The Definitive Guide to Comedy
To children of the 1970s or 1980s, he was “Schneider,” the building superintendent for nine seasons on the CBS sitcom One Day at a Time. But to children of the late 1950s and 1960s, Pat Harrington Jr. inhabited an even more unlikely character, as the Irish son of an comedian …
Dan Pasternack and I go back to 2007, when I was just thinking about launching The Comic’s Comic while he was actually launching Super Deluxe. Dan’s career started when he was just a kid, with a song on the Dr. Demento show, and he’s met or worked with just about …
The PBS documentary series, Pioneers of Television, had interviewed Robin Williams extensively just recently for its portraits of him and other groundbreaking comedians of the past 60 years. So, when Williams tragically died last month at 63, they went back through the footage with him as well as with other …
From the makers of the documentary Certifiably Jonathan comes this petition, asking President Barack Obama to declare a National Jonathan Winters Day. It reads, in full: Jonathan Winters (1925-2013) was a truly great American, who should be forever remembered and celebrated. The inventor of improv comedy, Jonathan kept generations of …
About three months ago, I was working in Stockholm, Sweden, when my pal — the comedian and actor Robert Klein — called to tell me that Jonathan Winters had passed away. I knew it was coming. Jon and I had been very close for more than 10 years. Less than …
Jonathan Winters, one of the most inventive and inspired comedians whose career spanned the entire second half of the twentieth century, has died. He was 87. This is the message on his website today: “Jonathan Winters passed away of natural causes at his Montecito, California home at 6:45 p.m. PDT on …
A couple of years ago, you crazy kids went wild on Facebook with the notion that Betty White host Saturday Night Live at the tender age of 88. Sounded great, didn’t it? NBC and SNL listened, booking her for Mother’s Day weekend of 2010 and surrounding her with past SNL …
David Steinberg’s latest comedian interview show — with Steve Carell on-board with him as a fellow executive producer — has a new name, Inside Comedy, and a debut date on Showtime (Jan. 26, 2012). With ten, half-hour episodes, the series will have Steinberg interviewing comedians one-on-one. But with so many …
