ABC late night host Jimmy Kimmel and his comedienne partner-in-crime Sarah Silverman have broken up after five years of dating, the stars’ respective reps confirmed to Vanity Fair on Monday.

“Jimmy and Sarah have and will have no further comment.”

Comedienne Kathy Griffin, star of Bravo’s Kathy Griffin: My Life on the D-List, on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno-July 10th. Read the rest of this entry »

Comedians Sacha Baron Cohen and Will Ferrell have been cast to appear in a new comedy based on the classic Sherlock Holmes franchise. Columbia Pictures has greenlit a film, currently in pre-production, that will feature the Borat comic (Sacha Baron Cohen) as master detective Sherlock Holmes and Ferrell as Watson, Holmes’ partner is crime-solving, Variety reported Wednesday.

Comedian George Carlin died of heart failure late Sunday. He was seventy-one. Read the rest of this entry »

Joan Rivers is getting senile. The veteran comic chatterbox was tossed off of a British talk show on Tuesday after she referred to Oscar-nominated actor Russell Crowe as a “fucking piece of shit” on live television. Joan was appearing as a guest on ITV’s Loose Women to promote the West End debut of her new one-woman show Joan Rivers: A Work in Progress by a Life in Progress. The slipup has left British audiences mortified; the network received nearly fifty complaints from viewers after Joan let loose on the air. Read the rest of this entry »