Skip to content
November 3, 2025
  • About
  • Last Things First — Podcasts
  • Reviews
  • Interviews
  • Live!
The Comic's Comic

The Comic's Comic

The Definitive Guide to Comedy

  • About
  • Last Things First — Podcasts
  • Live!
  • Comedy Festivals
  • Meet Me In New York
  • About
  • Last Things First — Podcasts
  • Live!
  • Comedy Festivals
  • Meet Me In New York

Month: February 2017

Kate Berlant and John Early talk about their Vimeo 555 anthology and the fringes of Hollywood
Interviews

Kate Berlant and John Early talk about their Vimeo 555 anthology and the fringes of Hollywood

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyFebruary 3, 2017

Kate Berlant and John Early worked together on each other’s half-hour special episode of The Characters for Netflix, and often collaborate on- and offstage. Now …

Into the “Night Gallery” of death, dating and anti-depressants with Joe DeRosa’s “You Let Me Down” on Comedy Central
Interviews / Reviews

Into the “Night Gallery” of death, dating and anti-depressants with Joe DeRosa’s “You Let Me Down” on Comedy Central

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyFebruary 3, 2017

Joe DeRosa didn’t intend to release his one-hour Comedy Central special, You Let Me Down, the same week as his good friend Bill Burr’s new …

Funny or Die reimagines City Slickers as a Westworld narrative
TV / Video

Funny or Die reimagines City Slickers as a Westworld narrative

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyFebruary 3, 2017

Better late than never, Funny or Die inspired a City Slickers reunion and recruited a few folks from Westworld for a parody mashup. Because, of …

Review: “The Comedian” starring Robert De Niro
Movies / Reviews

Review: “The Comedian” starring Robert De Niro

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyFebruary 3, 2017February 3, 2017

Don’t be misled by the title or the movie trailers. The Comedian, a Taylor Hackford film (An Officer and a Gentleman, Ray) starring Robert De …

Stand-up comedy by kids or for kids
News / Video

Stand-up comedy by kids or for kids

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyFebruary 2, 2017

Perhaps you saw this segment on last night’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, in which Fallon and his guests Judd Apatow and …

Billy Zane goes Georgia Gold(finger) for KFC in Super Bowl ad battle with Rob Riggle
TV

Billy Zane goes Georgia Gold(finger) for KFC in Super Bowl ad battle with Rob Riggle

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyFebruary 2, 2017February 2, 2017

After cycling through colonels quicker than you get used to them, Kentucky Fried Chicken seemed to settle on Rob Riggle as its TV hypeman dressed …

TBS becomes new partner for New York Comedy Festival, bringing Conan and more TV talent to the fest in November 2017
News / TV

TBS becomes new partner for New York Comedy Festival, bringing Conan and more TV talent to the fest in November 2017

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyFebruary 2, 2017

The New York Comedy Festival has a new TV partner: TBS. After spending 2016 relaunching its own comedy brand — and with it the premieres …

Orny Adams on Conan
Late-night TV credit

Orny Adams on Conan

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyFebruary 2, 2017February 2, 2017

Orny Adams literally was all over the place during his stand-up performance on Wednesday’s Conan. Pacing back and forth across the stage, shaking his microphone …

Does God exist? Stephen Colbert debates Ricky Gervais on The Late Show
Video

Does God exist? Stephen Colbert debates Ricky Gervais on The Late Show

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyFebruary 2, 2017

Stephen Colbert is a devout Catholic. Ricky Gervais is a proud atheist. Although Gervais described himself more as an “agnostic atheist” on Wednesday’s Late Show, …

Chris Gethard’s “Career Suicide” will become an HBO special
News / TV

Chris Gethard’s “Career Suicide” will become an HBO special

Sean L. McCarthyby Sean L. McCarthyFebruary 1, 20171

Far from it, Chris Gethard’s powerful one-man show, “Career Suicide,” will give him his first HBO special because of it. HBO announced the news today. …

Posts navigation

Previous 1 … 5 6 7 Next

Archives

Buy Comedy Books!

Try Apple News

Subscribe to Podcast

Androidby EmailRSS
Copyright © 2025 The Comic's Comic. Powered by WordPress and Bam.