The Definitive Guide to Comedy
About that title. Ilana Glazer means it literally, telling the audience early in her first stand-up comedy special that The Planet Is Burning, adding: “and the mean dinosaurs in office just don’t seem to mind.” But that’s not the central message, nor the main focus of her solo hour. As …
Stand-up comedian and TV game-show host Ben Gleib has ended his quixotic bid for the Democratic presidential nomination in 2020, just two days before 2020. Gleib, 41, never found a way to get traction for Gleib2020 in a crowded Democratic field. Gleib wrote on Monday: “We don’t have a clear …
Neil Innes, often referred to as “the seventh Python” due to his musical collaborations with the legendary Monty Python troupe, has died. Innes was 76. Born on Dec. 9, 1944, Innes learned piano and guitar as a child, and started a band while in university called The Bonzo Dog Dada …
He’s back! After far too long, Eddie Murphy finally returned to deliver some fresh comedy (and some old favorites) to Saturday Night Live. Here’s his monologue, with a little help from his friends Tracy Morgan, Chris Rock and Dave Chappelle. “What a moment we’re having!” Speaking of some old favorites… …
Orlando Leyba is a Yelper. That’s right. He’ll snitch on you if you do him wrong, as he explained in this performance on The Tonight Show. Roll the clip!
Angelo Lozada, a beloved stand-up comedian from The Bronx, has died. Lozada was 53. Lozada warmed up audiences for The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, and also toured the globe with Noah as his opening act. Lozada’s son, Martique, launched a GoFundMe on Dec. 15, just three days after his …
As we put a bow on 2019, it’s time once again for me to sit down with New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman to look back on the year’s best and brightest moments in comedy, and which comedians brought out the best. We couldn’t help but discuss cancel culture, …
Stuart Goldsmith wonders what happens to his friends after they have children, and now he knows. Goldsmith clues us in on this performance from Conan. Roll the clip.
truTV has announced its first-ever feature-length film, Impractical Jokers: The Movie, directed by Chris Henchy (Daddy’s Home, Eastbound & Down) and produced by Funny or Die, coming Feb. 21, 2020. James “Murr” Murray, Brian “Q” Quinn, Joe Gatto, and Sal Vulcano, the guys who formed the comedy troupe The Tenderloins before getting on truTV as Impractical Jokers, star as themselves in …
The Daily Show with Trevor Noah announced today that Jordan Klepper has rejoined the cast as a special 2020 election correspondent, filing field pieces from now through next November. Klepper’s first report, filed from Hershey, Penn., will air tonight. His field reports will carry the banner, “Jordan Klepper Fingers the Pulse,” …
