The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Watching the new fall season of network TV, it’s easy to forget that none of these shows exists in a vacuum. You may love or hate an individual sitcom or show, but its placement on the primetime schedule has as much to do with the politics of what else is …
Dave Stone made his network TV debut over the weekend on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Stone had food on the brain. And in his stomach. Stone also has jokes about working with a comedian with very specific jokes about hunting. Very specific. Roll the clip! Stone was a …
Did you know that Phil Palisoul won the 2013 Great American Comedy Festival competition this summer in Nebraska? Fun fact. Palisoul’s good fortunes continued into early fall, as he got to perform last week on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. His set includes one of the gosh darned funniest …
Kathleen Madigan learned more about her parents during a recent two-week visit with them in the Midwest, and she shared her findings on Friday night’s Late Show with David Letterman. For one thing, Madigan is amazed at the U.S. Postal Service for raising the price of stamps — but not for …
Bob Newhart starred in two classic hit sitcoms — The Bob Newhart Show, 1972-1978, and Newhart, 1982-1990 — but it wasn’t until last night that he could take home his first Emmy, as Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series, for The Big Bang Theory. Newhart just turned 84 this …
Andi Osho is an established stand-up comedian in Britain but a new face for American audiences, and she made her debut TV appearance on this side of the pond on Friday night’s edition of Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. Osho has some issues with online dating, which requires no …
Dan Naturman made his fourth appearance on Late Show with David Letterman on Friday night’s show, and crushed it. Killed. You’ll learn in under five minutes why Naturman hasn’t gotten married yet, how it’s too easy to have children, how he finally upgraded his cell phone package, what he knows …
Here’s something you don’t see, well, pretty much ever. Cameron Esposito made her late-night and network TV debut Tuesday night on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. The show already promised to be a doozy since Jay Leno was Ferguson’s other guest. What made this show extra special and unique …
“I’m in a suit! This is big time for me!” That’s how Sean Donnelly opened his network TV debut last night on Late Show with David Letterman. Just a month ago, Donnelly was one of the New Faces at Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival. Of course, two other New …
TV networks spend billions of dollars each year for ideas you’ll never see on television. That’s a bold statement. But it’s nevertheless true. Literally. And also by the bass-ackward “new” “definition” of “literally” adopted through repeated utterances on Parks and Recreation. So, too, there’s research and development, and then there’s what’s …
