Stand-Up Comic TV Appearances: Tues, 3/30 – Sat, 4/3

Comedian television appearances include Drew Carey, Bill Maher, Whoopi Goldberg, Joy Behar, Wanda Sykes, Jo Koy, Whitney Cummings, The Sklar Brothers, Sarah Colonna and Lil JJ.

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Comedy Review: Artie Lange, Jack and Coke

CD REVIEW
Artie Lange: Jack and Coke
Rating: 3 stars (out of 5)

By Ryan P. Carey

Artie Lange recovers quickly from an off-putting intro of particularly mindless gay and dick jokes, almost as if he simply wanted to establish the mood for the evening with an opening pop from the frat-a-holic Howard Stern hordes on Jack and Coke. The rest of the album doesn’t exactly get wholesome by any stretch, but the hollowness gets replaced with a certain amount of humanity and realness as Lange shares his self-deprecating and skeptical point-of-view.

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Comedian Christian Finnegan to Co-Star in ‘Are We There Yet?’

Comedian Christian Finnegan has been cast in the upcoming TBS comedy, Are We There Yet?. The half-hour series is based on the 2005 hit movie that told the story of Nick (Ice Cube), a smooth operator who is trying to land a date with Suzanne (Nia Long), a divorcee stuck working out of town over New Year’s and miserable because she misses her kids. Nick gallantly offers to make her New Year’s wish come true and his own in the process by driving her two children to be reunited with their mom. What Nick doesn’t know is that Suzanne’s children, whom he’s never met, hate every man their mom dates on sight.

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‘Saturday Night Live’ Documentary to Debut in April

NBC presents a new installment of the behind-the-scenes documentary series chronicling the highs and lows of the iconic comedy show, Saturday Night Live. Saturday Night Live in the 2000s: Time And Again airs on Thursday, April 15 9:00-11:00pm ET/PT. Among the new and candid interviews are creator and executive producer Lorne Michaels, and many of the stars of the show including: Jimmy Fallon, Will Ferrell, Tina Fey, Will Forte, Bill Hader, Darrell Hammond, Tracy Morgan, Chris Parnell, Amy Poehler, Maya Rudolph, Andy Samberg, and Horatio Sanz. In addition, some of the most memorable hosts in SNL history – Alec Baldwin, Christopher Walken, Senator John McCain, and Justin Timberlake also offer insights.

Humor Column: The Urban Erma by Leighann Lord: It’s Official: My Dog Outranks Me

Proud Member of Rolie’s Army

By Leighann Lord

I read an article in The Wall Street Journal recently about First Sergeant Gunner, a Marine dog serving in Afghanistan and suffering from Canine Post Traumatic Stress Disorder. The poor pooch has been unfit for duty, unable to sniff out explosives, and reacting nervously to gunfire. The Marines haven’t given Gunner the Donald Trump treatment, trying instead to rehab him. I find it fascinating that: “The Marine Corps gives each dog a military rank, one notch above his handler’s, to reinforce the idea that the dogs deserve respect.” After reading this, I looked over at my dog and he looked at me as if to say, “I told you so.”

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Monoblogue by Neil Berliner: Lil Wayne’s Pain

By Neil Berliner

Lil Wayne has been sentenced to a year in jail. So it could be a real rough year for Lil Wayne’s Lil Bitty Lil Wayne.

Forty-eight percent of viewer indecency complaints filed with the FCC last year were against Fox programs. The other 52% of viewer indecency complaints filed with the FCC were against FOX programs.

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