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Kirk Fox only really looks like That Guy when he’s sporting his mustache. Fox had more of a five o’clock shadow going on when he filmed his Showtime special in Santa Barbara during, and he realized that “that guy” not only refers to memorable character actors in TV and movies, …
“If I’m doing my job correctly, it’s going to be a beginning to a new chapter in their life.” That’s stand-up comedian Kirk Fox. But he’s not talking comedy. He’s talking the talk as the host of new daytime syndicated program, The Test. As he noted on his Twitter feed …
Looks as though Kirk Fox has passed Dr. Phil’s tests. Phil and Jay McGraw’s Stage 29 Productions (which puts out other daytime TV fare such as The Doctors) has announced plans for Fox to host The Test, a one-hour talk show syndicated throughout America on Tribune stations and others through …
It’s not easy being a woman in a male-dominated profession, and comedy is no different. Except that it certainly feels different. Because even when women in comedy are funny and try to make fun of this situation, it can go awry. Like, oh, I don’t know, take today’s offering on …
That saying about things happening in threes has gotten a bit of an X-rated revamp over the weekend, as a threesome of images popped up on my Internets involving porn star actresses in mainstream comedies. To be sure, a few of the men and women who have had sex in …
CBS has debuted its online series, Heckle U, as the first night of March Madness opens. The series stars stand-ups Owen Benjamin and Kirk Fox as the kings of heckling. Benjamin's character, Chance, acknowledges that he "was raised by a dive bar." He met Darrell (Fox) in basketball tryouts in …
We always frown upon heckling in live comedy, but when it comes to college basketball? Just keep it clean. And also, know your target — you don't want to give the opposition the inspiration it needs (not that we have learned that from personal trash-talking experience, mind you, ahem). CBS …
Kirk Fox told me he felt more than a little weird about the taping of his Comedy Central Presents half-hour, which debuts tonight on Comedy Central. After all, his mother had just died before his taping in August. And he mentioned it onstage, too. One secret you didn’t know about …
Or a recap of other shows and stuff from Friday and Saturday at the 2007 U.S. Comedy Arts Festival Stephen ColbertColbert received his Person of the Year award from CNN’s Jeff Greenfield, as they sat in front of a giant poster/mock magazine cover of Colbert as the Person of the …
