The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The idea, simple enough: Gather as many women in New York City comedy together in one place for a class photo. More than 200 showed up on a cold, rainy Saturday to Littlefield in Brooklyn. The result, palpable. Mindy Tucker, who’s tracked and photographed NYC comedians for the past decade, …
Janeane Garofalo is, was and shall ever be a comedy darling. She broke through in a big way in 1992, performing on one of the all-time lineups for an HBO Young Comedians Special and co-starring in both The Ben Stiller Show and The Larry Sanders Show. Over the next few years, …
You could watch golfer Adam Scott try to mount a furious fourth-round rally at The Masters in Augusta, Ga., today. Or you could watch the actor Adam Scott try to hold off the comedian Jon Daly portraying the golfer John Daly in their new half-hour special, The Adult Swim Golf …
Conan O’Brien aired a very special Saturday edition of Conan on TBS to document the highlights of his recent trip to South Korea, prompted by an invitation by one of his young fans there named Sunny Lee. O’Brien didn’t even know he had fans in Korea, because Conan doesn’t air …
Nikki Glaser opens her first Comedy Central hour striding backstage with complete poise, confidence, ready for what’s at hand, only to slip into the title credit. Perfect. Recorded before her breakthrough series Not Safe premiered on the network in February (“Perfect” also is what Glaser says over her series and …
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
Promoting his new movie, Barbershop: The Next Cut, Cedric The Entertainer fielded a question from VH1’s Sway about how comedy has evolved. The o.g. Original Kings of Comedy alum — who’s touring now with a crew of D.L. Hughley, George Lopez, Eddie Griffin and Charlie Murphy for The Comedy Get …
Nikki Glaser stars in her own weekly Comedy Central series about sex and comedy, Not Safe with Nikki Glaser, and will release her first hour stand-up special this weekend on the network: Perfect. Glaser started stand-up young enough to land on both Last Comic Standing and The Tonight Show by the …
Conan O’Brien and Team Coco last returned to NYC for a week of shows from Oct. 31-Nov. 3, 2011. Are you superstitious? Because they’ve booked the same week to return five years later! This time, Conan will film from Oct. 31 through Nov. 3, 2016, at the Apollo Theater in …
Forget about taking honorary degrees from Bill Cosby? Why not take something away from Cosby that matters? That’s what Wanda Sykes suggested when she sat down with Conan O’Brien for Tuesday’s episode of Conan. Roll the clip!
