The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Best Week Ever is no more, once more. VH1 broadcast the last weekly installment of comedic commentary on Friday night. On Monday, the full episode — which featured actor Chris Klein, comedians/actresses Jessica St. Clair and Lennon Parham of USA’s new series, Playing House, and the full contingent of comedians …
Last year, TV showrunner/executive producer Mike Royce shared with The Comic’s Comic the photo gallery of vanity cards used on his various Snowpants Productions — Lucky Louie with Louis C.K. on HBO, Men of a Certain Age with Ray Romano on TNT, and 1600 Penn on NBC. You can view …
Did you know that before Michelle Buteau got married, she went Dutch? And then she married Dutch, so to speak. Her husband is from Holland is what I’m trying to say. Alrighty. Having gotten that fact established, Buteau, as seen on VH1’s Best Week Ever and the upcoming FOX sitcom …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
After a three-year hiatus, Best Week Ever returns to VH1 tonight with a brand-new cast of comedians (no host this time around) to reflect upon the week that was in pop culture headlines. The BWE VH1 Class of 2013: Michelle Buteau, Michael Che, Pat Dixon, Pete Lee, Jared Logan, Amanda …
Notice something different about this video? Trick question. There actually are two things different about Michelle Buteau‘s appearance Tuesday night on Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: 1) The red curtains, which represent the new TV studio Ferguson started using on Monday, which means Buteau was the first stand-up comedian …
“Do you win anything here?” Cyndi Lauper asks during the second episode of Would You Rather…? with Graham Norton. That’s the main and maybe only thing holding up BBC America’s introduction of comedy panel “game shows” to the States. Filmed in New York City before live studio audiences, Would You Rather…? …
Labor Day weekend in Seattle means the biggest music and arts fest of the year there, aka Bumbershoot. A decade ago, the weekend attracted names both big and small in music to come together in celebration of culture and all things good and fun, with one show or maybe two …
So we begin the sixth season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and already it’s clear they’re still playing from the American Idol of Comedy playbook, what with host Bill Bellamy delivering the introduction…wait for it…turn on the lights…to a large audience! Get it? This is big, people. Anyhow. We’re going …
Word has it that BET is working on a documentary special for this summer on black comedy. A crew interviewed the members of the Brooklyn Comedy Company (Baron Vaughn, Elon James White, Jordan Carlos and Michelle Buteau) last month and will be recording footage Saturday night at a special edition …
