The Definitive Guide to Comedy
“Smile! You’re on Candid Camera!” Candid Camera is back once more, this time coming to TV Land with 10 episodes this summer. The cable network announced the pick-up today, in conjunction with Peter Funt’s Candid Camera, Inc., and Ben Silverman’s Electus production house. “A remake of Candid Camera is the …
You may have seen Rob Gleeson on TV before, in Showtime’s House of Lies or other sitcoms and commercials. But as Gleeson explained in this stand-up performance on Monday’s Conan, he had been living in his own house of lies until this past year, when he came out of the …
So what if you’re racially profiled at an art museum? As Byron Bowers explained on Thursday night’s episode of The Pete Holmes Show…perhaps there is a good reason for it. If you use your imagination. Speaking of art, Bowers also reminds us that most great artists have personal flaws. Is …
In this conversation on The Pete Holmes Show, Holmes recalls first meeting Rob Riggle at Comix (RIP), a comedy club in New York City. Back then, Riggle was a correspondent on The Daily Show, but also known more as an improviser or sketch comedy player than as a stand-up. Riggle …
Team Coco brought out the big guns for night one in Dallas, with favored stand-up comedian Tig Notaro gracing the big theater stage for Monday’s Conan. Notaro gives us much-needed perspective on fire trucks, diarrhea in the public pool, and how joking about your breasts might lead to breast cancer. …
Conan is a video game for the Xbox 360. CONAN360 is a video app that lets you twirl in and about the stage where Conan O’Brien, Andy Richter and Team Coco film Conan for TBS in Burbank, Calif., seeing it from all 360 degrees. Check it out! You also can …
Eliza Skinner lives and works in Los Angeles but used to do both of those things in New York City, and as she related on Wednesday night’s episode of The Pete Holmes Show, New Yorkers have a real open attitude about their distaste for L.A. Skinner also was engaged once …
George Lopez hadn’t visited Howard Stern’s SiriusXM morning radio show since before Stern had moved to satellite radio. In the nine years that had elapsed, Lopez had left behind a successful ABC sitcom; gotten a kidney transplant from his wife, whom he later divorced; launched a late-night talk show on …
Todd Barry returned to Conan on Monday night to perform stand-up and opened with some prepared material about a certain Walgreens in Chicago that deserves recognition. Even now. Even. Now. Then Barry took to the panel, where he talked with Conan O’Brien about his new crowd work special (produced and …
Here’s a standard element of late-night TV newly incorporated into The Pete Holmes Show on TBS, as Holmes welcomed stand-up comedy to the program Wednesday night in the form of his friend Jared Logan. Logan let us know about his relationship with his girlfriend and their mutual love of bed-and-breakfast …
