in Austin, Texas. SXSW already announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live will broadcast five shows from the interactive, film and music festival …
Which popular sitcom cast from the late 1980s and early 1990s isn’t reuniting for a Super Bowl commercial on this Groundhog Day?! That’s a fairer question, now that we know that the three father figures of ABC’s Full House — Bob Saget, John Stamos and Dave Coulier — have reunited …
The last time Jimmy Kimmel took his late-night TV talk-show on the road, his native Brooklyn was besieged by Superstorm Sandy and his ABC program aired after midnight. What, pray tell, will happen when Jimmy Kimmel Live broadcasts five nights of shows from Austin during SXSW for the week of March …
Scott Bateman knows what it’s like to have multiple identities and realities. Sure, he has a couple thousand followers of his personal Twitter feed @Disalmanacarian, but that’s nothing compared to the almost 70,000 following him @Disalmanac, the feed that has birthed fun facts and witty charts and graphs — which …
What difference does a year make? Alonzo Bodden headlines this weekend at Carolines on Broadway to open 2014, just as he had 2013. Later this year, he’ll be recurring in the final season of Showtime’s Californication. When I met Bodden near Times Square almost a year ago, that gig hadn’t …
ABC passed on the sitcom, Bad Management, this spring. But now it’s posted the full 22-minute pilot episode online. David Spade, who starred in the pilot alongside Sharon Horgan, Alan Thicke and Rachael Harris, told his fans last night via Twitter, “I think it’s actually pretty good.” See for yourself. …
Kate Hendricks stars in a webseries, “Kate the WASP,” that juxtaposes her White Anglo-Saxon Protestant character in settings dominated by other ethnicities and heritages for comedic effect. Exhibit A (Kate the WASP celebrates Kwanzaa) and Exhibit B (Kate the WASP goes to GoogaMooga) already have been entered into evidence here. …
When Robin Williams visited Jimmy Kimmel Live on Tuesday night, Kimmel was impressed not only just to have Williams on as a guest — it made him feel like he’s actually hosting a TV talk show — but also because he’d heard that Williams performed improvisational comedy with “the kids” …
