Andrea Martin and Colin Mochrie honored with inaugural Candy Awards at Crackup Comedy Festival
by The legend of John Candy lives on in the spirits, hearts and minds of funny Canadians and comedy lovers everywhere. And now, the comedy festival …
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Episode #199: Rachel Bloom with Dan Gregor
Rachel Bloom is the creator and star of Crazy Ex-Girlfriend on The CW, for which she has won the Golden Globe and the Critics Choice …
Joe List on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Joe List performed on Friday night’s Tonight Show, and reminded us all how body-shaming didn’t used to have a name, his routine at the gym, …
NBC announces Late Night Writers Workshop class of 2018
Congrats to the comedians and funny writers named today to NBC’s Late Night Writers Workshop, an annual program “focused on exposing talented sketch and comedy …
Pence parody book has a happy ending
When John Oliver’s announced his staff at HBO’s Last Week Tonight had made a parody of a children’s book about Vice President Mike Pence’s family …
Adam Cayton-Holland on The Late Late Show with James Corden
Adam Cayton-Holland performed Thursday on The Late Late Show with James Corden and filled us in on how his life has changed since getting married …
R.I.P. Tim Jones
Tim Jones, a regular at The Comedy Store throughout the 1980s comedy boom and into the 1990s, has died. Jones, a native New Yorker, headed …
NerdMelt Showroom and Meltdown Comics closing end of March 2018
April Fool’s Day will be the worst prank ever for fans of Meltdown Comics and the NerdMelt Showroom for comedy inside of it. The joint …
Here’s the lineup for Seth Rogen’s Hilarity for Charity comedy special on Netflix
That Hilarity For Charity fund-raiser I told you about last fall that would be presented on Netflix? Yeah, that’s still happening. Now with an official …
New York Magazine’s Vulture has gobbled up Splitsider
The student is now the master? Former Splitsider writer (now Vulture Senior Editor) Jesse David Fox and his colleagues at New York magazine have acquired …