In the two days before 9/11/01, George Carlin was performing in Las Vegas and did a routine about how much he liked it when a lot of people die. It was supposed to be part of an HBO special to be broadcast live that November, but after the attacks on America, that bit wasn’t released […]
The first time I saw Bobcat Goldthwait onstage was 30 years ago, when he was taking a shower in front of 10,000 people at the Universal Amphitheater in LA during the first Comic Relief show. The last time I saw him was a couple of years ago at the Funny Bone comedy club in Valley […]
Here’s my conversation with comedian-actor Kevin Nealon, who spent almost a decade on “Saturday Night Live,” co-starred on Showtime’s “Weeds” for 8 seasons, and appeared in more than two dozen movie comedies, including “The Wedding Singer,” “Anger Management,” “Daddy Day Care,” “Happy Gilmore,” “Walk Of Shame,” and “Roxanne.” He’s also done two hourlong standup specials […]
I have lost track of how many times Carl Reiner has appeared on my show, but it’s been an annual event for many years, as he keeps cranking out books about his remarkable show business life. This visit was to talk about his newest, “Why and When The Dick Van Dyke Show Was Born.” We […]
What do “Laverne and Shirley,” “Mork and Mindy,” “Taxi,” “Cheers,” “Newhart,” “Night Court,” “Home Improvement,” and “Friends” have in common? Yes, they were all sitcoms, but they also all had Bob Perlow as their audience warmup guy. He’s written about his career in the TV comedy bleachers in a new book, “The Warmup Guy,” and […]
Comedian George Wallace stopped by the studio today and we had a great time, with a free-flowing conversation that had me laughing all the way through.