The Definitive Guide to Comedy
New York Times comedy critic Jason Zinoman has joined me every year since 2015 for our own traditional December To Remember the year in comedy. On the one hand, I try to pin Zinoman down on who we might vote for if comedy, like sports, awarded an MVP for the Most …
Jen D’Angelo is a comedian, actress and screenwriter in Los Angeles. Originally from the Philadelphia area, she graduated from Northwestern before heading to LA and joining the UCB system as a writer and performer. Her stand-up credits include appearances on @midinght, Last Call with Carson Daly, and Adam Devine’s House …
Chris Turner is a stand-up comedian and freestyle rapper from England who made his debut as a solo artist at the Edinburgh Fringe with 2014’s Pretty Fly, which won the Amused Moose People’s Choice award. Turner made his New York City debut five years later with 2019’s White Boy — …
Actress and comedian Sasheer Zamata may be most familiar to comedy fans from her four years on Saturday Night Live, but she has kept busy on-screen since then, too — co-starring for two seasons on Hulu’s WOKE, and for the past three seasons on ABC’s Home Economics. She’s also due …
**** (out of 5) Olivier Martin-Salvan and Pierre Guillois would’ve been movie stars in the silent era a century ago. They evoke more than a bit of Laurel and Hardy, but with even starker contrasts. In this contemporary duo, this Ollie (Martin-Salvan) does most all of the talking while sitting …
**** (out of 5) It’s safe for me to tell you that Max & Ivan’s previous show, Commitment, is now available on YouTube. As for everything else, well, which quadrant would I like to follow? Max claims he’s active safe, while Ivan is passive risk. These opposites made for a …
*** 1/2 (out of 5) At 25, Philipp Kostelecky still looks like the villain in a high-school basketball movie. That might be the Austrian in him. Kostelecky is a mix of Austrain, American and Slovenian. His dad left when Philipp was only 9. Now, his deadbeat dad is merely dead. …
*** 1/2 (out of 5) André de Freitas jokes about being Portugal’s biggest export since cork. Then again, did you even know about Portuguese cork? Can you even name another Portuguese stand-up comedian? To be fair, de Freitas doesn’t so much resemble a young Cristiano Ronaldo as he does a …
**** (out of 5) There’s a big difference between Dad energy and Daddy energy, and Sam Lake is only looking for the latter. This isn’t Lake’s Edinburgh Fringe debut, as he was here last year. And yet this hour still has all the feels of a coming-out party of sorts …
**** 1/2 (out of 5) The Fringe boasts several late-night showcases around Edinburgh where comedy fans can find stand-up, burlesque or some combination of the two. None of these variety hours curates chaos quite like Stamptown can. With Zach Zucker presiding as master of ceremonies in character as horrible throwback …
