The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Two months ago, Stephen Colbert addressed Colbert Nation on Comedy Central’s The Colbert Report and asked them to vote him a People’s Choice Award. Lo and behold, it worked! Colbert won the People’s Choice Award on Wednesday night’s telecast as Favorite Late-Night Talk Show Host. Here he is, via remote, …
Stephen Colbert may have won two Emmy Awards this year, and he was quick to remind us of this on Thursday night’s episode of The Colbert Report. But Colbert has his sights on a new prize, the “crystal vagina” that is the People’s Choice Award. In a segment called “Who …
Want more Breaking Bad? So does Stephen Colbert. At the end of Monday night’s The Colbert Report on Comedy Central, Colbert jokingly revealed he had locked guest Vince Gilligan, Breaking Bad‘s creator and series finale writer/director, in chains in a basement under the studio, forcing him to write additional storylines. …
Tina Fey and Tracey Wigfield did not win the Emmy this year for Outstanding Original Music and Lyrics, but the 30 Rock finale episode they wrote (“Last Lunch”) that included the “Rural Juror” song did win for Outstanding Writing for a Comedy Series, so that’s got to count for something. …
What’s happening in the comedy world these days… Johnny Carson is coming back to your TVs in primetime, with Conan O’Brien hosting The Tonight Show once more? Yes, yes, and here’s why and how: A remix of classic interviews called Carson on TCM bows Monday nights this summer, starting July …
Stephen Colbert started his Wednesday night episode of The Colbert Report with news about his sister. He had to. “Tonight, I am angry,” Colbert said. “And for once, that doesn’t make me happy.” Former South Carolina Gov. Mark Sanford, who resigned following revelations he had skipped office and skipped out …
Stephen Colbert plays “Stephen Colbert” on Comedy Central, and in doing so on The Colbert Report, he has pretended to be a conservative talking airhead while mocking same, and also used satire to poke holes in our political process by launching his own PAC during the 2012 election cycle. His …
Election Night always has marked memorable moments in my life; none more so than the first Tuesday in November four years ago. Sure, 2008 saw the United States of America elect the first president of mixed-race origin in our history. Wait. Hold up. Mixed-race? Aren’t we all mixed to at …
As the advancing winds and rain of Hurricane Sandy began hitting New York City and the Tri-State area on Monday, the storm forced the cancellation of many live comedy shows, Broadway productions, and TV tapings — among them, the first-ever Brooklyn taping for Jimmy Kimmel Live, as well as regularly …
The final presidential debate of the 2012 campaign ended at 11 p.m. Eastern time Monday in Boca Raton, Fla. Meanwhile, up the East Coast in New York City, the writing staffs of four late-night TV comedy/variety shows already were beginning to pitch hundreds upon hundreds of jokes, video mash-ups and …
