The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Jimmy Fallon has taken over The Tonight Show this week. What better time to reminisce about Johnny Carson, right? Right. Welcome to “The Carson Podcast,” hosted by Mark Malkoff. Malkoff made his mark online over the past several years by doing things you didn’t dare dream — living in an …
The official NBC Last Comic Standing website is still a few days away from making the leap from 2010 to present-day 2014. But the email line is open now if you want Last Comic‘s producers to consider you for an on-air callback audition! That is, if Gmail is working today… …
A friend asked me on New Year’s Day if I’d heard the joke Natasha Leggero had made on live TV the night before, and I thought, what joke and who cares. No, really. Isn’t that why NBC hired Leggero — along with Jane Lynch and Anthony Anderson — to stand …
Taylor Williamson modified his Twitter bio @TaylorComedy this summer to read: “I’m going to lose on America’s Got Talent.” A few months later, summer ends this week, and Williamson finds himself in the final six on NBC’s “AGT” – performing live tonight from Radio City Music Hall and learning Wednesday …
So much happens anytime Katt Williams spends enough time in public where a camera — whether it’s a security camera, paparazzi or news crew — that it’s not worth your time to keep up on his every movement. Is Katt Williams under arrest? What for? Will the charges actually stick? …
Spend any time in the black-box theaters and back-room bars of New York City’s comedy scene, and you’ll undoubtedly see Mindy Tucker and her camera, documenting the action from just offstage. Spend any time with Tucker, and you’ll soon find yourself changing the social-media profile pictures you use to ones …
Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival just got that much more interesting, as FOX announced Wednesday that it had ordered The Short-Com Comedy Hour, with up to nine episodes airing next summer and showcasing stand-up comedians in four mini sitcoms (short-coms) per hour. “We are basically ripping open the traditional scripted comedy …
First they came for the auto workers, and we said nothing. Then they came for the stand-up comedians, and we said, “Wait, what?” You can’t replace a stand-up comedian with a robot! Or can you? Or can Heather Knight, a “social roboticist” at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh, who has …
Nate Bargatze had gotten bumped recently from Conan when the other segments ran long. This week, they brought him back and had him tape his stand-up comedy in advance, and made sure to fit it into the program last night. Among other things, you’ll learn how to deal with marriage, …
Marc Maron, This Has To Be Funny (Comedy Central Records) The liner notes by public radio darling Ira Glass could just as well serve as an apt review of Maron’s latest stand-up CD, “This Has To Be Funny,” but since most people don’t buy physical CDs anymore (or do they …
