The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Sad news to report, as Jimmy Kimmel’s real-life “Uncle Frank” Potenza, a former NYPD officer and security guard who worked on camera on Kimmel’s ABC talk show Jimmy Kimmel Live, died today. He was 77. Information about a memorial service is forthcoming. Kimmel’s TV show already had just begun a …
TV shows and their online video policies are weird. Take Jimmy Kimmel Live, for instance. The ABC late-night chat show has its own YouTube channel and puts most of every episode online the next morning, but does so by splitting every segment up into multiple bits. I learned from another …
No, really. How many pop-culture names and brands did Aziz Ansari name-drop during his eight-minute chat on Jimmy Kimmel Live? Make your guess, then watch and see how close you came:
Kumail Nanjiani did Jimmy Kimmel Live last night. Saying you live in Brooklyn sounds so much different when you're on TV in Los Angeles than it does when you're in a New York City comedy show and you say you moved to Bushwick. Also, what's so difficult about pronouncing his …
Various personal matters have kept me from blogging as much as I'd like the past few days, so please pardon my delay in sharing with you this footage from Dane Cook's most recent appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live. The guys compete to see how many marshmallow Peeps they can stuff …
Quick recap. David Alan Grier went on ABC's Dancing with the Stars after Comedy Central didn't renew Chocolate News, then the judges thought because he was a comedian, they could tease him more than the others, then Grier thought he could tease them back with some profanities after he got …
Over the past few years, Nick Kroll has amassed quite a bit of on-camera experience saying funny things, from VH1's Best Week Ever to sitcoms such as Cavemen and Worst Week. But many things still amused me on Wednesday night when I watched Nick Kroll make his network television debut …
Just as ABC is refuting a report in today's New York Times that it may move Jimmy Kimmel a half-hour earlier into Nightline's spot, the late-night ABC news program just happened to devote a segment to stand-up comedy. What a delightful coincidence! Nightline stopped by the Comedy Cellar, talked to …
If you saw Jimmy Kimmel Live last night, then you already know that Sarah Silverman appeared as one of Kimmel’s guests, and it was their first time together on the TV since they had broken up and gotten back together. So they made some awkward panel chat to let us …
Happy St. Patrick’s Day, everybody. How are you celebrating? Are you going to be appearing on a late-night TV talk show? No? Well, then, who will? (Note: Listings subject to change) David Letterman…Monday: Rainn Wilson; Tuesday: Al Franken; Wednesday: Seth Meyers; Thursday: Vince Vaughn; Friday: Al Lubel Conan O’Brien…Monday: Lance …
