The Definitive Guide to Comedy
New Wave’s Comedy Dynamics debuted its new Hulu channel today. You can check out the following stand-up comedy specials at your convenience, free of charge. The initial lineup at launch includes: Louie Anderson, Big Baby Boomer (2012) https://www.hulu.com/watch/653723 Josh Blue, Sticky Change (2012) https://www.hulu.com/watch/658206 Kyle Cease, Weirder. Blacker. Dimpler. (2007) …
Mike Flinn (@realmikeflinn) isn’t just a podcast producer and engineer; he’s also an avid fan of the form. “My Pod Week” recaps and reviews the many varied comedy podcasts Flinn listened to or attended live tapings of during the previous week. Enjoy! JIM FLORENTINE’s “COMEDY METAL MIDGETS” (Jim Interviews Comic Friend …
The men from ABC’s Full House reunited in character on Wednesday night to sing Jimmy Fallon to sleep and cheer him up as he prepares to move an hour earlier to The Tonight Show. Bob Saget, John Stamos and Dave Coulier reprised their roles as Danny Tanner, “Uncle Jesse” Katsopolis …
Jack Vaughn launched Comedy Central Records in 2002 and won four Best Comedy Award Grammys with them. Before then, you pretty much had to have a major record label interested in stand-up comedy to record your headlining act for posterity. And you pretty much had to be a household name …
Which popular sitcom cast from the late 1980s and early 1990s isn’t reuniting for a Super Bowl commercial on this Groundhog Day?! That’s a fairer question, now that we know that the three father figures of ABC’s Full House — Bob Saget, John Stamos and Dave Coulier — have reunited …
The Grammy Awards have a longstanding reputation for being terminally unhip, and then trying to right that by swinging to the other extreme and rewarding the trendiest recording artists of the moment. The 56th annual Grammy Awards nominees are no different in that respect. Even in, and perhaps even more …
The Friars Club Roast of Jack Black brought down the grand ballroom Friday afternoon at the New York Hilton, as upward of 3,000 of New York Friars Club members, dignitaries, celebrities and friends gathered to pay tribute to the actor/musician through one-liner barbs. Bob Saget served as the Roastmaster on …
In case you missed it last night, Norm MacDonald had quite the rambling chat session with David Letterman. Really. It was all over the map. But Letterman finally got what he wanted in the end, giggling throughout MacDonald's story about Bob Uecker seeing John Fogarty. Apparently, Uecker must not be …
A quick look at comedy and comedians making news in the past day: — iTunes is giving away Denis Leary's audiobook for free, or at least 26 minutes of it. I'm sure it's almost as entertaining as listening to Kenny Powers. Almost. — The New York Times pretends the world …
I knew I should have gone to today’s Friars Club Roast of Matt Lauer! I’d seen Jeffrey Ross try out some of his roast jokes earlier this week at Seth Herzog’s Sweet show at The Slipper Room, but reluctantly didn’t ask Ross to get me into the roast. Argh. Ross …
