The Definitive Guide to Comedy
What’s happening in the comedy world now… Stephen Colbert revealed he’ll have a cameo in the upcoming movie trilogy adaptation of The Hobbit. Or will he? Colbert teased his visit to the movie set in an interview running in November’s issue of Playboy. Chevy Chase was grumpy again on the …
Comedy Central won the battle for late-night viewers under 35 years old during the Republican and Democratic national conventions. Now they’re looking to take it to their “real” cable news competitors with a series of TV commercials that blast them while touting Comedy Central’s “Indecision 2012” coverage — with Jon …
Comedy Central is bringing back its “Night of Too Many Stars” benefit fund-raiser show for 2012, with Jon Stewart returning as host. The performance lineup so far includes Hannibal Buress, Bill Burr, Stephen Colbert, Tina Fey, Tracy Morgan, Amy Poehler and Seth Rogen — plus Bill O’Reilly from FOX News and Rage …
With late-night TV pretty much done for the year (everyone’s airing repeats or is pre-empted for holiday programming for next week’s final week of 2011), we can take a step back and see who’s doing well and who didn’t make it to year’s end. How your favorite late-night talk show …
Stephen Colbert’s Super Political Action Committee produced a new TV ad this month supporting the NBA owners during the pro hoops lockout, which already has prompted the cancellation of the first two weeks of the 2011-2012 season. On last night’s Colbert Report, Colbert said they bought ad time on the …
Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield — the Ben & Jerry of Ben & Jerry’s ice cream — stopped by Late Night with Jimmy Fallon again last night to talk up fair trade and allow Fallon to “flog his flavor” in his ongoing friendly competition with Stephen Colbert. Roll the clip. …
On last night’s episode of The Colbert Report, Stephen Colbert finally addressed the strange-but-true fact that Texas Gov. Rick Perry had poached Colbert’s Colbert Super PAC treasurer to work on the Republican’s presidential campaign. Plus, Colbert sang part of a classic 1980s ballad! And as he noted, he’d already given …
Wondering what Stephen Colbert’s “Colbert Super PAC” would do with its newfound political freedom of the press? Wonder no more. Colbert’s first Super PAC Ad hit the Iowa TV airwaves and YouTube today, timed for the Ames Straw Poll of presidential candidates for 2012. The ad, “Episode IV: A New Hope,” …
Last night's edition of The Colbert Report opened with stand-up comedian Kumail Nanjiani hiding under Stephen Colbert's desk as Colbert's secret Gitmo-style prisoner, Omar. Or is it Homer? That must have been weird, since he'd have to have been in there even before the audience arrived — unless they snuck …
For the 51st annual Grammy Awards, the Recording Academy went with a live, primetime announcement/mini-concert. But you want to know who got nominated, don't you? While putting American Idol's star judge Simon Cowell up for Record of the Year (he produced "Bleeding Love" for Leona Lewis along with Clive Davis …
