Late Show with David Letterman

B.J. Novak Tells Us About His New Book, Which He's Been Previewing for UCB Audiences

Eight years ago at a comedy show in Los Feliz, B.J. Novak took the mike and regaled the crowd with a jaw dropping story: As a tween, he had a personal encounter with Michael Jackson. The theme of the night entailed comedians' run-ins with celebrities, and before the crowd's imagination could assum ... More >>

No Age Makes a Record for an Era When Records Don't Matter

Fred Stoller, Professional TV Guest Star

In the foreword to Fred Stoller's new memoir, Maybe We'll Have You Back: The Life of a Perennial TV Guest Star, Ray Romano recalls being referred to in his early New York stand-up days as "the healthy-looking Fred Stoller." Romano went on to star in his own show and become a household name. Stoller ... More >>

The Best TV Writer Panel Ever?

When the invitation went out from the Writers Guild of America, It seemed too good to be true. Norman Lear, Carl Reiner, James L. Books, Steven Bochco, and more, all on the same panel? And yet last night at the WGA Theater in Beverly Hills, to celebrate the organization's 101 Best Written TV Series ... More >>

Elayne Boosler: Laughs for Lassie

One of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2013 issue. Check out our entire People 2013 issue here. "Doesn't she look like Audrey Hepburn?" asks Elayne Boosler of Jazzy, a visiting pit bull–Weimaraner mix. Boosler does an impression of Jazzy as Hepburn, playing off the w ... More >>

How a USC Film Student Tried to Get Bill Murray to Star in His Film -- By Creating a Bill Murray Holiday

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage *Our Bill Murray Appreciation Day Slideshow *Our Report on Bill Murray Appreciation Day Christopher Guerrero, a 27-year-old USC grad student, wrote one of the main roles in his thesis film for actor Bill Murray. The problem is what it always is: Actually ge ... More >>

Charlie Sheen Is Winning with Inside the Mind of Charles Swan III

Sheen's new film, made with childhood friend Roman Coppola, was his first acting gig after his notorious meltdown

Comedian Cash Levy Explains His Odd Path to Stand-up Success

See also: *5 Best Comedy Shows in L.A. This Week *10 Best Stand-Up Comedy Shows in Los Angeles It's around 11 a.m. on a Wednesday as Cash Levy enters a banquet room within the pleasant, faux-sylvan Etiwanda Gardens event center near Rancho Cucamonga. Sixty employees of a major Southern California u ... More >>

Chris Elliott Just Wrote His Own Unauthorized Autobiography

You may know Chris Elliott for his hilarious characters on Late Night With David Letterman or from Get a Life and a whole bunch of movies, but he's also a prolific author, whose new book is called The Guy Under the Sheets: The Unauthorized Autobiography. He's in town for Live Talks Los Angeles's "An ... More >>

Best Sit-Down With Two Comic Geniuses

Found Footage

Emily V. Gordon and Kumail Nanjiani: Nerds of a Feather

Two of the fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People 2012 issue. Check out our entire People 2012 issue here. When Kumail Nanjiani was 18, he came halfway around the world from Karachi, Pakistan, to one of the whitest places on Earth, Grinnell College in Iowa. Appropriately, at 34, he' ... More >>

K-pop Till You Drop: The Skinny on the Korean Boy and Girl Groups That Get Major Play in Koreatown

Story by Tiffanie Lee K-pop has become a worldwide phenomenon, and one of its great hubs is Los Angeles. Walk into any Koreatown club, dive, noraebang (karaoke bar) or, hell, even a bakery, and you'll hear the genre's famous slick jams and infectious dance beats. Importing elements of American R&B ... More >>

Conan O'Brien ('s Writing Staff) Kicks Off Everything Is Festival at Cinefamily

The kids you made fun of in high school: All grown up, and richer than you.​ When you hear the name Conan O'Brien, you probably picture the man who single-handedly rallied America's youth against Jay Leno, revenge after Leno took back the Tonight Show gig that, only nine months earlier, he'd l ... More >>

Found Footage Festival: Back to the Future

One man's trash is another's beloved time capsule

Chris Elliott on His New Show Eagleheart and the Cult Classic Get a Life

In Eagleheart, which premieres tonight on Adult Swim, Chris Elliott plays Chris Monsanto, a U.S. Marshal whose combination of ineptitude and confidence leads to more disasters than you thought could fit into a twelve-minute episode. If you're familiar with Elliott's work over the years, then this tu ... More >>

Story of His Life

M.I.A. Performs "Born Free" With Clones and Suicide on Letterman

M.I.A. Performs "Born Free" With Clones and Suicide on Letterman

Pee-Wee's Big Comeback

18 years after a bruising fall, Paul Reubens returns to an L.A. stage

Not the Usual Haunts

When Bad Things Happen to Funny People

Doug Stanhope, Elayne Boosler, Merrill Markoe and other standups on the pitfalls of comedy

Dark Knight, Late-Night Wars and More: What a Bunch of Jokers:

But for some in Hollywood, the joke's on them

Sinking Globes, Rising Cruise, and Winning Blus

Miss a week of Deadline Hollywood Daily? Here’s your fix!

Theater Reviews

Including Billy Connolly Live, The Return of Brother Theodore and this week's pick, Atonement

Petting the Koala

Audiences just want to cuddle enigmatic Mitch Hedberg

Coming from all over

American Splendors

Kevin Costner and Harvey Pekar deliver the goods

Is That Edward Gorey in Your Pocket or Are You Just Happy to Seam Me?

Edited by Kateri Butler

Smut Factory

The corruption of the American television critic

Good News About the New Season

Seriously

Too Good and Weird

The Happy Life and Inevitable Death of Freaks and Geeks

Season’s Cretins

Three plays for solo performer