Tom Shales

No Women Featured in NY Comedy Festival! No Joke!

Beverly Wettenstein | Posted 10.15.2009 | Entertainment


Beverly Wettenstein

The Primetime Emmy Awards showed that women writers on a comedy or variety series are a rare and endangered species. Only seven of the 81 writers were women.

Tom Shales Is So Right, Beautiful Women Are Terrible At Comedy

Alex Leo | Posted 11.08.2009 | Comedy


Alex Leo

As a woman in comedy, I understood his point: Being "classically pretty" works against you. Maybe "Saturday Night Live" will pay me double now that my goitre is almost the size of my head.

Dear Saturday Night Live, Hire Justin Timberlake!

Etan Bednarsh | Posted 01.10.2009 | Entertainment


Etan Bednarsh

Anyone who has seen him with the cast can tell that on a level of pure enjoyment and fulfillment, a part of Justin Timberlake wants to be performing in comedy sketches.