The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Finding a sincere, sit-down interview with David Letterman is about as rare as finding one with the late Johnny Carson. Which, if you follow Letterman’s career as closely as he has followed Carson’s, makes perfect sense. Almost. But this year, the Kennedy Center Honors have honored David Letterman — the …
Admission, from director Paul Weitz (he also wrote the screenplay with Karen Croner, based on the novel by Jean Hanff Korelitz), stars Tina Fey as a Princeton University admissions officer who — while visiting an alternative high school run by a former classmate (Paul Rudd) of hers — interviews a …
Each year’s return to award season reminds us how comedy and comedians all too often are overlooked, marginalized or otherwise different enough from other performing artists such that, heck, how can anyone win, really? For every victory or nomination at the Academy Awards for individual achievement — screenplays are often …
The biennial Night of Too Many Stars benefit, hosted by Jon Stewart and organized by Robert Smigel, has reached new heights in 2012 for Comedy Central and for raising money toward autism research. The benefit show premieres Oct. 21, 2012, on Comedy Central, with a live phone bank taking your …
What’s happening in the comedy world right now… ABC’s Jimmy Kimmel Live has booked Kimmel’s longtime idol, David Letterman, as a guest for the upcoming week of shows in Kimmel’s birthplace of Brooklyn, New York. JKL will tape a week of late-night shows there from Oct. 29 – Nov. 2. …
In case you missed it Sunday night, Comedy Central has put the entire half-hour special online of Between Two Ferns: A Fairytale of New York. It’s “Between Two Ferns” as you love it, but as you’ve never seen it before. Imagine one of those silly Barbara Walters pre-Oscars interview specials, …
NBC let 30 Rock go meta last night, as its second time doing double-duty live shows (one for the Eastern and Central time zones, and one for the West Coast) found the fake show-within-a-show debating the merits of continuing with live shows for TGS. That allowed Kenneth the NBC Page …
In case you don’t listen to the Comedy Bang! Bang! podcast as soon as Earwolf releases a new one to you hounds, then here’s the news as delivered by Scott Aukerman in the third-year finale of CBB: Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis is going a full half-hour! On TV! …
The ascension of Louis CK as America’s top comedian continues as he won the Grammy this year for Best Comedy Album for “Hilarious,” which debuted as a feature film at Sundance in January 2010 but only came out in CD form in January 2011. If for some unknown reason, you …
It’s December 2011, and just like Jimmy Fallon and Saturday Night Live had predicted many years ago, Fallon is back as the host. Fallon has returned a couple of times previously in cameos to join Justin Timberlake in the Barry Gibb Talk Show sketches, but this is different. For one …
