The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Stand-up comedian and actor Louie Anderson died Jan. 21, 2022, after being hospitalized in Las Vegas for DLBCL Diffuse large B cell lymphoma. Anderson was 68. Born March 24, 1953, as Louie Perry Anderson, the second-youngest of 11 children grew up in St. Paul., Minn. He began his comedy career …
The CW is showcasing stand-up comedy on Tuesday nights this summer, starting tonight, in a new “Happy Hour” series in conjunction with Comedy Dynamics. The specials will air from 9-10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific, then be available to stream online the following day on The CW. Jim Gaffigan kicks off the seven-week …
Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival has booked Louie Anderson to deliver its keynote address for the 2019 comedy confab next month. Anderson’s address, “Never Give Up,” will touch on his 40 years of ups and downs in show business. His career has made a big splash of a comeback since …
A year ago this week, Comedy Dynamics filmed six stand-up comedy specials back-to-back over consecutive nights at The Palace Theater in Los Angeles, all of them with the same opening and closing montages. They released them over a period of several months this year, available everywhere but Netflix. Among them: …
Louie Anderson dropped by Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers, and the comedian has some suggestions for making shopping for clothes easier or at least more enjoyable at big and tall stores. And yes, he’s still trying to eat right. Well, what’s right, exactly? Roll the clip!
Louie Anderson won an Emmy Award for his performance as Christine Baskets in FX’s Baskets. He previously won Emmys two decades earlier for his voiceover work in his own animated series Life of Louie. He’s also hosted Family Feud, made a memorable early splash in the Eddie Murphy movie Coming …
Louie Anderson won an Emmy Award last year for his role as Zach Galifianakis’s mother on FX’s Baskets, but here on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Anderson joked about trying to sit down for a meal with someone who’s decidedly more healthy. Roll the clip.
What were the nine most-liked shots I photographed and shared on my Instagram page for @thecomicscomic in 2016? Tracy Morgan inviting his daughter to take the mic after his Carnegie Hall performance at the 2016 New York Comedy Festival, and I was fortunate enough to be standing in front of …
The 2016 Primetime Emmy Awards, handed out Sunday night live on ABC, saved its biggest prizes for repeat winners but had plenty of opportunities to reward first-timers in the first half-hour of the telecast. In just the first few categories: Louie Anderson won his first Emmy Award, in the supporting …
Kyle Cease first caught my attention in the 1990s when we both were getting started in the Seattle comedy scene. He already was headlining clubs as a teenager then, and parlayed his youthful exuberance and success into scene-stealing bit parts in movies such as 10 Things I Hate About You and …
