The Definitive Guide to Comedy
More than 16 months after a horrific highway crash killed his friend and almost himself, Tracy Morgan stood center stage on Saturday Night Live as host to deliver his opening monologue. Morgan had read a prompter for a surprise appearance at the Emmy Awards a month earlier, but this would …
“Paul Scheer and I made a comedy special on a moving bus. A lot of people got killed of course.” That’s what Rob Huebel says, but of course, the name of their weekly comedy showcase at the UCB Theatre in Hollywood is called CRASH TEST. And so, too, is this …
Norm Macdonald and Jim Rash will voice a cartoon series this fall solving mysteries with boxing great Mike Tyson — and that’s not the only odd buddy-buddy series coming this fall and winter to Adult Swim. The late-night bastion of the Cartoon Network unveiled its upcoming programming today (it’ll make …
The race for best little films that could of 2014 begins on the same day that the nominees are announced for the best films of all sizes from 2013. Such is the circle of life for cinema. So just as Academy Award nominations get handed out and congratulatory phone calls …
Imagine, if you will, an alternate parallel universe. Watch a few episodes of Fringe or Sliders first, if need be. OK. Are you ready now? Imagine that in this other world, Rachel Dratch is the lead actress in The Girlie Show, the show within the show of NBC’s 30 Rock; …
NBC let 30 Rock go meta last night, as its second time doing double-duty live shows (one for the Eastern and Central time zones, and one for the West Coast) found the fake show-within-a-show debating the merits of continuing with live shows for TGS. That allowed Kenneth the NBC Page …
