Bill Kills!

Host of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, Bill Bellamy is a familiar name to people who remember when the M in MTV began to be replaced with greenbacks, beach houses and close-ups of tanned, gyrating asses; it’s safe to say he had a hand in ushering in whatever-the-hell pop-culture era we’re presently barely feigning an interest in. But that’s not his fault! Don’t shoot the piano player. An actor and comedian who is credited with first uttering the now-ubiquitous and blatantly honest term for late-night sex trades—“booty call”—on Def Comedy Jam, Bellamy is sort of a suave jack-of-all-trades, as well as someone who squelches the perceived impossibility of getting your hands into all of Hollywood’s cookie jars.
Thu., Oct. 16, 8:30 p.m., 2008