The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The 2016 presidential election still hasn’t recorded a single primary or caucus vote yet, but the campaigns already have been so chock full o’ nuts that the Saturday Night Live all-stars keep getting called back in for active duty. We’ve seen Larry David as Bernie Sanders, Amy Poehler as Hillary Clinton …
Saturday Night Live opened with a bit of a surprise — former SNL superstar Will Ferrell returned with his infamously successful of former President George W. Bush (the impersonation that gave us “strategery”) to announce he’d jump back into the race for 2016 and try to win a third term. …
Wait. What now? Humza Arshad is a 29-year-old YouTube comedian in London, born to Pakistani parents and brought up Muslim. He studied performing arts in college and followed that up with drama school. In 2009, Arshad joined YouTube, where his first effort was a five-episode webseries, “Chronicles of Tuttoo,” about …
If you’re wondering what Dennis Miller was doing in Austin for the Moontower Comedy Festival on Thursday night, look no further than his younger brother, Rich. Rich Miller is a co-owner of Austin’s Cap City Comedy Club who also books, manages or owns comedy clubs across the country — and …
Alpha House, one of Amazon Studio’s first TV series, has proven successful enough that creator Garry Trudeau has had to shelve the previous creation he’s still better known for: His comic strip, Doonesbury. Alpha House stars John Goodman, Mark Consuelos, Clark Johnson and Matt Malloy as four U.S. Senators sharing …
While FOX News tries to use propaganda to make you feel bad for “demonizing the rich,” the writers on long-running FOX hit comedy, The Simpsons, have a long-running mega-millionaire who does the demonizing himself. Mr. Burns. Missssssterrrrrr Burrrrrrrrnnnnnnss. Usually, if you pay close enough attention during the opening credits, you’ll …
Pauly Shore has long since popped “The Weasel.” And Shore is not dead, either — that was merely a ploy to attract viewers to his 2003 mockumentary, Pauly Shore is Dead. No. At 44, Shore has taken his comedy career in a completely different direction. As in, inside the Beltway. …
On the same day that President Barack Obama visited The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Comedy Central published the results of a comprehensive study it had commissioned to understand how humor impacts the political beliefs of Millennials (also known as Generation Y) — the 80 million Americans currently aged 16-32. …
Every four years, the presidential campaigns take hold of our TV lives at the end of the summer with the major party political conventions. The Democrats and Republicans still secure at least an hour of live primetime coverage each night on the big three broadcast networks, as well as additional …
Here is your obligatory topical video of the day, featuring President Barack Obama, making a phone call to help get out the vote for his re-election campaign this fall. On the other end of the phone? Harold & Kumar!? The movie trilogy stoners, played by actors John Cho and Kal …
