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Branford Marsalis on His Brief Time as an Angeleno Playing The Tonight Show

New Orleans-born saxophonist Branford Marsalis has been a household name since the early 1980s. Alongside his younger brother Wynton, he set the jazz world ablaze, earning his stripes on the bandstand with Art Blakey. From there, he found work in pop music (the Grateful Dead, Sting) and acting (Thro ... More >>

Laugh Your Way to 2013

Obama's Return To L.A. Today For Jay Leno Prompts Traffic Warning

President Obama is back, baby. And we're not just talking about winning the last two presidential debates after choking in the first one. No, the POTUS is back in L.A. this afternoon for the taping of the The Tonight Show With Jay Leno. And you know what that means? Traffic:

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 >>

Found Footage

Adult Swim's Eagleheart with Chris Elliott: An Inside Look at the Second Season

Also check out L.A. Weekly's interview with Chris Elliott from the first season of Eagleheart. On a blazing hot day last September, the cast and crew of Adult Swim series Eagleheart were holed up inside a small stage tucked deep within the eastern San Fernando Valley. They were nearing the end of ... More >>

Seth & Ed's Puppet Show

John Hodgman

Martha Stewart Says Women Should Pay the Dinner Bill on Valentine's Day

You don't expect your boyfriend to start sentences with "Well, Martha Stewart says..." but this Valentine's Day, he just might. On tomorrow's episode of The Martha Stewart Show, which features Seth Meyers, the SNL star learns that women are expected to uphold one major responsibility on the big nig ... More >>

The Annual All-New One-Time-Only New Year's Eve Revue

George Lopez Canceled After Less Than a Year of Following Conan O'Brien Late Night on TBS

Lopez, last night.​Updated at the bottom with a statement from TBS. First posted at 12:27 p.m. They say that Latinos are "the help," but this is ridiculous. After Conan O'Brien took over George Lopez's slot on TBS in November, the move was spun as a comedy all-star package, with Lopez coming ... More >>

He's Mighty Mighty

An Evening with Max Weinberg

Arnold Love Child Jokes: Jay Leno vs. Conan [Video]

NBCJay Leno gave it to his pal.​Arnold Schwarzenegger's revelation that he fathered a child out of wedlock 10 or so years ago was a present to America's L.A.-based late-night talk shows. In fact the muscle-man actor has been giving steadily to the cause of monologia since 2003, when he elbowe ... More >>

How to Make an Omelet: Martha Stewart and Craig Ferguson Crack Some Eggs

Craig Ferguson in a toque. Martha Stewart with a spatula. What more could you possibly want? Thanks to Grub Street for this one, in which Stewart shows the host of the Late Late Show how to make a fluffy French omelet ("It's like a rabbit," observes Ferguson) with eggs from her Connecticut farm, and ... More >>

CHICKS WHO INK (HBO DEALS)

Daily Show Mocks Missile Mystery

The Daily Show -- which watches cable news so you don't have to -- takes a crack at the overreaction to the "mystery missile" story. For those who didn't get the memo, it turned out to be a plane. Enjoy. The Daily Show With Jon StewartMon - Thurs 11p / 10cMissile: Impossiblewww.thedailyshow.comDail ... More >>

BEST ICE PICK OF THE WEEK

LOVERS AND OTHER DAILY SHOW CORRESPONDENTS

Catch a Risen Star

THE STRAIGHT MAN COMETH

Wolfgang Puck on the Craig Ferguson Show: Safety Goggles, Raw Duck Edible Underware

With the opening of his latest restaurant WP24, Wolfgang Puck ("it's not water and power") has been making the rounds, well, even more than usual. The other night Puck was on The Late Late Show With Craig Ferguson, and the combination of accents (Austrian for Puck, Scottish for Ferguson) and silly h ... More >>

Harvey Karp, M.D.: Happy Baby Daddy

Jay Leno Makes Ribs Mayor, L.A. Council Over Arizona Boycott

​During his Tonight Show monologue Thursday, Jay Leno made fun of the Los Angeles City Council's vote to boycott Arizona over the state's controversial immigration law. "The council vote wasn't even close," he said. "The council voted trece to uno." Then Leno aimed his chin at Mayor Antonio ... More >>

