The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The 2008 Creative Arts Emmy Awards got handed out over the weekend (telecast airs Sept. 20 on E!), and here are your TV comedy winners this year in the technical categories as well as the special one-time only categories that won’t make the main Emmys telecast on Sept. 21. 30 …
The 2008 San Francisco Comedy Competition began the first of two preliminary weeks on Wednesday. Comedians begin in groups, performing six shows in six cities across Northern California in five nights! Each comic gets 5-7 minutes in the prelims. The top five of 16 in each group advance to a …
Is America ready for a fully realized Tony Clifton performance? I’m not sure. Because what I witnessed earlier this week in New York City completely blew my mind away. Three and a half hours. Twenty-two songs! Really. Let me tell you upfront that this is not the Tony Clifton you …
TBS announced today it has ordered a third season of The Bill Engvall Show, with 10 new episodes expected to air in summer 2009. The show averaged 2.3 million viewers this year. They cannot all be wrong, can they? In fact, network programmer Michael Wright said "there’s something about this …
Chicago comedy blog The Bastion unleashed a flurry of posts today, then followed that up with an announcement that it was closing up shop. What gives?! We hardly knew ye! Good luck to Elizabeth and Kristy on their future projects, and to everyone else in the Chicago comedy community, too. …
If Ellen can do it, and Rosie could do it, then why can’t Bonnie Hunt bring her witty skills to daytime TV? Eggsactly. So The Bonnie Hunt Show debuts on Monday, Sept. 8. She’s got her own YouTube channel with short promos for the talker. Though Hunt hails from Chicago …
Does your comedy show include videos, songs, soundtracks, lights, or any kind of a set? Then perhaps you might want to consider how that all will work smoothly and not get in the way of the funny. If you have attended a show at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in …
The Friars Club’s So You Think You Can Roast? contest tonight with a wild card audition today at Carolines. Voting continues online for the second round roast of George Takei. Future roasts will have hopeful comedians taking shots at Omarosa (Sept. 22) and Gary Dell’Abate (Oct. 6), competing for a …
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My friends at The Apiary provide a clever defense today of Carlos Mencia (really? really) by whipping out this handy "Universal Comedy Flowchart" and suggesting that instead of stealing jokes (wink-a-wink-a), Mencia merely is raking his mind over the handy dandy chart that unlocks the secrets of comedy. The chart …