The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Hampton Yount has already seen the past, present and future of cinema, as spoken through the character Crow T. Robot he voices on Netflix’s new edition of Mystery Science Theater 3000. Before that, Yount had emerged from the DC comedy scene with a job writing and performing on MTV’s long-running …
Over the weekend at Comic-Con in San Diego, the cast of the new edition of Mystery Science Theater 3000 and creator Joel Hodgson announced that their 14-episode revival — funded via a massive $5.7 million Kickstarter campaign — will debut on Netflix in the “not-too-distant-future.” The new cast includes host …
MST3K will come back with a brand-new cast, Kickstarted by 30,000 fans already to the tune of $3.5 million and counting. Original creator and star of Mystery Science Theater 3000, Joel Hodgson, launched the Kickstarter in November. Hodgson said the money raised so far will fund six new episodes. If …
In recent years, Comedy Central has recorded seasons of The Half Hour stand-up specials in late February in Boston, but things didn’t go according to schedule in 2015 — which probably was the best for all parties concerned considering how snowed in Boston was this winter! So instead of February, …
Fresh off his performance a few weeks ago at Montreal’s Just For Laughs as a New Face, fresh-faced Hampton Yount made his stand-up debut on Conan Wednesday night. Yount wonders why local TV news anchors use a very specific type of delivery to introduce some stories, lets us know a …
Each crop of New Faces at Montreal’s Just For Laughs is special and unique. John Heffron, who hosted New Faces Group 1 on Wednesday night, told the audience that all of the big-name comedians you’d see at the festival’s Galas started out years earlier as new faces. That might not …
Here they are! Well, most of them anyhow. The list the comedy world waits all year for is out — Montreal’s “New Faces” for Just For Laughs. Last year, two “New Faces” made the leap from Montreal in July to Saturday Night Live in September (Brooks Wheelan and John Milhiser). …
Hey, comedy fans! We’re back with the second episode (and third hour) of the eighth season of Last Comic Standing! What have we missed? Recap of the recap by the voiceover, and now to the new comics! Here is the full episode on Hulu (where available) https://www.hulu.com/watch/642349 TONY BAKER (FULL …
So who received invites to the televised comedy competition that is Last Comic Standing in 2014? Here are your Top 100 who auditioned for Season 8 of Last Comic. The season premieres Thursday on NBC. Not listed in order of finish or preference. Not yet, anyhow. How many of these …
Comedy Central continued its recent tradition of hosting its own variation on a “New Faces” showcase during the New York Comedy Festival. Comedy Central calls it “Comics To Watch,” and offers up the entire live show online — in 2012, Owen Benjamin hosted (a late substitute due to the Nor’easter …
