The other day, Mel Brooks sat down with director/writer Judd Apatow for an intimate Q&A session with a live audience as part of SiriusXM’s “Town Hall” series. Featured on the limited-run channel “Mel Brooks Radio,” (which launched this weekend) the session was an in... [Read More]

Is the world ready for Mel Brooks to join the Twitter conversation? Ready or not, here comes @MelBrooks later today in an event coordinated for Comedy Central's first-ever online #ComedyFest -- that starts today and continues through May 3, 2013 -- w... [Read More]

The Paley Center for Media, which has locations in both New York and LA, dedicates itself to the preservation of television and radio history. Inside their vast archives of more than 120,000 television shows, commercials, and radio programs, there are thousands of important and funny programs waitin... [Read More]

Carl Reiner has always been good in support. He was fantastic jumping along with Sid Caesar and Howard Morris as “The Three Haircuts” on Your Show of Shows. He was the quintessential straight man to Mel Brooks’s 2000 Year Old Man. He created and produced a hit sitcom based on his own experiences, an... [Read More]

Want to know how much comedy is having a renaissance? This January, Vanity Fair will dedicate an entire issue of it’s magazine for the first time to funny people and funny things. Also, it enlisted Judd Apatow to be its guest editor for the issue. Everyone from Conan O’Brien, Sarah Silverman, ... [Read More]

David Steinberg's latest comedian interview show -- with Steve Carell on-board with him as a fellow executive producer -- has a new name, Inside Comedy, and a debut date on Showtime (Jan. 26, 2012). With ten, half-hour episodes, the series will have ... [Read More]

It’s finally happening, folks. We first heard Steve Carell and David Steinberg were working on a documentary about comedians way back in December of last year. Three months ago we found out that Showtime had picked up the project, called Laughi... [Read More]

On Sept. 9, 2011, HBO will broadcast a comedy special pairing Mel Brooks with Dick Cavett in conversation, but in this clip, we see that Carl Reiner is there, too, and they'll be talking about the classic bit Reiner and Brooks used to do about a 2000... [Read More]

Originally a four-week special on Sirius XM Radio’s Raw Dog Comedy channel, Come To Papa adopts the channel for a weekly program tipping off July 29 at 6 pm EST. During its limited run, host and comedian Tom Papa interviewed the likes of Jerry Seinfeld, Colin Quinn, Nick DiPaolo and Rob Zombie. The series kicks off with the incomparable Carl Reiner, during which the two will discuss Reiner’s past and current projects such as the Oceans franchise, The Dick Van Dyke Show and Your Show of Shows an... [Read More]

Steve Carell and David Steinberg are working on a documentary chronicling the evolution of comedy over the past 60 years. So far, they've talked to "veterans Carl Reiner, Mel Brooks, Lily Tomlin, Don Rickles, and Carol Burnett, trendsetters Jerry Seinfeld, Ellen DeGeneres, Judd Apatow and Robin Williams, more recent stars Sarah Silverman, Chris Rock, Jane Lynch, and Tina Fey [Read More]