The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Steve Martin and Martin Short, longtime comedy pals and touring mates, will head back to TV, or rather, Hulu, for their next project. Hulu announced at the winter TCA press tour a straight-to-series order for a murder mystery comedy starring the duo. But will there be a third amigo? The …
Aptly titled. Oh, you want more? Fine. Steve Martin Short fits even better. But An Evening You Will Forget For The Rest of Your Life definitely fits the bill, as I sit here a month and a half later and cannot tell you much of what transpired, even if I do …
The five surviving members of SCTV’s original cast, plus Martin Short, will reunite for a Netflix special filming this spring in the United States and Canada. Joe Flaherty, Eugene Levy, Andrea Martin, Catherine O’Hara and Dave Thomas also are joining Short for “An Afternoon with SCTV” panel talk, moderated by …
Steve Martin and Martin Short have been touring together for years now, so it’s about time somebody recorded their act and made it available for your on-demand viewing pleasure. Anyone surprised that it’ll be on Netflix? Here are the fellas with their announcement. Are they calling it Steve Martin Short, …
In case you missed it Monday night on PBS, here is the edited full telecast from last month’s celebration of David Letterman for receiving the 2017 Mark Twain Prize for American Humor. Edited out: Sen. Al Franken (D-Minn.), who had introduced clips of Letterman’s “Monkey-Cam” as well as Funny or …
Jake Thomas, nephew of SCTV star Dave Thomas, sustained a massive spinal cord injury this January that has left him paralyzed from the waist down. To help not only Jake and his family, but also help fund research and other patients at Spinal Cord Injury Ontario, Dave Thomas has organized …
“What is this?” Both Martin Short and Kenan Thompson both asked variations on that question during the opening monologue for the debut episode Tuesday night of Maya & Marty on NBC. In short, it’s Saturday Night Live alums (mostly), performing in front of a live audience (but taped on Thursdays …
Steve Martin remains a great showman after all these years, and whether you want to nitpick about whether he has or hasn’t performed stand-up in the past 35 years and what constitutes stand-up exactly, but it’s great to see Martin entertaining the people live. And that’s exactly what he did …
There’s something about putting Maya Rudolph and Martin Short on live TV from inside 30 Rock that just works. It did for Rudolph from 2000-2007, it did for Short in 1984-1985, and it worked magically for the two of them together a year ago this weekend for SNL 40. So …
Today’s guest is David Feldman, who was born into show business and currently hosts another podcast with ShowBriz Studios, The David Feldman Show. But who is David Feldman? We dig deep into his life and career, from growing up watching his influential broadcasting father in New York City, to young …
