The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Ray Romano, who owes his life on television to David Letterman, will host the CBS tribute to the reigning king of late-night TV on May 4, some 16 days before Letterman signs off one final time as host of the Late Show. David Letterman: A Life On Television will air …
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 …
LaughTrack’s Road To Stand-Up Stardom, from our Premiere Issue: March 1989. LaughTrack was like the Rolling Stone for comedy, handed out at almost every comedy club in the country during stand-up’s golden age. — Courtesy of LaughTrack’s Founding Editor/Editor-in-Chief, Rick Siegel Siegel told The Comic’s Comic that when LaughTrack launched …
Before he moved to Los Angeles and broke into TV, such as his current recurring role on the FX series Married, Brett Gelman was an improviser in New York City. One of his earliest big breaks came via the New York Lottery. No, he didn’t win it. He starred in …
For the first episode of their webseries chat show, “Let’s Talk About Something More Interesting,” Milana Vayntrub and Stevie Nelson sat down with comedy sketch group Good Neighbor in 2011. Vayntrub and Nelson asked the fellas — Beck Bennett, Kyle Mooney and Nick Rutherford — a bunch of questions regarding …
An employee at a doughnut shop, Stan’s Donuts in Chicago — you spell donuts, we spell doughnuts, let’s call the whole thing sticky sweet, from my head to my feet, yeah — claimed on reddit yesterday to pay respects to the late, great Mitch Hedberg by printing out Hedberg’s joke …
Keith Huang studied improvisation at The People’s Improv Theater and trained at New York City’s other two primary theatrical homes for improv comedy in the 21st century: The UCB and The Magnet. Huang later became an instructor at The PIT, house team performer there, and since 2012, served as The …
David Brenner died on March 15, 2014, from cancer. The comedian who logged more guest appearances than anyone else on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson was 78. Last April, Brenner sat down with Bill Boggs at 92Y in New York City for an hourlong look back at his life …
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 …
This picture has been making the Internet rounds again today, and since today is Thursday, let’s consider it #TBT and revisit the desk of Lorne Michaels at Saturday Night Live. This is how Michaels let his desk look for the December 2007 issue of Vanity Fair. How does it look …
