The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Golden Globes may be criticized year-in and year-out for skewing nominations and awards to the hottest celebrities, but what about the Webbys? For all of the great work uploading and exploding online, the Webby Awards is a corporate entity that traditionally recognizes and honors the star-power in the Internet. …
It’s Opening Day for Major League Baseball, and also the 75th anniversary of Abbott and Costello’s classic baseball comedy sketch, “Who’s On First?” ESPN’s Chris Connelly looked back at “Who’s On First” with help from Jimmy Fallon and Steve Higgins — who crafted an update to the sketch over the …
Jerry Seinfeld visited The Tonight Show with Jay Leno last night to promote his webseries, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee,” and as Seinfeld is wont to do, he performed stand-up before hitting the panel. For his stand-up set, Jerry chose to revisit some old familiar ground: Food. Even more familiar for …
Jerry Seinfeld returned to Late Show with David Letterman tonight, but on this trip, Letterman turned the tables on Seinfeld, asking when he might be invited as a guest on Jerry’s webseries for Crackle, “Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee.” Well. Would he? Could he? Should he? Seinfeld joked about Letterman …
At the SPIKE TV tribute to Eddie Murphy in November, Adam Sandler praised Murphy’s first stand-up special, Delirious, and acknowledged that he went to great lengths to be just like Eddie. “I tried to do everything he did in his career,” Sandler said. “I started doing stand-up at the world-famous …
Are Fallon and Higgins our generation’s Abbott and Costello? Who is Billy Crystal? A.D. Miles is doing what? I don’t know…Jerry Seinfeld? What is one of the most famous comedic dialogues of all-time? No, what is A.D. Miles, head writer for Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. Answers to all of …
Jerry Seinfeld is the cover subject of this weekend’s New York Times Magazine, in which the 58-year-old comedian and mega-millionaire is profiled and studied to see why a 58-year-old comedian and mega-millionaire would continue to write jokes and tell jokes in front of people on a regular basis. If you’re …
New York City-based comedy rock band Fortress of Attitude is halfway through a “12 Christmas Songs in 12 Days of Christmas” project called “Bigger Than Santa.” They may have found their winner with “Carol of the Comedians,” with traditional Christmas tune having its lyrics adapted entirely to names of famous …
What’s happening in comedy now… Jerry Seinfeld announced a benefit show of his own for Long Island’s victims of Hurricane Sandy, with all proceeds of the show donated to local relief groups. Raised in Massapequa, Seinfeld will perform Dec. 19, at the NYCB Theatre in Westbury. Tickets go on sale …
Jerry Seinfeld usually drops in at New York City comedy clubs in the days leading up to his appearances on Late Show with David Letterman, so he can work out the kinks of what he’ll joke about during a stand-up set or even on panel chat with Letterman. But Seinfeld …
