The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Spotted in Hollywood, Calif., by noted Internet person Alex Blagg, who quipped: “This guy definitely managed to make the greatest billboard I’ve ever seen.” This guy, Jimmy Miller, is a comedy manager to the stars. And a human being. And brother to Dennis Miller. Who may or may not still …
Living in New York City, it’s difficult to get through a September 11 without thinking about what happened that day in 2001, and yet I hadn’t planned on mentioning it here. Then I saw that two-hour documentary on CBS, 9/11: Ten Years Later, which saw two brothers filming the FDNY’s …
The Upright Citizens Brigade opened its third full-time comedy theater on Tuesday night — its second in Manhattan — with the long-awaited launch of UCBeast. Whether you decide to say it as UC Beast or UCB East, the new 124-seat venue instantly upturns and reinvigorates the East Village comedy scene. …
Jon Rineman not only works on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon as a writer, but he’s also received the opportunity to perform his stand-up comedy on the show, which he did last night. Turns out he has sex on the brain. Whether he’s talking about mannequins or condoms, or having …
In the second season finale of Showtime’s The Green Room with Paul Provenza, Provenza asked Jimmy Carr to explain his theory on why humans laugh, and how it applies to evolution and makes us more advanced than other creatures big and small. Here is how that transpired. Paul Provenza: “Jimmy …
On Sept. 9, 2011, HBO will broadcast a comedy special pairing Mel Brooks with Dick Cavett in conversation, but in this clip, we see that Carl Reiner is there, too, and they’ll be talking about the classic bit Reiner and Brooks used to do about a 2000-year-old man. Roll it. …
The New York Television Festival has unveiled its schedule for Sept. 20-24, 2011, and, aside from the traditional sneak peek premieres of several new fall TV series, the NYTVF also will include a late-night writers panel hosted by SNL’s Jason Sudeikis, as well as the world premiere of Marc Maron’s …
On Tuesday night’s “wild card” round of America’s Got Talent for 2011, comedian J. Chris Newberg decided to scrap the guitar and went with his gut, and his gut told him to surprise judge Piers Morgan with a live roast of Piers Morgan! Newberg hit Morgan right from the start …
In 1997, while Phil Hartman was enjoying his post-SNL fame in primetime with NewsRadio, a 19-year-old aspiring comedian named Mike Scott wrote Hartman a letter and included an audio recording of his early routines. Amazingly, Scott not only received a reply, but also Hartman’s honest assessment of the recording. There’s …
Guess who was spotted inside the new UCB East comedy venue last night? None other than Upright Citizens Brigade founders Matt Walsh, Ian Roberts and Matt Besser, giving a press interview in advance of tonight’s start of the 13th annual Del Close Marathon. At the DCM12 press conference, the UCB …
