The Definitive Guide to Comedy
In case you forgot, this 11th season of America’s Got Talent on NBC features a 6-year-old stand-up comedian in California kid Nathan Bockstahler. For his callback audition during the “Judge Cuts” round on Wednesday night’s episode, Bockstahler certainly didn’t forget his 70 seconds of hot jokes about his parents lying …
Tape Face returned to impress the judges on America’s Got Talent, and even get one of them — Howie Mandel — into the act. You’ll be seeing but not hearing more of Tape Face later this summer in the live episodes coming to NBC. Roll the clip! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A_9MZ59igWA
All of the judges (including guest judge George Lopez) loved Sam Morril’s callback audition as seen on Tuesday’s “Judge Cuts” episode of America’s Got Talent, and yet, they cut him nevertheless at the end of the night when they had to pick only seven of 20 acts to move on …
Desperate times call for desperate measures. The Emmy Awards announced nominees last week for the first time in some 16 years not naming Jon Stewart or Stephen Colbert. On Monday night, both returned to late-night TV in glorious measure. Stephen Colbert teased Stewart’s appearance on The Late Show, but it …
Julia Scotti joked about how she’s still in stand-up comedy at 63 because she needs the burial money, but America’s Got Talent judge Howie Mandel made sure to ask her if she also jokes about “the thing.” That she’s transgendered. The audience loved her, and Scotti’s going through to the …
Adam Grabowski received four yes votes from the America’s Got Talent judges during his 2016 audition as just shown last week, but during tonight’s Judges Cut round, Grabowski claimed they didn’t even air his full bit that he does performing at college campuses. Roll the clips. This was from Grabowski’s …
Lori Mae Hernandez’s feel-good story and her plucky stage presence may have won over the judges even more than her stand-up material, as America’s Got Talent 2016 moved the 13-year-old through to the live shows later this summer. But then, everyone loves a feel good story, right? Roll the clip. …
Julia Scotti is a 63-year-old stand-up comedian who impressed the judges Tuesday night during her audition on America’s Got Talent, then wowed them even more when she explained that she had tried to make a go of a career in comedy for 20 years, then quit, took an 11-year-break, and …
The Upright Citizens Brigade founders have a knack for announcing big news on the eve of their annual Del Close Marathon, and this year is no exception, as NBCUniversal today revealed it has expanded its working relationship with the UCB4 and their improvising minions to include at least five new …
NBC News had touted its big exclusive interview with David Letterman for broadcast this past Sunday, but pre-empted it to air a special report from Orlando instead following last weekend’s shooting massacre there. So Letterman’s interview with Tom Brokaw “On Assignment” for Dateline NBC finally aired last night. We got …
