The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Longtime friend of the site Dan Pasternack has shared many stories behind his collection of signed comedy albums with McSweeney’s online in a series titled, “My Signed Comedy LPs: One Comedy Nerd’s Obsessive Journey.” Today, Pasternack — head of Big Beach TV and former VP of development and production at …
I feel bad, now, for the comics who grew up idolizing Cosby. It had to affect their decision to begin doing standup and motivate the kind of standup they wanted to do… I hope there’s a way to salvage that kind of inspiration. I never saw or listened to comedy …
The TCA summer press tour began on Tuesday in Pasadena — an annual parade of TV networks and stars, presenting themselves en masse to the TV Critics Association in hopes that their fall series will be welcomed and shared with rave reviews. Or, at the very least, enough buzz to …
Judd Apatow performed stand-up on Monday night’s Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and it’s so fascinating and fun to see Apatow return to the game after some two decades away from it. What he brings to it now, with age and experience and also not having to worry while also …
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 …
Bill Cosby gave young women Quaaludes to make them vulnerable enough so he could have sex with them. Time and time again. Cosby admitted as much under oath in a September 2005 deposition when he was being sued by one of his rape victims — a case later settled out …
Good Morning America and ABC News reporter Linsey Davis sat down with Bill Cosby and the Black Belt Community Foundation, who had invited Cosby to Alabama to talk to students and about education needs near Selma. Davis asked Cosby how he’d approach any backlash from students or the community, seeing …
Forbes prints out a list each year of the 10 comedians who made the most money from touring, films, TV gigs and commercial endorsements. But who’s really raking in the dough? Graduate student Randy Olson followed the money to CelebrityNetWorth.net and then started crunching the numbers. Here’s what he figured …
Norm Macdonald is as straight a shooter of one-liners and longer punchline-laden jokes as there has ever been in stand-up comedy. It made his tenure as Weekend Update anchor stand out so much he was the only one fired from his Saturday Night Live gig midseason. It has made his …
The second episode of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central took off the gloves, “Kept it 100” as Wilmore wants us to turn into a catchphrase, and left no doubt that Wilmore believes Bill Cosby is guilty of serial rape of dozens of women over the past …
