The Definitive Guide to Comedy
NBC’s Last Comic Standing finally replaced the extended teaser trailer they’d offered up earlier this month to advertisers as a sneak peek, and here’s the new, shorter 39-second clip. More faces, less juicy jokes leaked early. But that’s Joe Machi with a quip about taking a bullet for a lady, …
We finally got to see the new high-profile judges for the revived eighth season of Last Comic Standing all together in public at the NBCUniversal “summer” media day today. Roseanne, Keenen Ivory Wayans and Russell Peters are this season’s judges for the NBC primetime stand-up comedy competition, which returns with …
The American Comedy Awards just added one more category to the mix at the last minute (after voting for everything else had ended March 18 (see above!)), to recognize stand-up comedians who play concert-sized rooms and not just clubs. After culling names from the “Industry Committee” (we each received three …
THIS JUST IN! MARK YOUR CALENDARS! NBC is making Thursday nights must-see TV for comedy fans as of May 22, 2014, with the return of Last Comic Standing — with new host JB Smoove and new judges Roseanne Barr and Keenen Ivory Wayans, along with international comic sensation Russell Peters …
Fantasy football leagues have become so widespread and commonly accepted as a hobby that it’s the focus of a long-running sitcom on FX, The League. Why not spin the concept out, and have a fantasy comedy league? That’s what the comedians at SiriusXM decided. Last Friday on “Fridays with Breuer,” …
For someone who is one of the biggest stand-up comedy draws in the world, Russell Peters doesn’t appear all that often on the American late-night talk show circuit. Peters recently did Jimmy Kimmel Live for the first time in seven years, and last night performed for the first time on Late …
Russell Peters is a global superstar in comedy, and his third arena tour of North America visits the new Barclays Arena in Brooklyn on Saturday. Before that, though, Peters sat down for an hourlong chat with comedian Jim Norton (photographed above by Maro Hagopian) in the SiriusXM headquarters in New …
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Jeff Dunham’s new ventriloquism special, Minding The Monsters, played to 5.02 million viewers when it premiered Sunday night on Comedy Central. Comedians Daniel Sloss and Sam Morril have signed with New Wave Entertainment’s Maureen Talan for management. They join Gary Gulman and Andrew Norelli …
Documentary filmmaker Morgan Spurlock kicks off the second season of his Hulu series, A Day in the Life, with a look at comedian and WTF podcast host Marc Maron. You’ll see Maron’s cats, his coffee-making prowess, his “cat garage” where he produces most episodes of WTF, including the first part …
Among the many weird things that happened this July at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival, one of the weirder but possibly predictable things was that Tony Clifton caused trouble. It’s where and when he did it that’s newsworthy, as Paul Provenza had invited the longtime comedy character (played at times …
