The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show tenure will receive a second-anniversary primetime party on Valentine’s Day, followed by a week of shows broadcast from Universal Studios in Universal City above Los Angeles. NBC announced the celebration and L.A. visit for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon during the network’s turn Wednesday before …
The Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre recently opened a brand-new training center in New York City, and they’re about to open their first legitimate training center in Los Angeles, too, which also will include an 85-seat cafe theater — the UCB’s fourth performance space. UCB Theatre Sunset, 5419 W. Sunset Blvd., …
So, this happened at the UCB Theatre in Los Angeles on Sunday night. A table reading of the screenplay for Space Jam, the 1996 film that starred Michael Jordan with the Looney Tunes animated characters that fictionalized Jordan’s retirement from the NBA and his comeback — on film, joining Bugs Bunny …
On March 23, 2013, a funny thing happened in the sky above Los Angeles. A skywriting plane wrote letters in cloud form amid the blue sky. An “H,” followed by an “O,” then a “W,” eventually spelling out: “HOW DO I LAND?” The joke culminated the efforts of Kurt Braunohler’s Cloud …
If you live and/or work in Hollywood, then you know — or at least have heard the joke — that everyone there is in show business, wants to be in show business, or used to be in show business but now just sits on the beach and stares out at …
