The Definitive Guide to Comedy
How many times have you opened up a Penthouse magazine and found a ventriloquist posing with her dummy? That’s among sentences I never thought I’d type. But there she is, my friend Carla Rhodes, posing with Cecil in the new issue of Penthouse that hits newsstands today. Enjoy!
Your TiVo or DVR is not playing tricks on you today. Gabe & Jenny’s favorite TV show, The Bill Engvall Show, will get a one-time airing tonight at 8 p.m. on the CBS television network. CBS and TBS made a marketing tit-for-tat shaky-shake deal, in which CBS plays an episode …
Comics Unleashed with Byron Allen, the late-night half-hour chat show for comedians that features the least actual chat of any TV show I know, will get two more seasons — or 260 episodes — to blatantly promote stand-up comedians. Which is ultimately still a good thing. Right? The series already …
Just because I won’t be there doesn’t mean you cannot decide to take in the special wonderment that is Brett Gelman’s "1,000 Cats," which he restages tonight at his weekly Gelmania showcase at Rififi in New York City’s East Village. Earlier: My review of Brett Gelman’s "1,000 Cats."
Hey, readers! I finally resolved my Internet issues here at the Comic Strip Live, still very tired, weary, a bit sweaty and about to embark on something that several people have suggested could not be done, while millions more are thinking should not be done. Can man live on laughter …
Bob Powers (day job: writer for 23/6; night job: author, comedian) is throwing a Happy Hour party and reading for the release of his new book, "You Are A Miserable Excuse For A Hero," tonight at Lolita Bar in Manhattan’s Lower East Side. It’s a choose-your-own-ending humor book, so several …
So I thought missing the 2008 MTV Movie Awards wouldn’t be that big of a deal, because MTV likes to replay its awards programmings around the clock, but that’s not how they roll anymore. Now, with, you know, the Internets, they realize you’re going to go online looking for what …
The Chicago Improv Festival would start on a somber note as the Chicago improv community learned that Paul Sills, a founding member and original director of Second City as well as its predecessor Compass Players (where he worked with Nichols and May), had died earlier today. Sills was 80. A …
The Bastion tells me, and therefore you, as well, that there’s plenty of talented comedians coming home to roost at the 11th annual Chicago Improv Festival, which begins tonight and runs through June 8. Chicago’s grand improvisational comedy tradition attracts a lineup that includes Paul Scheer and Jack McBrayer kicking …
This story from comedian Gregg Gethard about his adolescent TV appearance on Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego sounds like the kind of thing they’d love to talk about at the nationwide storytelling series, Mortified (next NYC show is June 2 at Comix!), even if Gethard’s own monthly Philadelphia …