The Definitive Guide to Comedy
George Carlin — who received The Kennedy Center Mark Twain Prize for American Humor mere days before he died at the age of 71 on June 22, 2008 — grew up on West 121st Street in the Morningside Heights neighborhood on New York City’s Upper Manhattan. Comedian Kevin Bartini has been …
In case you missed last night’s episode of Louie, or even if you did watch it, a funny highlight put Louis CK into a writer’s room with a bunch of comedians hired to punch up a weak screenplay in the weeks before production. And our titular comedian/auteur/filmmaker cast a wide …
First Dane Cook, now Doug Stanhope?!?! Louis CK is bringing in some big comedy guns for season two of his groundbreaking cinema verite TV series, Louie. From the title of this clip, it’d appear that Stanhope, unlike Cook, is not playing himself, but rather CK’s “old friend,” “Eddie.” Although he …
A lot of big names in comedy familiar to past editions of the New York Comedy Festival will be returning to headline the 2011 edition this coming November. Louis C.K., Tracy Morgan, Sarah Silverman, Ricky Gervais, Bill Maher, Wanda Sykes, Russell Peters, Kathy Griffin and Norm Macdonald are among the …
This morning at the TCA Summer Tour, FX announced to TV critics that the cable network not only already ordered renewals for Louis CK’s Louie (for season three) and Wilfred (for season two), but also had made a deal with the cast of It’s Always Sunny in Philadelphia for seasons …
After four years, Louis CK and Dane Cook finally got to sit down and hash out the debate among comedy fans — and themselves — about whether or not Cook had lifted three of CK’s jokes. Cook had told me in a 2007 interview that he most certainly hadn’t (even …
After all of these years of people and comedians speculating about whether Dane Cook stole jokes from Louis CK, or whether the two comedians were secretly or publicly feuding about said allegation, we finally get to see Louis CK and Dane Cook sit down in a room together for a …
Through the magic of video recording equipment, you could watch Louis CK on your television last night performing from NYC-based Late Show with David Letterman, while two packed audiences in Montreal saw him perform live there in Canada. Louis CK is in Montreal today, as well, to receive the Just …
Congratulations, Milwaukee. You are your fine people will be part of the show on April 18 when Louis CK films his third stand-up comedy in three years, and most likely his best yet, "Louis CK: Hilarious," at the Pabst Theater. Show times: 8 and 10:30 p.m., and tickets are on …
That's right. Louis CK just recorded enough material Saturday night in Boston from his ongoing "Hilarious" tour to fill two CDs. When I mentioned this to him after he finished signing autographs and taking photos with fans, he realized he hadn't thought about the limitations of the compact disc — …
