The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Modern Family remains a hit for ABC in its seventh season, and that network has successfully expanded that family sitcom template in the past couple of seasons to include blackish, Fresh Off The Boat, The Goldbergs, and coming next week, they hope to do likewise with The Real O’Neals. CBS …
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 …
The madness of another presidential election continues to shine all-star comedy on Saturday Night Live, as even before Larry David hosted this 12th episode of season 41, the Bernie Sanders campaign let everyone know that the Democratic junior U.S. Senator from Vermont and presidential candidate would leave New Hampshire for …
For as much as we think we know about the making of each Saturday Night Live episode, we still don’t get to see the magic of those early Monday pitch meetings, when the cast and writers meet with that week’s host and offer up ideas for sketches. I imagine JB …
When Roy Wood Jr. started interning in morning radio and working in his native Birmingham, Ala., he initially thought he might be the next Ricky Smiley. Wood’s determination and hustle, as well as his talent for prank calls, led him on a slightly different path slowly but surely up the …
Seth Herzog is what Malcolm Gladwell would call a Connector. The Zog seemingly knows everyone in comedy and show business who lives and works in New York at any given moment, and on any given Tuesday, you might see one of his famous friends onstage or playing sidekick to Zog …
There’s a moment in the beginning of I’m Your Girlfriend, the new hour stand-up special from Whitney Cummings (and her first for HBO), in which she stops to examine the audience members in the front row for her taping. “I’m shooting my HBO special. No big deal. This has been …
Jimmy Fallon’s Tonight Show tenure will receive a second-anniversary primetime party on Valentine’s Day, followed by a week of shows broadcast from Universal Studios in Universal City above Los Angeles. NBC announced the celebration and L.A. visit for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon during the network’s turn Wednesday before …
For her third appearance performing stand-up on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, Iliza Shlesinger went back to catch viewers up on her notion of the “party goblin,” a concept explaining that part of your subconscious that talks you into making poor decisions that she has joked about before — …
In this age of “Too Much TV,” we’re also here in New York City living in the age of Too Much Tuna. Gil Faizon and George St. Geegland are peaking. Their Off-Broadway run at the Cherry Lane Theatre has drawn rave reviews from The New York Times and other comedians, …
