The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedian Scott Moran launched a new “weekly documentary Web series” on Monday called “Modern Comedian,” looking into the on- and offstage lives of stand-up comedians. Moran, from Washington State and now based in New York City, posed his first examination this week at Kurt Braunohler (above), the host of IFC’s …
When you have a couple of hours to spare, please spare yourself the time to learn (or re-learn) your history of television. Who knows? It might come in handy the next time our world sees a sea-change in technology. Like. Oh. Say when the Internet becomes the medium and the …
A great new documentary, Johnny Carson: King of Late Night, debuts tonight on PBS. Check your local listings for times and repeat airings. Before you watch it, though, treat yourself to some outtakes. Drew Carey and Ray Romano remember their debuts on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. In this …
EPIX revealed its upcoming original programming plans for the rest of 2012, which includes a reunion of the living members of Monty Python for a documentary on the late Graham Chapman, as well as a new stand-up special from Jim Norton. “These original programs are a great complement to the …
Eddie Pepitone is a Los Angeles comedian from New York whom you may know from his small role in the movie, Old School, or…why don’t I just let you watch these comedians tell you who Pepitone is, in this teaser trailer for the upcoming documentary on him called The Bitter …
Robert Weide achieved unprecedented access to Woody Allen over the past couple of years, and with it, produced this fantastic documentary about the 75-year-old (he turns 76 on Dec. 1) comedian-filmmaker’s life. So much footage from rare interviews with him from decades ago that you probably never saw nor remembered, …
Kevin Hart’s fans turned out for him in the opening weekend of his new stand-up concert film and documentary, Laugh at My Pain, scoring $1.91 million at the box-office. It’s the best opening-weekend performance for a stand-up comedy movie since Martin Lawrence Live: Runteldat pulled in $7.37 million in August 2002. …
Kevin Hart cites Eddie Murphy, Richard Pryor, Martin Lawrence and The Kings of Comedy as his inspiration for bringing his latest stand-up effort to the big screen as a concert film. But Hart may have Louis CK as much to thank for getting Laugh at My Pain into movie theaters, …
September 2011 certainly is shaping up to be a big month to see the past, present and future comedy of Marc Maron. Maron’s independent TV pilot based on his podcast, WTF with Marc Maron, will debut Sept. 20 during the New York Television Festival. Before and after that, you’ll be …
Today during the TCA summer tour for America’s TV Critics Association, Showtime announced it had ordered 10 half-hour episodes of a comedy interview series, Laughing Stock, hosted by David Steinberg and executive produced by Steve Carell. If that sounds familiar, it’s because Steinberg, who turns 69 on Aug. 9, hosted …
