The Definitive Guide to Comedy
NBC’s The Office wrapped up nine seasons of documenting the life and times of the employees at Scranton’s Dunder-Mifflin paper company. No spoilers about Thursday night’s finale here. Unless you count this little ditty: “All The Faces,” an original song by Creed Bratton. Which his TV alter-ego, Creed, sang in …
A year ago, Saturday Night Live prepared a finale tribute for Kristen Wiig. What will the show do for Bill Hader this week? Hader has announced he is leaving SNL when his eighth season wraps up this coming Saturday night. “It was a hard decision, but it has to happen …
Welcome to Upfronts! The annual TV pageant in which each network puts its new shows and returning hit series on display for potential advertisers. This differs from the summer and winter press tours only insomuch as these parades of stars aren’t explicitly for the TV Critics Association — no dedicated press-conference …
The fourth season of NBC’s Community is the first without its creator and spiritual meta-guide, but will it be the last for the sitcom that likes to focus entire episodes poking fun at popular TV tropes? Not if Sony Pictures Television has anything to say about it. Or, at least …
This clip of Dov Davidoff from last night’s Tonight Show with Jay Leno is as much fun to watch for what he does as it is for what he says. How Davidoff makes use of the entire stage, how he takes off his jacket midway through his set, how he …
You may recognize Retta as Donna from NBC’s Parks and Recreation. But you better Retta recognize her as a stand-up comedian, too — she performed last night on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon. And even Retta can recognize her own faults in succumbing to modern-day racism and road rage. It’s …
The way media outlets and comedy nerds make such a big deal about who’s hosting late-night TV talk shows, you’d sometimes like to be reminded that most everyone else doesn’t think much about it. But what about the kids, you ask? It’s past their bedtimes, so late-night TV shouldn’t even …
Conan O’Brien had a tough act to follow Saturday night as headliner at the annual White House Correspondents Dinner. President Barack Obama killed with his 23-minute feature spot. President Obama, following Ed Henry from FOX News (who served as the host/opening act), joked that he “had 99 problems, and now …
What are the odds of this? A comedian auditioning last night for NBC’s 2013 summer season of America’s Got Talent performs well, only to be accused by judge Howie Mandel of lifting the bit from another stand-up comedian — who happened to be AGT’s warm-up audience comic that very night …
Patton Oswalt guest-stars on this week’s episode of Parks and Recreation on NBC as a Pawnee resident who filibusters a city council meeting by talking about whatever is on his mind. What’s on his mind? Star Wars. Nothing…but…Star Wars. Specifically, his proposal for Episode VII of the Star Wars movie …
