The Definitive Guide to Comedy
NBC allowed comedians to start spreading the word, one month ahead of the premiere of season 9 of Last Comic Standing, that they’re appearing and competing among the Top 100 stand-ups selected for the “Invitationals” round of auditions — taped this spring before judges Roseanne Barr, Keenen Ivory Wayans and …
Strapping fireworks to your body and jumping up, down and around while they shoot into the air might not be considered high comedy, but if you’ve ever performed in the San Francisco or Seattle comedy competitions, then you probably have met or encountered Wally Glenn. Glenn has been the longtime …
Uzeyer Novruzov said he was channelling the spirit of the late great Charlie Chaplin for his audition on season 10 of NBC’s America’s Got Talent. But his stunt work up and down and atop a freestanding ladder certainly looked more like something Buster Keaton would have pulled off in one …
In my book, comedian Jeff Dye already won this summer’s celebrity talent challenge on NBC, I Can Do That, since the network announced last week that Dye will join another all-star group for NBC’s Better Late Than Never this August. Dye sees it differently. “I’m very happy that you just …
As a lifelong native New Yorker, Colin Quinn must have appeared in multiple episodes within the Law & Order universe on NBC, right? You’d think that, wouldn’t you. So would Quinn. Especially since every other NYC comedian and aspiring actor has performed a turn in one or more of the …
How confident must producers of Last Comic Standing be of their bounty of stand-up comedians for this summer’s ninth season? Production already wrapped back in April, the show won’t debut on NBC for another six weeks, and yet — tickets already started going on sale to see the LCS finalists …
Paul Zerdin is an Englishman who has won TV talent shows across the pond in his youth. But Zerdin is older now, and he, just like Englishmen of old, wants to conquer America. And so here he is, auditioning for America’s Got Talent‘s 10th season on NBC. He performed vocal …
Producers for NBC’s America’s Got Talent tried to pull a quick fast one on viewers, making a joke out of the reveal that auditioner Scott Heierman is a bearded lady. But Heierman had the joke on them — since, of course, the 25-year-old who delivers pizzas in Lexington, Kentucky, is …
It has now been a year since the June 7, 2014, New Jersey Turnpike crash that killed comedian James “Jimmy Mack” McNair and almost killed Tracy Morgan, Ardie Fuqua and Morgan’s assistant, Jeffrey Millea. On May 27, Walmart — whose tractor-trailer driver had rear-ended the limo van carrying the comedians …
Gina Brillon‘s sister has low self-esteem, and it’s not because Gina is a stand-up comedian, or why she is. Nor does it explain why Gina sees a therapist herself. A therapist might be a better dating option for her than the young boys in New York City who keep hitting …
