To say comedy -- especially stand-up comedy -- is a rough, mostly thankless business, would be a severe understatement. Any comedian, even the hugely popular ones, will tell you they've experienced many more embarrassing failures than they have had unmitigated successes. Great...
Last weekend news broke that Jimmy Fallon would replace Jay Leno in 2014 as host of The Tonight Show and that NBC would make the announcement as early as May. Although the network denied the story in the Hollywood Reporter, who cited “two high-level industry insiders” and...
Tom Cotter, the New York City-based comedian, whose life as a father of twins and husband of fellow comedian Kerri Louise was chronicled years ago on the reality show Two Funny, snagged second place on America's Got Talent tonight. Season seven of the Simon Cowell-created...
It's hard out there for a comic-- at least on NBC's talent show, America's Got Talent. On a show with sword swallowers and child opera singers, comedians, historically do not last long. (Melissa Villasenor made the semi-finals last year; Doogie Horner & Chips Cooney were only...
This morning, NBC announced that longtime radio host and purveyor of comedy Howard Stern would replace Piers Morgan as one of the judge's on its reality competition show America's Got Talent. Stern, of course, confirmed the news by chatting at length about the announcement this...
If you’ve been listening to the Howard Stern Show – or even reading mainstream reports – you know that there’s been this rumor going around that the longtime radio host is in talks to replace Piers Morgan as a judge on NBC's reality competition series America’s Got...
It's been said many times over, but comedy is subjective. What makes one person laugh is almost assuredly different from what makes another person laugh. However, the debate intensifies, despite subjectivity being the main force at work here, what makes millions of people laugh...
While it's great that comedians are getting appreciated on America's Got Talent, hearing Piers Morgan call J. Chris Newberg's peformance "startlingly inappropriate" and Sharon Osbourne comment that his song was "just so, so wrong" is more than slightly obtuse (see video below)....
America’s Got Talent reminds me of a coliseum in Ancient Rome, where the entire bloodthirsty audience was in attendance to see some grisly death by tiger or rhinoceros or whatever other beast happened to live in Italy at the time. They’re out for blood, not for a solid...
