The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If there’s Throwback Thursday and Flashback Friday, what does it mean when two comedians get old-school nostalgic on a Monday night? I don’t know, but that didn’t stop Ray Romano and Arsenio Hall from taking to the mics — standing side-by-side on Monday night’s episode of Arsenio — to trade …
This just in! Spike TV has gathered an all-star collection of comedians to pay tribute to the guy who insulted them all, and did so with love, 87-year-old Don Rickles. One Night Only: An All-Star Comedy Tribute to Don Rickles will feature David Letterman, Jerry Seinfeld, Jon Stewart, Robert De …
“In the beginning of stand-up, it’s the hardest thing in the world, because you are not good,” said Ray Romano. “It takes 30 years to make a good, a great stand-up comic,” Roseanne said. “And it does!” And yet it doesn’t take quite that long to get the attention of …
Must be nice to be the child of a celebrity. Matt Romano, 20-year-old son of Ray Romano, is working as a production assistant for Jimmy Kimmel Live. Ray told us all that when he visited Kimmel’s show on Wednesday, opening the door for the joke Kimmel and young Matt played …
End cards or “vanity cards” as they are known derisively/accurately, are those logos and nonsense that flash at the end of TV shows for two seconds. To be accurate, this year it was cut from 2 seconds to 1 ½ seconds. I don’t know why the studio needed that extra …
At the SPIKE TV tribute to Eddie Murphy in November, Adam Sandler praised Murphy’s first stand-up special, Delirious, and acknowledged that he went to great lengths to be just like Eddie. “I tried to do everything he did in his career,” Sandler said. “I started doing stand-up at the world-famous …
Finding a sincere, sit-down interview with David Letterman is about as rare as finding one with the late Johnny Carson. Which, if you follow Letterman’s career as closely as he has followed Carson’s, makes perfect sense. Almost. But this year, the Kennedy Center Honors have honored David Letterman — the …
New York City-based comedy rock band Fortress of Attitude is halfway through a “12 Christmas Songs in 12 Days of Christmas” project called “Bigger Than Santa.” They may have found their winner with “Carol of the Comedians,” with traditional Christmas tune having its lyrics adapted entirely to names of famous …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Spike TV announced its all-star lineup to celebrate Eddie Murphy’s three decades as a comedy superstar. Chris Rock, Samuel L. Jackson, Tracy Morgan, Arsenio Hall, Brett Ratner, Charlie Murphy, Jeffrey Katzenberg, and Martin Lawrence will participate in Eddie Murphy: One Night Only, which as …
A great new documentary, Johnny Carson: King of Late Night, debuts tonight on PBS. Check your local listings for times and repeat airings. Before you watch it, though, treat yourself to some outtakes. Drew Carey and Ray Romano remember their debuts on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson. In this …
