The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Not since William Shatner’s spoken-word music album became nostalgically and ironically hip in the 1990s have I not known what to make of something like this, but here was Bill Murray, performing a medley of West Side Story tunes alongside his classical music friends on Thursday’s Late Show with Stephen …
In Tuesday night’s latest round of “Judge Cuts,” 23-year-old Daniel Ferguson sang impersonations of Marge Simpson, Gollum, and judge Howie Mandel’s Bobby cartoon. Was it enough to get him to the live shows, though? (no) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BaOZSFte4sw
Goddamn! The Goddamn Comedy Jam special proved successful enough this summer for Comedy Central to order up eight more episodes for cable TV in 2017 — even if they’re dropping the profanity from the title, and just calling it The Comedy Jam from here on out. “We have been working …
The hit Broadway musical Hamilton will hit peak cultural status this coming weekend with the Tony Awards, and New York City comedian Richie Moriarty pays tribute today with this video of him singing “Alexander Hamilton.” Only Moriarty does it via 14 different celebrity impersonations. Including Adam Sandler, JFK, Christopher Walken, Mickey Mouse, Beaker …
Leslie Goshko joins me in a special episode recorded live at QED in Astoria. She’s featured on a new episode of truTV’s Impractical Jokers, but there’s nothing impractical about going from teaching music and theater in Tulsa to the Broadway stage, at least the way she tells it. Goshko won a national …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
During Monday’s SXSW panel on “Creating the Shows That We Like,” Will Forte — co-creator and showrunner on the new FOX series he stars in, The Last Man on Earth — recounted an old, very NSFW bit he used to run with while a member of Los Angeles sketch group, …
Melissa Rauch stars in a raunchy new movie that premiered last month at the Sundance Film Festival. But the supporting player from CBS hit The Big Bang Theory and former VH1 Best Week Ever talking head revealed to Conan last night that she was prematurely raunchy. Sort of. Turns out …
Jon Lovitz is singing for his supper this summer. And he’s not pathologically lying about it this time. Nor is he ACTING! Lovitz is one of the competitors in ABC’s summer celebreality stunt, Sing Your Face Off, which debuts Saturday night with back-to-back episodes from 9 to 11 p.m. Eastern/Pacific. …
When you think of “The Star-Spangled Banner,” America’s national anthem, you may think of sporting events and patriotic occasions both celebratory and solemn. But you probably don’t think of comedians singing it. That doesn’t mean funny people cannot or could not have the musical chops and gravitas to pull it …
