The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jimmy Kimmel devoted his Monday night episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live to the late great Fred Willard. Willard had appeared as a regular guest performer on JKL in post-monologue sketches since 2004, even more so in the past couple of years after Willard’s wife died. (Willard talked to me about …
When I sat down with Fred Willard in February 2020 inside his home in Southern California, he was noticeably weak — I held his microphone for him throughout our conversation — but his mind and his sense of humor was quite intact, and he was still working. In fact, Fred …
“This job looks easy,” Norm Macdonald told Conan O’Brien, gesturing to O’Brien’s role behind the desk as host of Conan. “Do you have the chops to do it?” O’Brien asked Wednesday night. “I’ve been studying it like a Jesuit,” Macdonald said of the tasks required to host a late-night TV …
Forrest MacNeil doesn’t review food, books or movies. “I review life itself,” he declares. Which, in tonight’s debut episode of Review with Forrest MacNeil on Comedy Central, means reviewing stealing, addiction and prom. In that order. It’s the first starring vehicle for Andrew “Andy” Daly, whom you may have seen in …
It’s a rare event when the Jewish calendar and the American secular holiday calendar put Hanukkah early enough to coincide with Thanksgiving. But here we are. So Nick Kroll has beaten us all to the punch with this dummy movie trailer for Funny Die so Hollywood won’t bother with the …
It has been 40 years since Marlo Thomas and her friends made puberty and sex a little easier to swallow for young children with the seminal release of Free To Be…You And Me. Oh no. I didn’t. But Rob Kutner, Stephen Levinson, Joel Moss Levinson and their comedy friends did. …
