The Definitive Guide to Comedy
⭐⭐⭐⭐ Ismael Loutfi’s story is not the typical saga of the child of immigrants who becomes an American stand-up comedian and TV writer. Sure, Loutfi has grown into both of those professions. But few can talk about having a father moving to Connecticut from Syria in the late 1970s, having …
⭐⭐⭐⭐1/2 Plenty of Fringe shows begin with trigger warnings, but how many can boast a cute warning? Grace Helbig was inducted as part of the inaugural class into the VidCon Hall of Fame earlier this summer, along with fellow O.G. YouTubers Rhett & Link, Smosh, and Hank Green. Green released …
I’m back! Still getting acclimated and running around trying to see shows and book tickets for more shows. Full reviews will begin posting late tonight on a show-by-show basis, and then I’m keeping a full-page guide to all of Edinburgh Fringe reviews over on my newsletter, From The Comic’s Comic. …
Tamara Yajia’s family immigrated to America from Argentina twice before she became a teenager, and the second time prevented her from becoming potentially Argentina’s version of Britney Spears, for better or for worse. Yajia documents it all in her new memoir, CRY FOR ME, ARGENTINA: My Life as a Failed Child …
Originally from Caracas, Venezuela, Veronica Osorio moved to New York City after spending her teen years clowning and acting in South America. Once in America, she joined the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre, where she performed on house sketch teams with Kate McKinnon, Nicole Byer, and Natasha Rothwell, among others. In …
I spoke with comedian Nimesh Patel when he thought he had licensed his new hour, Instant Karma to Netflix. Shortly after our chat, Netflix decided to film a brand-new hour with Patel instead later in 2025. So our chat found him at a crossroads — Patel had just filmed an episode …
The comedian James Tom now jokes about having told they/them pronoun jokes as far back as 2013 quote-unquote “before most non-binary people were born.” Back then, Tom felt alone in the world and in the comedy community. But now, living and performing as a gay trans man, Tom told me …
Rory Rosegarten started his career as a comedy manager by the time he was 20 with a whopper of a first client: the already legendary Robert Klein. More than four decades later, as founder and still president of The Conversation Company, Rosegarten manages a small but highly successful comedy clientele — …
Mike Drucker is an Emmy-nominated and WGA-winning writer and comedian living in New York. Drucker’s comedy career really began with an internship at Saturday Night Live, where he later contributed to SNL’s Weekend Update as well as The Onion before leaving the city and the East Coast for a gig writing for …
Fooling media outlets into thinking she created the Netflix series “Emily in Paris” may have won the comedian and Fordham grad Abby Govindan plenty of new followers on Twitter in 2021, but it didn’t go a long way in making her the pride of her Indian American family back home in Houston. It’s just …
