The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Kevin Hart has a new memoir out, “I Can’t Make This Up: Life Lessons,” and he sat down with CBS Sunday Morning to talk about his childhood growing up poor in Philadelphia and finding the funny in his family. Hart will appear this coming weekend at BookCon in New York …
David Letterman has lingered onstage for longer moments these days at the Ed Sullivan Theatre, where his 22 years hosting Late Show with David Letterman are coming to a close on Wednesday night (he hosted Late Night on NBC for 11 years before that). “So when I’m down here during …
Jim Gaffigan has offered commentary fairly regularly recently on CBS Sunday Morning, so this week, he aptly paid his respects to David Letterman. After all, Letterman’s Worldwide Pants produced Gaffigan’s first network sitcom, Welcome to New York, on CBS back in 2000. That sitcom starred Gaffigan as an Indiana TV …
American audiences are just warming up to James Corden. Broadway fans already bestowed a Tony Award to Corden a couple of years ago, and Brits know him from sitcoms such as Gavin and Stacey and panel chats. This Christmas, Corden stars in the new season of The Wrong Mans on …
Chris Rock enjoyed a big weekend of press and publicity in advance of his already critically-acclaimed new movie, Top Five. Mo Rocca interviewed Rock for CBS Sunday Morning. And Frank Rich interviewed him for New York mag’s Vulture. Both are great. In both places, Rock drops the hint that’d he …
Jim Gaffigan delivered timely commentary for CBS Sunday Morning about our very American idea of Thanksgiving. Thanksgiving is intended to be about gratitude. A day of gratitude. Thank God there is a day for us to focus on being grateful, because I’d hate the idea of having to be grateful …
Bill Geist traveled to the Vent Haven ConVENTion in Kentucky this year for CBS Sunday Morning, and of the 575 ventriloquists on hand — and dummies in hand — Geist focused his spotlight on Carla Rhodes. Oh, and of course, a few moments with multi-millionaire global ventriloquist star Jeff Dunham. …
With all of the talk about late-night Jimmys — Fallon and Kimmel — or the latest news regarding Chelsea Handler, what about the old man leading the clubhouse today? Yeah. What about David Letterman. Leave it to CBS Sunday Morning to shine a light on its resident network funny man, …
Hope all of the comedians who are fathers enjoyed their Father’s Day on Sunday. Jim Gaffigan got to wake up on Sunday to see himself, his wife and his five children on the TV as CBS Sunday Morning profiled him. Roll the clip! But wait. There’s more. Gaffigan also found …
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Catskills attracted the crowds and the comedians alike. Several decades later, it’s a much different story. CBS Sunday Morning profiled the upstate New York conclave, and how “Borscht Belt” comedy has survived the changes by moving to where the audiences are. “Every comic did …
