Comedy Central’s Roasts as a Stand-Up Springboard to Stardom
by Is comedy’s Roast Era over? Or just in time-out like much everything else thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic? We’ll have to wait to find out. …
Tag: Greg Giraldo
Episode #97: Greg Giraldo biographer Matt Balaker
Matt Balaker is writing a book about Greg Giraldo; scratch that, he’s writing THE book on Greg Giraldo, as there hasn’t been a proper biography …
Facing Addiction: Maureen Wittels’s letter for her late son, Harris
Harris Wittels died a year ago today. The comedian and writer was only 30. He’s one of far too many victims of addiction to drugs …
Real talk from comedians about depression and mental illness
The suicide of Robin Williams, devastating as it was not just for his family and closest friends but also to millions of us fans around …
Inside the resurrection of Last Comic Standing, talking to executive producers (present) Page Hurwitz and (past) Barry Katz
A lot can happen in four years. Just look up at that photo, from the last time we gathered to celebrate and commiserate over the …
Doug Stanhope on Opie and Anthony: On Dr. Drew, suicide, and debating alcoholism with Jim Norton
Doug Stanhope brought his latest stand-up comedy tour into New York City, with gigs Sunday and Monday night at B.B. King’s in Times Square, and …
They saw the Larry the Cable Guy Roast so that you could live
Comedy Central's Roast of Larry the Cable Guy taped its raucous proceedings last night in the greater Los Angeles area, and through the power of …
Cheech & Chong: Reunited & Roasted
Before I get to my review of Cheech & Chong: Roasted, the TV show that'll air on TBS at 10 p.m. Sunday, Nov. 30 — …
Root of All Evil, season two begins tonight
Comedy Central’s Root of All Evil starts its second season tonight, with host Lewis Black and a rotating duo of comedian prosecutors arguing that (blank) …
Montreal 2008: News, notes, highlights, quotes
It’s time for one last look around the 2008 Montreal Just For Laughs festival, which Variety reports raked in $10 million (which is about the …