The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Donald Glover is an actor (currently and most notably, on NBC’s Community, which he is only partially on for the upcoming season), a writer, a comedian and a rapper. For the latter, he has adopted a nom de plume or nom de rap of Childish Gambino. And for his latest album, “because …
Sherri Shepherd hosts the second season of NickMom Night Out, the late-night stand-up comedy showcase that airs on Nick Jr. for an audience of mostly moms who are ready for a laugh after putting their children to bed. This week sees new episodes debuting nightly, with weekly premieres following at …
For a labor dispute in which the unionization of TV writers is in dispute, the Writers Guild of America sure is busy already, seemingly involved in the only actual decisions regarding E!’s Fashion Police with Joan Rivers. On Monday, the WGA announced it had expelled scribe Larry Amoros from the …
You’re hankering for a slice of pizza, so you slide on into your favorite spot, and just as you’re satisfying your hunger pains, what to your surprise interrupts your everything but a stand-up comedian with his or her own microphone and camera crew?! That’s what happens in the first episode …
What’s your favorite SNL character? No, I mean, by name. By full name. I don’t know that we ever learned who Stefon really was, nor that anyone really cared if Gilly had a last name. And it may have taken a few tries before we learned how to spell Dooneese …
Over the past few years, Comedy Central has embraced the transition to digital consumption — first with releasing stand-up comedy albums in digital-only releases, and more recently with production and distribution of webseries that don’t make it onto the cable TV channel. Today, Comedy Central announced an internal restructuring of …
Simon Amstell is a young chap from the U.K. on his own on the road and at home. And despite his youth, he has some honestly dark and amusing insight into a life lived in isolation. No rules! Perhaps there should be some rules. Or at least one rule. Failing …
Brian McKim, aka “The Male Half” of Shecky Magazine, performed on Friday night’s Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson. For this set, McKim proved he’s still bringing the laughs per minute 25 years after he first decided to do so for a living. Jokes, jokes, jokes. Do you suppose “The …
Last week, NBC carried college football past 11:30 p.m., delaying the live start of Saturday Night Live in the Eastern and Central time zones (you Mountain and Pacific people, and people everywhere else, well, you saw SNL whenever you saw it, so you know who you were when you were …
Improv. Say that one word in comedy circles and you’ll see a multitude of reactions. OK. Mostly likely one of three: Love. Hate. Indifference. Or maybe even something that’s along the spectrum that connects those three. Who decides to pursue a life or career in improv comedy, what are their …
