The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Tig Notaro’s “Good One” wound up on multiple best-of lists in 2011. The CD certainly opens with a bang, as Notaro is brought onstage by good friend Sarah Silverman (how many stand-up comedians can match that starpower in an introduction?), and in less than a minute, Notaro has opened with …
David Steinberg’s latest comedian interview show — with Steve Carell on-board with him as a fellow executive producer — has a new name, Inside Comedy, and a debut date on Showtime (Jan. 26, 2012). With ten, half-hour episodes, the series will have Steinberg interviewing comedians one-on-one. But with so many …
In case you missed it Friday night, and of course you did, because why would you be at home on a Friday night watching MSNBC, then you missed Sarah Silverman telling Rachel Maddow all about her planned “Live from N*****head (Stripping the Paint off of Good Old-Fashioned Racism)” comedy show …
Of the 24 acts still competing in the 2011 season of America’s Got Talent, there remains only one comedian, and she is Melissa Villasenor. Villasenor and 11 other acts performed Tuesday night in one semifinal, with five of them advancing this week to the final 10. For her brief time …
Friends of The Comic’s Comic Zach Galifianakis, Jonathan Ames and the gang have filmed season three of Ames’ HBO comedy, Bored to Death, and here’s a fresh new behind-the-scenes trailer, complete with a funny guest turn by Sarah Silverman. Other guests new and returning include Dick Cavett, John Hodgman, Chris …
It’s not even the start of the fall 2011 TV season, and already the networks have been busy buying pitches and signing up talent to development deals — but NBC went the extra step this week and agreed to a “put pilot” commitment with Sarah Silverman for her semi-autobiographical sitcom. …
A lot of big names in comedy familiar to past editions of the New York Comedy Festival will be returning to headline the 2011 edition this coming November. Louis C.K., Tracy Morgan, Sarah Silverman, Ricky Gervais, Bill Maher, Wanda Sykes, Russell Peters, Kathy Griffin and Norm Macdonald are among the …
If you want to attain a more natural high, just go back in time and remember when you and your favorite comedians were younger, back before they were famous. First up, Sarah Silverman shares with us this photo that shows her and her pals, circa 1993: Todd Barry, Janeane Garofalo, …
So here it is, my friends. Pilot Season is back where audiences can actually relive the magic of the mockumentary that looked at how various relationships unfolded in show business during the actual "pilot season," starring Sam Seder, Sarah Silverman, H. Jon Benjamin, Isla Fisher, David Cross and Andy Dick, …
Say the word "Trio" and you'll think of many things (but probably not about the short-lived cable network), which is why when I tell you about "Pilot Season," you'll maybe think of a real thing that happens in Hollywood each winter/spring, but you're not likely to think of the documentary …
