The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Sid Caesar, TV’s sketch comedy pioneer, died on Wednesday in his Beverly Hills home. He was 91. Born in Yonkers, N.Y., Caesar began to make his mark at the dawn of our network television age, landing his own show in 1948 with the Admiral Broadway Revue. But it was Your …
Seth Meyers didn’t have to look far to find his new Late Night bandleader. Meyers announced Monday afternoon that his longtime fellow former Saturday Night Live castmate Fred Armisen would be in charge of the 8GBand (as he hashtagged it on Twitter). “Fred will curate and lead the band, and …
“Thank you everybody! Watch Jimmy Fallon! Thanks folks, see ya later. I’m coming home, honey!” — Jay Leno’s last words on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno, NBC, Feb. 6, 2014 But before that. Just before that, came this heartfelt goodbye from Leno behind the desk, as he teared up …
Tonight is Jay Leno’s second final night as host of The Tonight Show on NBC. Instead of revisiting what happened the first time around, Funny or Die looks forward to what happens next. What would Leno do after wrapping production on tonight’s Tonight Show? Where would he go? What would …
The Writers Guild of America held their annual awards in both New York City and Los Angeles on Saturday night, with Colin Quinn hosting on the East Coast, and Brad Garrett later on the West Coast. Congratulations to this year’s comedy and variety winners! COMEDY SERIES Veep, Written by Simon Blackwell, …
The men from ABC’s Full House reunited in character on Wednesday night to sing Jimmy Fallon to sleep and cheer him up as he prepares to move an hour earlier to The Tonight Show. Bob Saget, John Stamos and Dave Coulier reprised their roles as Danny Tanner, “Uncle Jesse” Katsopolis …
Sheng Wang likes seeing ladies at his gym, but he’s not going to try too hard to impress them with his own strength and flexibility. For one thing, he has a girlfriend. Wang explains in this performance from Wednesday night’s Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. With Valentine’s Day around the …
If you think the Late Night franchise at NBC is in a pickle, well, you’re half right. There is a pickle involved. But this is a different sort of dill, er, I mean, deal. On Tuesday night, Jimmy Fallon passed the pickle onto Seth Meyers — the same one he’d …
If you think there’s a lot going on in late-night TV talk in 2014, just wait until you see the humorous convergence taking place the second weekend of March in Austin, Texas. SXSW already announced that Jimmy Kimmel Live will broadcast five shows from the interactive, film and music festival …
The official NBC Last Comic Standing website is still a few days away from making the leap from 2010 to present-day 2014. But the email line is open now if you want Last Comic‘s producers to consider you for an on-air callback audition! That is, if Gmail is working today… …
