The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Howard Stern used his first and only touch of “The Golden Buzzer” to save an act on the ninth-season premiere of NBC’s America’s Got Talent. Stern’s save was a joke. Dustin’s Dojo is a joke act. A guy who says he learned karate at a pizza place in Pensacola (OK, …
Last Comic Standing is back, and so is Dan Naturman — only this time, Naturman is finding his comedic success thanks to America’s Got Talent. A decade ago, Naturman infamously pitted the celebrity judges against the producers of Last Comic; the judges loved Naturman but claimed producers wouldn’t let him …
Welcome back to Last Comic Standing! Or, as new host J.B. Smoove proclaimed near the top of Thursday night’s two-hour premiere on NBC: Smoove “I just want everyone to welcome back to a bigger, better, greater Last Comic Standing!” Hold for applause. What’s different now in season eight, four years removed …
Ali Wong has some good news bad news happening in her personal life — on the one hand, she recently got engaged; on the other, her fiance has a gluten allergy. And ’til death do you part means forever because Wong is Asian. As she explained Thursday night in this …
Look at this photo and tell me which drummer is comedian Will Ferrell and which drummer is Chad Smith of the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Exactly. The two men finally faced off in a drum-off on Thursday night’s The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, all for charity and arranged via …
To one generation of comedy fans, he was a plucky kid from Philadelphia — a young gun of Sam Kinison’s “Outlaws of Comedy.” To another, he is a classic, high-energy road-dog headliner. On a recent podcast with his agent, Rich Super, Jimmy Shubert described himself as one of Super’s “very …
Kimmel went to Austin for SXSW. Conan went to Dallas for March Madness. Now Fallon will take his show on the road, first stop: Orlando. Orlando? Universal Studios Orlando, as in NBCUniversal (Studios), will play host to The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon‘s first TV road trip for the week …
So who received invites to the televised comedy competition that is Last Comic Standing in 2014? Here are your Top 100 who auditioned for Season 8 of Last Comic. The season premieres Thursday on NBC. Not listed in order of finish or preference. Not yet, anyhow. How many of these …
It meant something to Roseanne Barr that her comedic peers were involved in the revival of Last Comic Standing after a four-year layoff. Season eight begins Thursday on NBC with JB Smoove hosting, Wanda Sykes executive producing, and Keenen Ivory Wayans and Russell Peters joining Barr as the three judges …
Can the variety show come back into our lives like a prodigal son or daughter? Can the networks give a variety show more than a just a single backdoor pilot episode to make itself at home with us? Whichever question is the better one, we did get to see the …
