The Definitive Guide to Comedy
They just announced this year’s Emmy Award nominations, so congrats and kudos to everyone who made the list. COMEDY SERIES Barry (HBO) Fleabag (Amazon) Russian Doll (Netflix) Schitt’s Creek (POP TV) The Good Place (NBC) The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel (Amazon) Veep (HBO) ACTOR, COMEDY SERIES ACTRESS, COMEDY SERIES VARIETY TALK …
Whether or not you’ve already listened to my podcast chat with Catherine Cohen, this young cabaret star has just made her late-night TV debut, performing on Late Night with Seth Meyers. Cohen sang “Look at Me,” accompanied by Henry Koperski, buttressed with a middle section of stand-up repartee. Roll the …
Stand-up comedians love starting or ending their sets with thunderous applause. But what about an honest-to-goodness earthquake? That’s what happened to Atsuko Okatsuka on July 5, 2019, when a 7.1-magnitude quake began rumbling just after she took the stage at The Ice House in Pasadena, Calif. The quake was even …
We’re only a week away from the comedy industry’s annual confab in Montreal for Just For Laughs, and JFL has announced which big stars the fest will fete the most with Comedy Awards. This year’s recipients: Kevin Hart (Generation Award), Jim Jefferies (Stand-up Comedian of the Year), Hasan Minhaj (Breakout Comedy Star of the Year), Amanda …
With degrees in English and Theater, Catherine Cohen not only graduated from Princeton University but also delivered a humorous speech at her own graduation. Five years later, Cohen became one of New York City’s newest It Girls, bringing the cabaret community back into the mainstream of comedy. She’s all over …
In this age when comedians like to tease other comedians for delivering “TED talks” instead of stand-up comedy, it’s fascinating that nobody has actually used the TED talk format yet to both embrace and mock the trend. Until now. Thanks to Ian Edwards. And Bill Burr. Bill Burr Presents IanTalk: Ideas …
If you’re looking for my review of Aziz Ansari’s new Netflix special, Right Now, right now it’s on Decider. Media outlets generally avoid running critiques of stand-up specials. For whatever reason, some 12 years after I started The Comic’s Comic, there’s still not a lot of others taking a critical …
A year after Amazon Prime Video announced its intentions to compete for stand-up comedy by filming New Faces at Montreal’s Just For Laughs, the plan is starting to become clearer. The first Amazon Originals stand-up special, Jim Gaffigan; Quality Time, will premiere Aug. 16, 2019. The following Friday, Aug. 23, …
Netflix’s new SiriusXM radio channel, Netflix Is A Joke Radio (ch. 93), will get its own live weekday morning show next Monday (July 15, 2019), hosted by stand-up comedians Tom Papa and Fortune Feimster live from Los Angeles. What A Joke with Papa and Fortune will air Mondays-Fridays from 7-9 …
Bring The Funny is no Last Comic Standing. Nor is it America’s Got Talent. So what is Bring The Funny? The newest NBC talent competition is open to all sorts of funny people, from solo acts to groups, from stand-ups to characters to musical duos to prop acts to ventriloquists …