Over the Weekend: Hole, Air Guitar and Conan O'Brien

Yeah, you may still be trying to recover from Coachella, but there was a little too much going on this weekend to be housebound. Courtney Love and Conan O'Brien both made their big returns to the L.A. stage and local air guitarists went head to head at the Troubadour to move one step closer to the c ... More >>

Conan Announces New Late-Night Show On TBS

​Conan O'Brien on Monday announced he's headed to cable network TBS for an 11 p.m. late-night show that will start in November. The move will bump George Lopez's own talk show to midnight. The move appears to confirm that the host will remain in Los Angeles, where he moved from New York for hi ... More >>

$40 Million For Conan To Leave NBC, States New Report

NBC​Forget $30 million: As Conan O'Brien is portrayed as the victim in his battle with NBC, his ratings are up, and fans are rallying around him, he could now get $40 million to walk away from his contract with the network, the Wall Street Journal reports. The deal would preclude him from ba ... More >>

Leno Headed Back To Old, Hour-Long Stomping Grounds Late-Night

NBCJay Leno.​Jay Leno has struck a deal to get his late-night hour back at 11:35 p.m. on NBC, a move that indicates Conan O'Brien is definitely off the line-up at NBC, according to a report at TMZ. The site states that Leno had been guaranteed an hour under his Jay Leno Show contract for the ... More >>

Exhibit on African-American History

Oprah Out (But How Will We Know What Books To Read?)

​Nikki Finke nailed it. Oprah Winfrey is signing off of her network show in 2011 to focus on her cable channel, the Oprah Winfrey Network (OWN), which is scheduled to debut in January of that year, it was announced Thursday. The speculation is that Winfrey will have a show similar to her bloc ... More >>

GUY TALK

Mud-Raking: News Stations Tout Mudslides That Never Come

Judging by local television news operations, yesterday's rains comprised a state of emergency. For three days all local news stations led with this story: The first rainstorm of the season could cause disastrous mudslides in the foothills below fire-ravaged sections of the Angeles National Forest. M ... More >>

Animal Rights Group Targets 'The Jay Leno Show'

Those pesky, and controversial, animal rights activists at People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (PETA) will dress up as chickens and attempt to protest a taping of The Jay Leno Show tomorrow in Burbank, City News Service reports. Talk show host Jay Leno​PETA's peeved at Leno for shilling fo ... More >>

AMATEURS! YOU'RE ALL A BUNCH OF AMATEURS!

Life is Good for Seacrest, MGM, Letterman and WME

But for Conan? Not So Much.

Ed McMahon: Where the Sidekick Ends

Ed McMahon, who died today at the age of 86, had the least enviable job in comedy, that of a television host's sidekick. Playing Dr. Watson to Johnny Carson's Sherlock Holmes, McMahon was both a reliable patsy and convincing straight man -- the clown who brought a bumbling bonhomie to the Tonight Sh ... More >>

COMEDY WRITERS ON THE LOOSE!

LA Flashback: June, 1991, When Mozmania Swept the Southland

Request Video Morrissey Soundcheck Pacific Amphitheatre, June 1, 1991 (music starts near the 4:30 mark) Request Video Morrissey Soundcheck Pacific Amphitheatre, June 1, 1991 It was June of 1991 when Mozmania swept through the Los Angeles area. Kill Uncle had recently been released and while tha ... More >>

Greg Proops: Where It's Chat

Behind the Talents of Stormy Weather and Bridezilla Strikes Back!

Touched by Oprah: The divine ascents of Cynthia Silver and Linda Twine

Sacreligulous: Bill Maher's Cross to Bear

Bile and blasphemy from HBO's Real Time host

Unamerican Activity

Kathy Griffin's Kodak Moment

A Q&A with the former D-lister

Un-a-Frey-ed of the Truth

Free James Frey!

In defense of the post-truth memoir

Monkeys and Marionettes

Stewart vs. Crossfire and other comic battles

Does Mr. Middle-of-the-Road Lean Left?

Jay Leno talks about the tragedy and comedy of politics

Oprah as Opera

Mikel Rouse's music of the anti-media

The Green Monster

Tom Green, from the great wild North; plus, Dick and Paula, and Joe Bonanno