TBS will broadcast Tournament Of Laughs in Summer 2020
by Who’s got jokes? TBS has given the green light to a seven-episode Tournament of Laughs featuring 32 comedians in head-to-head competition, hosted by SNL alum …
Tag: Gilbert Gottfried
Gilbert Gottfried’s podcast will premiere new episodes first on SiriusXM
Gilbert Gottfried’s Amazing Colossal Podcast! will start airing its newest episodes exclusively on SiriusXM a week before they hit your ears anywhere else. Gottfried’s got …
Review: “Gilbert” at the 2017 Tribeca Film Festival
You know the voice of Gilbert Gottfried. But who is the man behind the voice? That’s the question Neil Berkeley wanted to answer. Berkeley, who …
Your guide to the 2016 New York Comedy Festival
Everybody loves a comedy festival. And in this year of 2016, it doesn’t just feel as though every city has its own comedy festival, because …
Seeso’s “Debate Wars” with Michael Ian Black will reunite Janeane Garofalo and Andy Dick when tapings begin next week
This is a banner week for Michael Ian Black. Black has a new children’s book that he promoted on Late Night with Seth Meyers (you …
The Nightly Show stands up for comedians against politicians: #DickJokesMatter
The most recent Republican presidential debate began on such an unpresidential note, that even though it happened on Thursday night, all of the late-night comedy …
Interviews / TV / Video
Artie Lange on Showtime’s The Nasty Show and finding serenity in his kitchen-based podcast
When was the last time Artie Lange was too nasty for his own good? As he told me in December on my podcast, The Comic’s Comic …
Impractical Jokers celebrate renewal for season 5 on truTV by kicking off 2016 with guest comedians on an Impractical Jokers Cruise
The Tenderloins — aka Sal, Joe, Murr and Q whom you love to watch torture each other on Impractical Jokers — are celebrating the renewal …
Sneak peek: Steve Buscemi’s “Park Bench” interview with Gilbert Gottfried gets interrupted from high above
Steve Buscemi’s talk-show webseries for AOL, Park Bench, was nominated for an Emmy Award for Outstanding Short-Format Nonfiction Program. Nothing is stranger than nonfiction sometimes, …
An oral history of the making of The Aristocrats movie, 10 years later
“The Aristocrats!” the punchline to an old myth of a joke that few people knew or had even heard of, became an instant classic film …