The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Rory Rosegarten started his career as a comedy manager by the time he was 20 with a whopper of a first client: the already legendary Robert Klein. More than four decades later, as founder and still president of The Conversation Company, Rosegarten manages a small but highly successful comedy clientele — …
In this video for the Child Mind Institute, comedian Ray Romano reflects and realizes that all the anxiety and depression he faced when he was younger would turn out to benefit him as a comedian. Because people connect by identifying with each other. Roll the clip!
Would you believe Ray Romano had never released an hour-long comedy special until now? Romano, 61, put out an HBO half-hour in 1996, the same year he got his hit CBS sitcom, Everybody Loves Raymond. As he explains in his first Netflix special, Right Here, Around The Corner, he decided to go …
Not everything needs to be a period piece. On the small screen, both Marc Maron and Pete Holmes brought their recent pasts into present-day so they could have the best of both worlds for their comedic purposes in IFC’s Maron and HBO’s Crashing. Similarly, when Kumail Nanjiani and Emily V. …
The Big Sick, written by Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani, is based on the beginnings of their real-life romance a decade ago, but updated to today. Michael Showalter directs, with Judd Apatow and Barry Mendel producing, Zoe Kazan playing Emily, Holly Hunter and Ray Romano playing her parents, and …
truTV’s behind-the-scenes comedy history series, truInside, has focused on classic big-screen comedies over its first six weeks: Airplane!, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, Bridesmaids, The Jerk, Heathers. But this Monday’s episode spent an hour inside the Olive Tree Cafe and its more famous basement dwellers at The Comedy Cellar. The …
Today’s guest is Phil Rosenthal. Everybody Loves Raymond, but we’re still getting to know Phil, the hit sitcom’s co-creator who is leading us around the world thanks to his new food and travel show on PBS, I’ll Have What Phil’s Having. His first season took us to Tokyo, Italy, Paris, …
The Comic Strip on New York City’s Upper East Side opened for business 39 years ago this coming Monday: June 1, 1976. From the start, the stand-up comedy club was a launching pad for some stellar careers, including Eddie Murphy, Jerry Seinfeld, Ray Romano and Chris Rock. Many more came …
Ray Romano, who owes his life on television to David Letterman, will host the CBS tribute to the reigning king of late-night TV on May 4, some 16 days before Letterman signs off one final time as host of the Late Show. David Letterman: A Life On Television will air …
“What a dream come true. Thank you to the incredible Ray Romano! You are one of my heroes. One of the first videos we ever put online was the Romano parody seven years ago. So this was a dream come true to do it with the actual Ray Romano. It’s …
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