The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In case you missed it, this week on ABC’s new episode of Celebrity Wife Swap, comedian Gilbert Gottfried and comedic actor Alan Thicke spent time in the other man’s shoes and households, living with the other man’s wife. Actually, it’s the wives who switch homes and families, and find out …
At the SPIKE TV tribute to Eddie Murphy in November, Adam Sandler praised Murphy’s first stand-up special, Delirious, and acknowledged that he went to great lengths to be just like Eddie. “I tried to do everything he did in his career,” Sandler said. “I started doing stand-up at the world-famous …
Gilbert Gottfried has enjoyed a long career in comedy by telling dirty jokes and offending people. Last year, however, Gottfried apologized for a joke he wrote on Twitter that made light of the tsunami that devastated Japan. It was his first apology over a joke. He explained his thought process …
Anthony Bourdain famously holds back “No Reservations” on his Travel Channel series, which has begun its final season of road-tripping this month. Bourdain can expect comedians to not hold back, either, when they “roast” him as part of the 2012 New York City Wine & Food Festival. Mario Batali and …
Comedy Central taped its annual roast over the weekend — in 2012, the “target” or “victim” is Roseanne. The Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne will air at 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific on Sunday, Aug. 12, 2012, but the cable channel already has put up a few video highlights for you to …
Comedy Central has announced the preliminary roster of comedians and celebrities who’ll line up on the dais for the Comedy Central Roast of Roseanne this coming weekend. The roast tapes Aug. 4, and will debut on the cable network on Aug. 12, 2012. Your comedian roasters are, unsurprisingy, “The Roastmaster” …
I’m not sure what the Intelligent Channel is on YouTube or why this exists, but I’m glad it exists. Richard Belzer sat down with Gilbert Gottfried for 20 minutes and talked to him about his jokes — including the Japanese tsunami jokes that got him fired from his Aflac gig, …
I knew I should have gone to today’s Friars Club Roast of Matt Lauer! I’d seen Jeffrey Ross try out some of his roast jokes earlier this week at Seth Herzog’s Sweet show at The Slipper Room, but reluctantly didn’t ask Ross to get me into the roast. Argh. Ross …
Which Today Show personality is trying her hands at stand-up comedy? Al Roker? Good guess, but no. Matt Lauer? Despite his girlish hands, it won’t be him. Didn’t you read the headline on this post? It’s Ann Curry. Here is photographic evidence of Curry with Gilbert Gottfried, and no, they’re …
In case you haven’t been following the Internets, ABC News recently struck up a partnership with its Times Square neighbor, Carolines, for a weekly interview/performance segment called Carolines on GMA Now. Club owner Caroline Hirsch also takes part in the segments and often has her own questions for the comedians. …
