The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Say goodbye to The Late Late Show with James Corden this week on CBS. We also gave our RIP’s to Dame Edna (Barry Humphries), heard from Richard Lewis why he’s retiring from stand-up, and as always, a roundup of the week’s news within the comedy industry, all of last week’s …
After watching the music video for Carlie and Doni’s “Gangsta Waitress,” you may not understand exactly why Lily Tomlin and Richard Lewis are in it. But it landed them here, so there’s that. And Tomlin has played waitress before, both on the big-screen and in real life. So there’s that, …
Want to talk Last Comic Standing with one of its "potential" (ahem) finalists? Esther Ku is offering a live chat on her site at 10 p.m. Eastern once tonight’s semifinals show from Vegas ends. I’ve already warned Ku to watch out for the crazies! Related: Ku was a guest last …
Passover ends tonight, and the 92Y’s spring comedy series kicks off tonight with Richard Lewis in a conversation with Keith Olbermann. Coincidence? Probably. Here is a clip of Lewis and Olbermann talking on MSNBC on Valentine’s Day. Coincidence? Less likely. Lewis also has a new memoir out called The Other …
The 92Y has announced its spring slate of funny and topical discussions about humor on the Upper West Side. So let’s see what they’ve got lined up… April 9: Garrison Keillor April 27: Richard Lewis, interviewed by Keith Olbermann April 28: Norman Lear May 13: Andy Borowitz on politics and …
Set your DVR/TiVos for tonight. It’s HBO’s Sixth Annual Young Comedians Show (9:30 p.m. EDT on HBO-Comedy, also repeats twice on Saturday, March 22, and the early morning of March 28). The Smothers Brothers host and provide a lengthy 15-minute warmup session, then announce that the young comedians this year …
Richard Lewis is back in New York City, performing at Comix this President’s Day Weekend. And it reminded me that, coincidentally, my lengthy, therapeutic chat with Lewis happened two President’s Days ago. Read it here.
Ask Richard Lewis how his President’s Day is, and he’ll reply, which president? "It depends," he told me. "If Abe Lincoln was president, I’d be jumping up and down. I was a big fan of Clinton and FDR, although he was a little slow getting rid of the Nazis. I’m …
