The Definitive Guide to Comedy
“I’m in a suit! This is big time for me!” That’s how Sean Donnelly opened his network TV debut last night on Late Show with David Letterman. Just a month ago, Donnelly was one of the New Faces at Montreal’s Just For Laughs comedy festival. Of course, two other New …
If you’ve seen Aziz Ansari perform live anytime in the past year, you’ve likely heard him ask audience members about their experiences in dating and technology. It’s made for some fun crowd work in what Ansari has turned a running dialogue with the audience about what’s appropriate and not in …
Cory Booker, mayor of Newark, N.J., and Democratic U.S. Senate candidate, left the Garden State on Wednesday night to practice his stand-up stump speech in Philadelphia. Booker did the right things beforehand, telling his 1.4 million Twitter followers @CoryBooker, “Politicians trying 2B funny. Recipe 4 disaster?” And making a joke up …
Stand-up comedian Tom Cotter returned last night to America’s Got Talent for an encore performance. Cotter had finished runner-up in the summer 2012 season on NBC. “If you didn’t watch the show last year, let me give you a brief synopsis. I lost to a dog act in front of …
Insomniac fans better sneak their naps in this year while they can. Because Dave Attell is coming back to late-nights on Comedy Central in 2014. The cable channel announced the reunion today. Here’s the deal. Attell will host a new eight-episode late-night stand-up series, along with a new one-hour stand-up special, …
“The rest of it — the actual audition — is a blur. And that’s a good sign. Because the best things in your life, I think, you don’t have a memory of because it goes by so quickly.” — So says Fred Armisen, about his Saturday Night Live audition, 11 …
If you’re going to watch Steve Martin play the banjo, better to have him play “Dueling Banjos” with someone equally as compelling and fun. You know, like Kermit the Frog. In this new Funny or Die exclusive, we see Steve and Kermit get their jam on. Who ya got?! Steve …
We know we’re in the final days and nights of the Edinburgh Festival Fringe when the awards shortlist is released, and that just happened today. So here they are, your shortlisted nominees for the 2013 Foster’s Edinburgh Comedy Awards! Best Comic / Comedy Show For the funniest, most outstanding, up-and-coming …
John Wing may have made some dumb decisions earlier in his life, but he made a very smart one last night on live primetime network television. With only a couple of minutes to impress the judges and live audiences in Radio City Music Hall (and everywhere watching on NBC), Wing …
By Caleb Synan Good comedians do stand-up every night. Sometimes a wedding, a broken-down car, or some other emergency can get in the way of this, but as a general rule, the good ones work more nights out of the year than they take off. That being said, doing 500 …
