The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Cathy Ladman celebrated her 10th performance on The Tonight Show, and joked Friday night about how old age has changed her, and her relationships with men and with medications. At least she still knows that jingle about the Erie Canal, though!
I’m Dying Up Here almost didn’t survive to a second season. Dave Flebotte, who with Jim Carrey created the Showtime adaptation of William Knoedelseder’s best-seller about The Comedy Store in the 1970s, told me over the phone last week that when Showtime gave them “a month to come up with what we …
If the Jews supposedly run show business, then how Jewish is too Jewish to get your TV show pitch through the Hollywood system? That’s a valid question for Cathy Ladman, as she explained on Monday’s episode of The Late Late Show with guest host Drew Carey. One thing we all …
This story begins when I was about 8 years old, as most of my stories do. That is the year that I became captivated by comedy. My parents’ record cabinet is where it really all began for me. I listened to everything they had, mostly Broadway cast albums of “Funny …
Cathy Ladman has brought her life-long struggle with anorexia to her stand-up, both in a new one-woman show, “Does This Show Make Me Look Fat?”, as well as her most recent stand-up performance Friday night on the Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Ladman not only performed a set but …
Cathy Ladman performed stand-up again on last night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. For this time around, Ladman let us all in on why and how she went about becoming a mother well into her 40s, the sales tactics her daughter tries out on her, and the discount coupons …
The folks at Montreal’s Just For Laughs uploaded videos last week from its 2008 collection of comedians participating in the New Faces and Masters showcases, so you can finally see what I saw this summer. Rather than bombard you with two dozen embedded video clips, I’m going to embed one …
