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Someone told Woody Allen that all of these bad headlines surrounding Bill Cosby meant it was a good time to come back out into the spotlight? Amazon Studios today announced a deal with Allen for a full season of Untitled Woody Allen Project, a half-hour series and Allen’s first, which he’ll write …
This May, in celebrating Don Rickles on his 88th birthday, Jerry Seinfeld said of his elder hero: “”On the Mount Rushmore of stand-up comedy, there are four faces, in my opinion: Richard Pryor, George Carlin, Bill Cosby and Don Rickles.” This weekend, following the death of Joan Rivers at 81, Chris …
Sid Caesar, TV’s sketch comedy pioneer, died on Wednesday in his Beverly Hills home. He was 91. Born in Yonkers, N.Y., Caesar began to make his mark at the dawn of our network television age, landing his own show in 1948 with the Admiral Broadway Revue. But it was Your …
They don’t make resumes like they used to. Picture this. It’s 1965. You’re in the position to hire a young comedian. I know, I know. You must be old by now if you could hire a kid way back in 1965, but try not to think about that right now. …
Is 2013 the year that every famous comedian decided to get back into stand-up, or does it just seem that way? There’s definitely something in the water enticing them all to wade back into the scene. Just in the past couple of weeks, we’ve heard word of the first stand-up …
At 86, the Canadian-born Mort Sahl shows no signs of stopping his satirical look upon and obsession with American politics. Sahl put on three late-night shows last week at New York City’s Café Carlyle, opening his stand-up performances with an updated plea: “God bless Barack Obama, long may he waver.” …
Happy news for comedy fans this morning as the Academy Awards, 84th annual edition, bestowed nominations to some of your favorite comedians and funny films of 2011. And that’s not counting some of the more lighthearted fare receiving serious recognition, too (looking at you, The Artist, Jonah Hill in Moneyball, …
Robert Weide achieved unprecedented access to Woody Allen over the past couple of years, and with it, produced this fantastic documentary about the 75-year-old (he turns 76 on Dec. 1) comedian-filmmaker’s life. So much footage from rare interviews with him from decades ago that you probably never saw nor remembered, …
