The Definitive Guide to Comedy
We’re in the homestretch of episodes that don’t have nearly enough time to showcase 21 stand-up comedians in 44 minutes, as this is the second and final semifinal of season nine of NBC’s Last Comic Standing. A quick pan across the green room and there’s Andi Smith revealing to us …
Last Comic Standing‘s third of four “Invitational” rounds continues to cut, cut, cut — so much so that if you’re not making it to the semifinals, why bother showing us their audition? Eight of the 12 people featured in this hour will move onward. Besides, as even host Anthony Jeselnik …
Welcome back to Last Comic Standing! Or, as new host J.B. Smoove proclaimed near the top of Thursday night’s two-hour premiere on NBC: Smoove “I just want everyone to welcome back to a bigger, better, greater Last Comic Standing!” Hold for applause. What’s different now in season eight, four years removed …
Oprah welcomes some more female comedy to her OWN cable channel this summer, thanks to two stand-up specials hosted by Wanda Sykes that’ll tape in Chicago this week. Wanda Sykes Presents Herlarious will tape this Wednesday at Oprah Winfrey’s Harpo Studios. If you’re 21 or older and want to attend the …
Welcome to the first half of the semifinals in Las Vegas, the night when Dan Naturman gets the shaft for a second time on Last Comic Standing — spoiler alert!!! — where we see if Bill Bellamy tell jokes, and because he has had a career as an MTV VJ, …
So I’m at my college reunion, thinking to myself, is it wrong for me to miss the Hollywood episode of season six of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, can it wait until I get back on Sunday or not, or would it be more wrong, as in wronger, to leave the …
