The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Bobby Moynihan stars in the upcoming FX animated series, Chozen, which brought him on a promotional visit Thursday to Late Show with David Letterman. But Letterman also wanted to know just how Moynihan got on Saturday Night Live to begin with; for starters, performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre for …
When NBC Nightly News anchor Brian Williams announces your hiring, then you know you’ve arrived — no matter the job. Such was the case Monday night for comedian Sasheer Zamata, added to the cast of Saturday Night Live as a featured player. SNL is still on winter break, so Zamata …
J-L Cauvin found funny earlier this year by impersonating Louis C.K. telling and selling classic jokes, so here he is once more as 2013 turns into 2014, Cauvin one-ups himself by producing and starring in a webseries, “Louis CK’s Comedy Academy.” You want to be a comedian, you say? Watch …
What happens when Arsenio Hall welcomes not just an impersonator of himself, but himself in the past? Well, that happened last night when Paul Scheer appeared on Arsenio as “ArScheerio Paul,” the character he inhabited for a webseries re-enacting classic moments from the 1990s version of Hall’s late-night talk show. …
Vince Vaughn and Owen Wilson have made some great comedy movies together (Wedding Crashers) and some forgettable ones (The Internship), too. OK, maybe just those two films. For Halloween, comedian Dan Perrault wonders how they might ruin some of our horror movies as well, in this parody for Fandango. Perrault …
Feel like you’re not seeing enough yet of new Saturday Night Live cast member Beck Bennett? Sure, you could just wait for another commercial break on TV and hope that it’s one of his AT&T ads at the little kids table. Or you could watch this behind-the-scenes montage of SNL’s …
Fans of the late George Carlin may know that Carlin’s comedy career actually began first as a radio disc jockey, and then as a duo with Jack Burns. But few who think of the legendary stand-up comedian remember or are quick to recall it was Carlin’s knack for impersonations — …
Have you made the move to FXX yet? Totally Biased with W. Kamau Bell made its new nightly debut (well, new episodes Mondays-Thursdays, with a best-of “remix” on Sundays) last week, and a highlight was having staff writer Janine Brito challenge guest Tracy Morgan to a Tracy-off. It took Morgan …
In Kanye West’s world, he growls “I Am A God.” In our comedy world, that script is flipped, and Saturday Night Live‘s Jay Pharoah impersonates Yeezus with a dash of Wilfred in this music video parody, “I Am A Dog.” The video is from Above Average, the webseries production shingle …
Angela Hoover took on celebrity moms in her semifinal performance on last night’s live episode of America’s Got Talent on NBC. If celebrities are just like us, as the tabloid magazines suggest, why then are they getting so much praise for acting like us? That’s the premise for Hoover’s routine, …
