The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Fresh off his win last Thursday on NBC’s Last Comic Standing as the season 8 winner, Rod Man made his debut later that night with a short set on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Corporate synergy! You have some of this already this season during his winning campaign on …
This season they let the judges and not the viewing or the studio audience decide. So it was a celebrity expert panel of Roseanne, Russell Peters and Keenen Ivory Wayans who ultimately handpicked Rod Man, a journeyman stand-up, husband and father in Los Angeles originally from Georgia, to win the …
In case you missed it, here was Wendy Liebman‘s performance on the big stage at Radio City Music Hall during her live quarterfinal round of America’s Got Talent on NBC. It took a few seconds for the big theater stage to catch on to her classic delivery style, but she …
Say it ain’t so, Joe Machi! Spoiler alert. The one finalist I personally knew already out of the four remaining comedians in season eight of NBC’s Last Comic Standing won’t get to compete in the two-hour season finale for the title and the cash and prizes that come with it. …
Neal Brennan went on Late Night with Seth Meyers last night to promote his new Sundance series based on New York magazine’s The Approval Matrix. But first, Brennan also wanted us all to know he spoke with Tracy Morgan on Monday. Physically, Morgan’s recovery may be slow. But mentally, Brennan …
Darik Santos is relatively inexperienced compared to the other stand-up comedians selected for the live quarterfinal rounds of the 2014 season of America’s Got Talent. According to his profile video, he’s living in a small house with his girlfriend’s father? Interesting. That’s also not exactly the parking lot I pictured …
File this under unsurprising surprises. NBC officially renewed summer sitcom Welcome To Sweden for a 10-episode second season. It keeps the Peacock Network in business with Greg Poehler — brother of network darling Amy, and who himself was named one of Variety’s 10 Comics To Watch just last month. And …
NBC’s Last Comic Standing made the penultimate cruelest cut last night, winnowing the field from five to four. The show also introduced Jay Leno as a guest mentor, although I’m not sure what advice he gave them to help in this particular challenge, nor why our finalists had to fly …
Jay Leno appeared briefly on NBC’s Last Comic Standing as the guest mentor for season eight’s top five finalists, before they faced a studio audience and the judges in the first full head-to-head-to-head-to-head-to-head stand-up challenge. We didn’t get to hear or see much of Leno on the TV broadcast Thursday …
Hot off the heels of performing individually and collectively in Montreal’s Just For Laughs, the cast of Undateable received news late Thursday that NBC had picked up their summer series for 10 more episodes, with season two coming in 2015. The sitcom seemingly burned through all its 13-epiosde debut season …
