MADtv News

Posted in Around Town , Comedy by Jason Heidemann on December 12th, 2009 at 5:47 pm Second City kicked off its weekend of panels, screenings and discussions this morning.

The Sprint Cup Series Awards Ceremony is coming to Las Vegas and Frank Caliendo is on the pole.

The Visalia Fox will host four December concerts, three of them full of Christmas music.

Caliendo provides surprisingly original takes on some familiar subjects, including sports celebrities and George W. Bush Leila Navidi Frank Caliendo uses facial expressions and gestures to portray his subjects, who keep interrupting him during his monologue.

MADtv veteran Aries Spears takes over the Stress Factory Friday and Saturday at 90 Church St., New Brunswick.

Impressionists tend to bill themselves as men of "1,000 Voices" or variations thereof.

Playwright leaps into world of seven-year-old Award-winning Extinction Song opens season for Eastern Front By ELISSA BARNARD Arts Reporter Sat.

"Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane's comedy special airs Nov. 8 at 8:30 ET/PT on FOX -- but you can see not one but TWO sneak peeks here.

When the mayor of a city is forced to resign after a corruption investigation, citizens would not likely be ready to support a recovering alcoholic and heroin addict to be his replacement, but one grassroots web campaign is seeking to accomplish just that result.

"What a beautiful family picture. Not everybody is matching or looking like they are all dressed by a stylist.

Sometimes life pushes us along a path we didn't intend to take. That happened to actress Nicole Sullivan twice.

Frank Caliendo snookered me. For a split second, I thought I was talking to President Obama.

MIKE WEATHERFORD MORE COLUMNS Preview Frank Caliendo 9:30 p.m. Mondays, Tuesdays, Fridays and Saturdays Lance Burton Theatre at the Monte Carlo, 3770 Las Vegas Blvd.

Meet Beckett Edward Packham! Rita Rocks star and MADtv alum Nicole Sullivan is known for delivering laughs.

The second episode of FlashForward puts us three days out from the mysterious worldwide blackout, when traffic is moving smoothly in Los Angeles, and the plot thickens around the creepy surveillance image of a single man awake in a Detroit stadium while the rest of the earth was out.

Artie Lange, the comedian who fought a well-publicized battle with drugs and alcohol, pleaded guilty Wednesday in Municipal Court to driving under the influence of a habit producing drug - sleeping pills, officials said.

Mad Men 's infamous foot-dicing secretary found another job! Crista Flanagan, who became a permanent part of Mad Men lore on Sunday when her character ran over an ad exec's foot with a lawn tractor, is joining ABC's new Kelsey Grammer sitcom, Hank .

There's a chance that Improv Louisville audiences may see the memorable "MADtv" character Stuart Larkin when his creator, Michael McDonald, does a standup turn Sept.

Crashing your car is never a fun occasion ... unless you're on reality TV. Scott Presley, a Somerset a native, will be appearing tonight on the ABC series "Crash Course." Anyone with a need for speed will want to tune in to this one as Scott and his partner on the show take on an obstacle course for automobiles.

Nicole Sullivan 's publicist said the television actress has given birth in Los Angeles to a son she named Beckett Edward Packham.