Before Better Call Saul. Before Breaking Bad. Before Mr. Show with Bob and David, and even before Saturday Night Live, Bob Odenkirk worked at The Second City in Chicago. While there, he performed and helped write Chris Farley’s iconic mo…
Continue ReadingJohn Marshall, a comedian and writer who earned an Emmy nomination for writing on HBO’s The Chris Rock Show, and who executive-produced multiple annual ceremonies for the Writers Guild Awards, has died from cancer. Raised in Sleepy Hollow, N.Y., M…
Continue ReadingBefore Better Call Saul. Before Breaking Bad. Before Mr. Show with Bob and David, and even before Saturday Night Live, Bob Odenkirk worked at The Second City in Chicago. While there, he performed and helped write Chris Farley’s iconic motivationa…
Continue ReadingIn case you needed another reason to share your funny take on surviving the coronavirus pandemic, here comes CBS with the announcement that it’ll broadcast an hour (or 44 minutes minus ads) of said videos this May. Cedric the Entertainer, who cur…
Continue ReadingIt was only a matter of time, wasn’t it? After a month of self-quarantining by comedians nationwide, stand-up Ted Alexandro has emerged as perhaps the first to put out a special from it. Alexandro edited together footage from his daily #TeddyGram…
Continue ReadingIt was only a matter of time, wasn’t it? After a month of self-quarantining by comedians nationwide, stand-up Ted Alexandro has emerged as perhaps the first to put out a special from it. Alexandro edited together footage from his daily #TeddyGrams on I…
Continue ReadingDan Whitney had a pretty good comedy career, including a TV appearance on A&E’s An Evening At The Improv. But Whitney’s career as Larry the Cable Guy has been far more lucrative and longer-lasting, going on some three decades since he first started…
Continue ReadingIn 2003, I reported on entertainment and other general assignments on staff for The Arizona Republic and hung out most weekends at the Tempe Improv, where I sometimes hosted for the touring headliners. Meanwhile, another sometimes couple of emcees from…
Continue ReadingAmy Schumer and her award-winning cookbook husband have cooked up a Food Network TV series from home during quarantine from the coronavirus pandemic. Amy Schumer Learns to Cook (working title) began production this week inside the home the comedian sha…
Continue ReadingSaul Turteltaub, an Emmy-nominated writer/producer who teamed up with Bernie Orenstein on several hit sitcoms from the 1960s through the 1990s, has died. Turtletaub was 87. He died April 9 at his home in Beverly Hills of natural causes. Born and raised…
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