The Definitive Guide to Comedy
NBC decided over the summer to change up the cast of 2011-2012 midseason replacement Are You There Vodka, It’s Me Chelsea, and the newest beneficiary of those cast changes is stand-up comedian Ali Wong, just hired to play “Chelsea Handler’s” (Laura Prepon) best friend on the sitcom. Wong’s character, Bianca, …
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. …
First Dane Cook, now Doug Stanhope?!?! Louis CK is bringing in some big comedy guns for season two of his groundbreaking cinema verite TV series, Louie. From the title of this clip, it’d appear that Stanhope, unlike Cook, is not playing himself, but rather CK’s “old friend,” “Eddie.” Although he …
Lucille Ball would have turned 100 on Saturday, Aug. 6. To celebrate her legacy, LIFE magazine at life.com has posted a gallery of never-before-published photographs of the comedienne. In this 1958 photo by Leonard McCombe for TIME & LIFE Pictures, we see Desi Arnaz and Lucille Ball posing in front …
After all of these years of people and comedians speculating about whether Dane Cook stole jokes from Louis CK, or whether the two comedians were secretly or publicly feuding about said allegation, we finally get to see Louis CK and Dane Cook sit down in a room together for a …
