Category Archives: Comedian

Leno’s ‘Tonight Show’ joke offends Sikh community

By doris | Published: January 26, 2012

Full Story at TheMarquee.Blogs.CNN.com Late night hosts are using everything they’ve got to poke fun at the Republican presidential candidate race, from Jimmy Fallon making campaign ad parodies to Jimmy Kimmel’s “A Charlie Brown GOP Debate.” But “The Tonight Show’s” Jay Leno might have gone too far for a few laughs. On January 19, the [...]

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Is “Work It’ worst TV show ever?

By doris | Published: January 6, 2012

Full Story at TheClicker.msnbc.msn.com It’s hard to remember a new TV show that earned such universally horrible reviews as ABC’s “Work It,” which premiered last night. The sitcom focuses on two unemployed men who dress up like women to find jobs. Stars Lee Standish and Amaury Nolasco may have to try that trick soon, because [...]

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David Letterman’s blackmailer gets new TV job

By doris | Published: December 31, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com NEW YORK — Robert “Joe” Halderman, the former CBS News producer who went to jail for trying to blackmail David Letterman, has secured a job at “On the Case with Paula Zahn,” a weekly news magazine on the Investigation Discovery Channel. TheWrap confirmed that Halderman has already started working with “On [...]

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‘Laugh-In’ player Alan Sues dies at 85

By doris | Published: December 3, 2011

Full Story at entertainment.msnbc.com Alan Sues, a flamboyant and wacky member of the comic ensemble that made “Rowan & Martin’s Laugh-In” a big hit for NBC in the late 1960s, died Thursday at his home in West Hollywood of an apparent heart attack. He was 85. Sues was a regular on the comedy-variety show from [...]

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Regis Philbin eyeing primetime TV variety show

By doris | Published: November 28, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com NEW YORK — After ending his run on ABC’s “Live! With Regis and Kelly,” Regis Philbin is aiming for a bigger primetime talent show geared to the whole family, he told the New York Post’s Page Six. Philbin, who hosted the first season of NBC’s “America’s Got Talent,” has formed RAF [...]

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Fall TV premiere week: The winners and losers

By doris | Published: September 29, 2011

Full Story at Fall TODAY.mnnbc.msn.com And they’re off! Which TV horses look strongest out of the gate and which might need to be put down. The winnersComedyAs the U.S. teeters on the precipice of a double-dip recession, laughter truly might be the best medicine. Ashton Kutcher’s Sept. 19 debut on CBS’ “Two and a Half [...]

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Dolores Hope, widow of Bob Hope, dead at 102

By doris | Published: September 20, 2011

Full Story at CNN.com LOS ANGELES (CNN) — Dolores Hope, the widow of actor-comedian Bob Hope, died of natural causes at her Los Angeles home Monday, her family said. She was 102. “I had such a huge admiration for both of them,” actress Julie Newmar said. “The quality it takes to get just one year [...]

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Jerry Lewis: MIA this Labor Day

By doris | Published: August 30, 2011

Full Story at TODAY.msnbc.msn.com NEW YORK — No one would sniff at all the dollars Jerry Lewis raised for muscular dystrophy: a couple of billion during his 45-year reign as host of the MDA Telethon. But what kind of TV did he offer in exchange? The short answer: Jerry put on a show like no [...]

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Jimmy Kimmel’s Uncle Frank dies

By doris | Published: August 23, 2011

Full Story at TheClicker.today.com There won’t be much laughter tonight. “It is with great sadness that the staff and crew of ‘Jimmy Kimmel Live!’ mourn the loss of ‘Uncle Frank’ Potenza,” ABC said in a statement. “Thank you for your kind words about a very kind man — my Uncle Frank — who passed away [...]

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Billy Crystal ‘itchy’ to host Oscars again

By doris | Published: August 21, 2011

Full Story at Scoop.today.com I’d have to review the tapes, but I might have made a remark during last year’s Oscar broadcast, commenting that the show had deteriorated so much, I actually missed Billy Crystal. I think I’d like to take that back, now that Crystal seems to be throwing his hat back in the [...]

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