The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Haley Joel Osment was just a kid when he made his movie debut in Forrest Gump, racked up TV appearances as Jeff Foxworthy’s sitcom son and the Murphy Brown baby growing up, and earned his first Oscar nomination at the tender age of 11 for seeing dead people in The …
Scott Aukerman got his first big break as a writer/performer on the HBO cult classic, Mr. Show with Bob and David. But he’s responsible for many more big breaks, not only as host of the Comedy Death Ray and Comedy Bang Bang live shows at M Bar and the UCB …
First a Grammy Award, now this? Comedy Bang! Bang! indeed! IFC announced today that “Weird Al” Yankovic, the king of all musical satire and parody, reigning to this day as current holder of the Grammy Award of Comedy Album of the Year, has joined Scott Aukerman as the bandleader and …
Reggie Watts and I go all the way back to the very beginnings of The Comic’s Comic and even before that. I had moved out of Seattle by the time Watts emerged on the scene there as a show-stopping force, not only as singer and frontman for the band Maktub …
Set your countdown clocks: The 17th Annual Del Close Marathon is a little more than a month away — now serving up improvised comedy from thousands of performers across nine stages from 4 p.m. Friday, June 26, 2015, through the end of Sunday evening, June 28. Hosted and organized by …
NBC’s Parks and Recreation says goodbye tonight with a series finale that already would have been bittersweet to its cast, crew and viewers; made much more so with the death last week of one of its own, 30-year-old writer, co-executive producer and Pawnee Animal Control’s “Harris,” Harris Wittels. The show …
Scott Aukerman will lose his Comedy Bang! Bang! bandleader Reggie Watts when this fourth season of their IFC series ends, but this week’s couch guest is ready to take the musical comedy sidekick reins. Presenting Kid Cudi. Cudi, who has worked with the likes of Jay-Z, Kanye West and Mary …
Five years ago, performance artist Marina Abramović sat and received many visitors for brief face-to-face sessions at MoMA, documented and captured in a subsequent HBO documentary about her. Last night, Reggie Watts began his own face-to-face experience with visitors to NYC’s Public Theater as part of the Under the Radar …
The Late Late Show on CBS will have its first-ever in-house musical bandleader when James Corden debuts in March 2015, and it’s none other than one-man musical genius Reggie Watts! Watts comes with plenty of mock-talk show experience as the bandleader on IFC’s Comedy Bang! Bang! with Scott Aukerman, which …
Who are you dressing up as for Halloween? Wayne and Garth from the SNL sketch and movies, Wayne’s World, is a fun, retro choice, honoring the characters made famous by Mike Myers and Dana Carvey. So nice they’re on TV at least twice this Halloween. First, this morning, Kathie Lee …
