The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What’s in a name? That depends upon how much the name, and its uniqueness, is worth to you. For me, personally, I have two very common Irish names. Professionally, I use my middle initial as a more unique identifier to separate me from so many of the other “Sean McCarthys” …
Producers of NBC’s Last Comic Standing hope to resolve a work stoppage that left them without their editing crew Monday when they walked off the job, seeking a union contract. “We’re union supporters, so we’re confident it’ll be worked out to everyone’s satisfaction,” producers told The Comic’s Comic on Tuesday. UPDATE! A …
ICYMI: And apparently I did, as I wasn’t paying close enough attention on Thursday night to the final credits-bumper scene of Community’s fifth-season finale. Which effectively roasted NBC over the coals for all of the failed series it has ordered up in the five seasons while allowing Community’s fate to …
NBC’s Last Comic Standing finally replaced the extended teaser trailer they’d offered up earlier this month to advertisers as a sneak peek, and here’s the new, shorter 39-second clip. More faces, less juicy jokes leaked early. But that’s Joe Machi with a quip about taking a bullet for a lady, …
Maya Rudolph’s variety show pilot has a title, premiere date and guest list, all coming at us next month on NBC. The Maya Rudolph Show will debut at 10 p.m. Monday, May 19, 2014, with guests Kristen Bell, Andy Samberg, Fred Armisen, Craig Robinson, Sean Hayes and Chris Parnell, with …
Nikki Glaser broke up with her boyfriend but they’re back together again, so you can all breathe a little bit easier now. Because the alternative would be porn? No. Not that. Anything but that. Glaser explains in this stand-up performance on Thursday’s Late Night with Seth Meyers. Hit the showers! …
It’s your first day on the job at this radio station, and everything you thought you knew about radio gets thrown out the window. Including your stuff. Because that’s your boss’s idea of a joke. Wait. Why am I telling you all of this? I should be saving this pitch …
We finally got to see the new high-profile judges for the revived eighth season of Last Comic Standing all together in public at the NBCUniversal “summer” media day today. Roseanne, Keenen Ivory Wayans and Russell Peters are this season’s judges for the NBC primetime stand-up comedy competition, which returns with …
Blink and you missed it! It doesn’t have a premiere date on FOX yet, but Mulaney, the starring sitcom vehicle for stand-up comedian John Mulaney, debuted the first clip from its first six episodes on Thursday night’s Late Night with Seth Meyers on NBC. Meyers introduced Mulaney with a clip …
Seth Meyers tells NBC viewers each weeknight to stay tuned for Carson Daly’s even later overnight show, but what really happens at the end of Late Night with Seth Meyers? This cute video imagines how quickly and how radically the inmates take over the asylum that is the Late Night …
