The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Set your DVR/TiVos for tonight. It’s HBO’s Sixth Annual Young Comedians Show (9:30 p.m. EDT on HBO-Comedy, also repeats twice on Saturday, March 22, and the early morning of March 28). The Smothers Brothers host and provide a lengthy 15-minute warmup session, then announce that the young comedians this year …
Jerry Seinfeld’s lawyers are arguing that Seinfeld essentially botched a joke about the woman who’s suing his wife for plaigarism. What’s the deal with that? Seth Rogen, late to a party, and slightly gay about? Who’d ever guess that? And no, I won’t embed this video. Apparently, the comic strip …
Jerry Seinfeld dropped in Thursday night for a surprise 25-minute set at the Comedy Cellar during the early show, didn’t stay long afterward. Just in case you were curious about such things.
As you can see on my home page, I already highly recommend you buy and read Steve Martin’s new memoir, "Born Standing Up," if you have any inclination at all in learning what it takes and what it means to be a stand-up comedian. The back cover of my copy …
If people were tired of seeing Jerry Seinfeld seemingly everywhere this month, it didn’t show Friday night for either him or the 4,000 cheering fans at Caesars Palace for The Comedy Festival, where he was introduced to the stage as "the star of the number one movie in America." After …
Many comedians cover similar material in discussing relationships and observational humor. Tom Papa demonstrated that well enough in 15 minutes warming up the packed Wang Theatre crowd for Jerry Seinfeld last night. Of course, Papa’s NBC sitcom only lasted a few episodes, while Seinfeld’s has been heralded as one of …
Two things might have caught the eye of patrons to comedian Jerry Seinfeld’s show Friday night at the new Dodge Theatre in Phoenix, Ariz. On a nearby sidewalk, people were scalping tickets (Seinfeld has two more sold-out shows tonight, four in all) while country station KNIX-FM (102.5) was broadcasting live …