The Definitive Guide to Comedy
All week back in Harlem at the Apollo, Team Coco is celebrating the New York Comedy Festival and the TBS partnership with it by featuring a stand-up comedian on each episode. Monday: Former Last Comic Standing winner Rod Man. He joked about how differently you’ll react in a crosswalk when …
Just in time. Rod Man, who won the eighth season of Last Comic Standing last summer, has earned himself a deal for a pilot script with NBC to develop his own starring vehicle in a multi-cam sitcom. Yes, the development year for Fall 2016 already begins in full earnest with network …
Fresh off his win last Thursday on NBC’s Last Comic Standing as the season 8 winner, Rod Man made his debut later that night with a short set on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Corporate synergy! You have some of this already this season during his winning campaign on …
This season they let the judges and not the viewing or the studio audience decide. So it was a celebrity expert panel of Roseanne, Russell Peters and Keenen Ivory Wayans who ultimately handpicked Rod Man, a journeyman stand-up, husband and father in Los Angeles originally from Georgia, to win the …
Say it ain’t so, Joe Machi! Spoiler alert. The one finalist I personally knew already out of the four remaining comedians in season eight of NBC’s Last Comic Standing won’t get to compete in the two-hour season finale for the title and the cash and prizes that come with it. …
NBC’s Last Comic Standing made the penultimate cruelest cut last night, winnowing the field from five to four. The show also introduced Jay Leno as a guest mentor, although I’m not sure what advice he gave them to help in this particular challenge, nor why our finalists had to fly …
Jay Leno appeared briefly on NBC’s Last Comic Standing as the guest mentor for season eight’s top five finalists, before they faced a studio audience and the judges in the first full head-to-head-to-head-to-head-to-head stand-up challenge. We didn’t get to hear or see much of Leno on the TV broadcast Thursday …
You know what? Last Comic Standing really has gotten a lot of things right in its eighth season. When Last Comic did a roast several years back, it felt like a backroom thing. Low-budget. This time around it not only dressed up the contestants in black-tie, but made the whole …
We have our five finalists on season 8 of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and now we know we’ll be able to see them all perform live in a theater near you this fall. The show announced a tour that kicks off Sept. 16, 2014, in Tuscon, crosses America and back …
If there ever were a challenge that I know I could have won on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, then this week’s Universal Studios Tram Experience challenge showed me the way. Back in the late 1990s, while living in Seattle as a young stand-up comedian and improviser myself, I got hired …
