When it comes to money matters, mixing things up with Donald Trump can be a costly proposition. This means that even making a bet with the real estate mogul and Celebrity Apprentice host can earn someone a court date and maybe even set the person back a couple million dollars. Not even if the bet was meant…
Subscriber Content Add content here that will only be visible to your subscribers. Well, anyone could have seen this coming: That Conan O’Brien will eventually blink in his staring contest with Robert Alexander Kaseberg, the man who accused him of stealing jokes from his Twitter and blog platforms and including them in an opening monologue…
Jay Leno knows a thing or two about the occupational hazards of a comedian’s work. In the provocative new book Comedy Under Attack: The Golden Age and the Headwinds, somebody said that stand-up comedy is “the most fun anyone can have with their clothes on.” At least until somebody else gets offended in which case…
Funnyman Jay Leno is back in court and we have seen this script before. Just last month, the Sikh religion found itself at the butt of Leno’s jokes and the Sikh faithful did not find the stuff amusing. So, early the next week, Randeep Dhillon, an Indian-American and a Sikh, filed a defamation lawsuit in…
Jimmy Kimmel is a star of late night TV and his star is still rising. Next up, he’ll be hosting the White House Correspondent’s Dinner in April. So, no one can doubt Kimmel’s high profile in pop culture. But as a comedian he also gets into cheeky territory with stuff that really gives people the…
The Comedy Store in Los Angeles is a legendary comedy club with a lot of proud history to it. And it is no stranger to rocky moments either, like its latest in-house brawl. In one word, the top management is at war with each other. Here’s what went down: In December 2009, comedian/actor Pauly Shore,…
For The Huffington Post (HuffPo) these days, it’s not easy being rich. This past April 12, barely two months after the influential news website was acquired by AOL in a celebrated $315 million deal, one of its former bloggers and union organizer Jonathan Tasini sued both HuffPo and AOL in federal court in Manhattan, seeking…
On Sunday, January 10, NBC made it official that it will cancel the 10 p.m. “Jay Leno Show” effective February 12, and move Leno over to an 11:35 p.m. time slot. For Conan O’Brien, NBC said it would offer the funnyman from Harvard the chance to move his “Tonight Show” back just a half hour…