The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Maybe having Jay Leno announce your renewal on-air during your show wasn’t the best idea, after all. Late today at the end of an off week, The Arsenio Hall Show found out its second season would not be happening this fall. Instead, CBS Television Distribution announced it’s canceling the show. …
Jasper Redd wanted to address America last night, and so he spoke out on Arsenio. The comedian envisioned a day in which President Barack Obama finds his legacy commemorated in coin. Perhaps the penny? Redd jokes about how the penny is the blackest of money, and uses “his third eye” …
Bill Cosby dropped by for a good bit of the hour Wednesday on Arsenio, not only delivering almost seven minutes of stand-up — in which he joked about how old people only talk with each other about their current medications or their late parents — then reminisced about the time …
Black may not crack, but Paul Mooney, at 72, shows signs of wear and tear. On Monday night’s episode of Arsenio, he ambled onstage with a cane, and seemed to be in no sweet hurry to get anywhere anytime soon in his late-night TV performance. Mooney joked that host Arsenio …
Michael Blackson bills himself as “The African King of Comedy.” You got a problem with that, Modasucka? Blackson performed stand-up on Friday’s episode of Arsenio, and let us know that Compton has a new visitor. Please do not call him a booty-scratcher or anything that refers to the darkness of …
If you want to know what’s really going on with Katt Williams, don’t try believing whatever the tabloid magazines or gossip sites mislead you into thinking, especially when you can go straight to the source. Thank goodness for Arsenio Hall. Having Arsenio back on late-night TV provides a place where …
When is the last time you remember seeing Jimmie Walker do stand-up comedy on the TV? If you remember Jimmie J.J. Walker, then Dy-N0-Mite! Good times. Good Times! Walker performed Tuesday on Arsenio, and noted that he’ll have to change his racial profile now that Latinos have become the dominant …
If there’s Throwback Thursday and Flashback Friday, what does it mean when two comedians get old-school nostalgic on a Monday night? I don’t know, but that didn’t stop Ray Romano and Arsenio Hall from taking to the mics — standing side-by-side on Monday night’s episode of Arsenio — to trade …
Earthquake, the comedian not the tectonic shift of plates underground, is 50 years old now, and on Wednesday night’s Arsenio, he joked about how dating has changed since he was a younger single man. Take that, Fantasia. Don’t take that, Precious. Earthquake ain’t afraid of a “little ugly.” This could …
Performing on Arsenio was a childhood dream come true for Gabriel Iglesias. Even if the Fluffy Guy is not a kid anymore. He’s a man who works on movies for adults (Magic Mike) and kids alike (Planes). Working for Disney is much different than working for Nickelodeon, though. I’ll let …
