The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Here’s the thing you have to remember about the Emmys: As much as the TV people like to send out mixed messages (they love to reward buzzed-about series in their first seasons, but also love to reward the same series season after season), you cannot get an EGOT with the …
Sixty acts remain in the running for NBC’s America’s Got Talent in summer 2013, and among them, six comedians who’ll get the chance to compete in the live shows for your votes at Radio City Music Hall, which start next week (Tuesdays and Wednesdays). Who are they? Angela Hoover Dave …
The editing on NBC’s America’s Got Talent is slicker than usual this season. And it’s perhaps even more pronounced for comedians. Take Kevin Downey Jr., for example. Downey advanced to the Las Vegas rounds out of his audition, but we only see him for a minute, only hear him tell …
Which came first for Dr. Bob Baker, putting his hands inside people’s rectums or inside puppets to make them talk? That’s not a rhetorical question. Baker, who bills himself as “America’s funniest gastroenterologist,” decided at the age of 9 that he also wanted to be a ventriloquist. So he does …
Bet you didn’t think your nerd love for Parks and Recreation would come in handy while watching auditions for NBC’s America’s Got Talent, did you? Blink last night and you might have missed Jim Meskimen. Meskimen successfully auditioned on last night’s episode of AGT with impersonations of Robert DeNiro, Robin …
Perry Kurtz is a stand-up comedian who has been performing since 1974, and bills himself not only as a contributing writer for Tonight Show with Jay Leno, but also as a corporate comedian for hire for you with the tagline: “Off the Wall, Off the Cuff, and Never Forgotten.” And …
Not everyone can be Carrot Top. You read that sentence as if that’s a good thing, but before you get all dismissive, try to remember that prop comedy existed before the comedian aka Scott Thompson who performs in Vegas and around the world as Carrot Top, and that prop comedy …
At the beginning of 2013, stand-up comedian Whitney Cummings had three different shows on TV at the same time. Cummings starred in an NBC sitcom bearing her name, Whitney, that she created, produced and wrote for, fronted a weekly talk-show for E!, Love You, Mean It, and co-created and executive produced another …
The Walking Dead, a show about life in Georgia just after the zombie apocalypse, has emerged this year as America’s most popular TV series — not just on cable, but also beating just about anything living and breathing on the broadcast networks among viewers 18-49. As the networks watch viewers …
Taylor Williamson‘s audition went well last night for America’s Got Talent. I could tell it would from the way producers opened his segment, having him bombard other contestants in waiting with street jokes while you could hear buzzers sounding off against even more contestants. They’re pulling a switcheroo on us! …
