The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Each year’s return to award season reminds us how comedy and comedians all too often are overlooked, marginalized or otherwise different enough from other performing artists such that, heck, how can anyone win, really? For every victory or nomination at the Academy Awards for individual achievement — screenplays are often …
Comedians have many opportunities to showcase their big-screen talents throughout the calendar year at film festivals around the world. We pay special attention to Sundance because it comes first in the year, each January, and with it the first best chance for any small independent film to find a larger …
The biennial Night of Too Many Stars benefit, hosted by Jon Stewart and organized by Robert Smigel, has reached new heights in 2012 for Comedy Central and for raising money toward autism research. The benefit show premieres Oct. 21, 2012, on Comedy Central, with a live phone bank taking your …
What’s happening in the comedy world right now… ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live has booked Kimmel’s longtime idol, David Letterman, as a guest for the upcoming week of shows in Kimmel’s birthplace of Brooklyn, New York. JKL will tape a week of late-night shows there from Oct. 29 – Nov. 2. …
What’s happening in the comedy world… Lewis Black’s limited run on Broadway, Running on Empty, opened last night. The eight performances go through Oct. 20, 2012, at the Richard Rodgers Theatre. FX announced it will postpone the broadcast of season four of Louie to spring 2014. It had been planned …
Hey, Louis CK! Why you got your face in your hand? Chin up! You’re a two-time Emmy winner now! Roll the clip: In other TV awarding TV news, no surprises with the continued love for all things Modern Family, big surprise for Jon Cryer winning in the “Lead Actor” category …
I was pleasantly surprised the other night to see Grace Helbig after one of our mutual friends performed in a sketch show at the UCB Theatre in New York City. Imagine that surprise multiplying by infinity not much later, when, upon arriving home and turning on my TV, I saw …
Gil Ozeri stared down Adam Pally for a few seconds that seemed to stop time. Then Ozeri bum-rushed Pally and tackled him onstage. That a sold-out crowd of 479 in the School of the Visual Arts Theatre looked on didn’t seem to deter them from turning their hourlong improv comedy …
Emmy nominations came out, per usual, in the wee hours of the morning so the big three broadcast TV morning shows could cover it live — followed by frantic press releases and phone calls to and from the happy honorees, their publicists, and the rest of the mainstream media. Did …
IFC’s latest greatest comedy series do not debut until June, but don’t tell that to the Internet! Because IFC.com has unleashed two sample episodes of Comedy Bang! Bang! and Bunk to whet your appetites over the holiday weekend and up until June 8, 2012. In the second episode of CBB, …
