The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Before “Bang Bang” was a catchy summer song of 2014, it was an appetizing double-feature of a meal that Robert Kelly shared with Louis CK and the world at-large on the fourth season of FX’s Louie. Post by Louie. In 2015, Kelly is all about the Bam Bam, as in …
The cowardly massacre of 12 people, including cartoonists at Paris satirical magazine Charlie Hebdo, a police officer and bystanders, made all of us in the comedy community pause to reflect on the nature of free expression and the importance of civility amid chaos. Some joined massive demonstrations in Paris, New …
You’ll hear a lot in the trades and the trade winds from now through pilot season, which starts in earnest in January, all the way up to the cable Upfronts in the spring and the broadcast network Upfronts in May — when TV programmers present their new and returning lineups …
American hero “Stephen Colbert” closed out his nine-year run of hosting The Colbert Report with one final edition of “The Word,” by cheating death (sorry, Grimmy), by inviting a who’s who of who’s that to sing along with him to the tune of “We’ll Meet Again,” and then by flying …
We knew that “Stephen Colbert” would interview President Barack Obama on Monday night’s The Colbert Report, but we didn’t know that Obama would upstage Colbert even earlier into his episode, taking over just as Colbert was about to deliver “The Word” segment. As the president said, “How hard could this …
With only eight shows left, “Stephen Colbert” is going out with a bang on Comedy Central these next two weeks, starting tonight with a field trip to Washington, D.C., to sit down with President Barack Obama. It’s been a long, strange, wonderful trip with The Colbert Report. And we’re all …
Trevor Noah made his debut Thursday night as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and the South African stand-up comedian let his presence be known immediately by tricking Stewart with a game called “Spot the Africa.” Interesting times to compare the perspectives of the lives of black …
Every new “correspondent” on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart gets to break in a new suit as Stewart breaks him or her into the show. Well, not every new comedian. Hasan Minhaj made his debut on Comedy Central’s news satire program Wednesday night in a T-shirt, not delivering the …
Last night’s episode of Key & Peele featured a dark satirical sketch that opened with the words: “Everything you are about to see is true.” It then takes us back to the 1987 “Jazz Fit Champonship” where the two finalists, Flash and Lightning, receive some life-and-death information during their already …
Jeff Dunham showed up with his longtime dummy, Walter, on Friday night’s Late Show with David Letterman, and Walter is as curmudgeonly as ever. Because if he weren’t, Walter says Dunham’s ventriloquist show “would really suck.” And then you wouldn’t get to hear these Kardashian jokes, Obama jokes, or why …
