The Definitive Guide to Comedy
When Johnny Carson retired into the late-night sunset, never to be seen again except for a rare appearance on The Late Show with David Letterman, I was OK with that. But Letterman retiring didn’t seem exactly right. Certainly he couldn’t keep up with the Jimmy Fallons or James Cordens. Certainly …
Cristela Alonzo couldn’t help noticing, and stopping to notice, the massive Netflix billboards promoting her first stand-up hour for the streaming platform, Cristela Alonzo: Lower Classy, which premiered today. Just as I couldn’t help myself from telling Alonzo last week how I happened to notice Whole Foods in Austin was hiring …
“Yeah, that was a weird thing,” Zach Galifianakis told Conan O’Brien, almost two years after he had sat down with President Barack Obama for an installment of his Funny or Die series, Between Two Ferns. “I went to the White House before we shot it,” Galifianakis told O’Brien on Tuesday’s …
That moment when the president of the United States takes a moment during a news conference about a nuclear agreement with Iran to weigh in on dozens of rape allegations against comedy legend Bill Cosby. President George W. Bush awarded Cosby the Medal of Freedom in 2002. Would President Barack …
President Barack Obama appeared as a guest on Thursday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live on ABC. Before he sat down for an interview with Kimmel, Obama took part in the show’s popular recurring segment, “Mean Tweets,” reading aloud the jabs that random trolls and other people have typed about him …
Believe it. That’s President Barack Obama, sitting with Zach Galifianakis for this very special edition of Between Two Ferns for Funny or Die. Guess what, Obama will do anything to plug healthcare.gov. Galifianakis: “I have to know, what is it like to be the last black president?” Obama: “Seriously? What’s …
Chris Rock, a Brooklyn native, helped Jimmy Kimmel close out his Brooklyn week of Jimmy Kimmel Live with a special pre-taped message directed to white voters about the re-election campaign of President Barack Obama. Turns out, if you really think about it, Obama is white. Genetically, he’s half-white. Which is …
The kids over at Saturday Night Live have a running gag sketch about the FOX News morning program, Fox & Friends, and its propensity for making up the news, lying about it, then being forced to make corrections for its goofs later in the day. In SNL’s parallel parody universe, …
The years since Stephen Colbert shocked the White House Correspondents Dinner — and then sitting President George W. Bush — have seen the so-called “nerd prom” (how are they nerds and how is this a prom, exactly?) veer every which way but loose in a systematically reactive process in trying …
