The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Forty years after his first screen credit as Modell in the Barry Levinson film, Diner, Paul Reiser is enjoying a career renaissance, co-starring in the biggest series on both Netflix and Amazon in Stranger Things and The Boys. Now in his 60s, Reiser has returned to his first love, stand-up …
Sean Jordan made his late-night TV debut as a stand-up on The Late Late Show, where his podcast co-host on “All Fantasy Everything” just so happens to be Ian Karmel, sidekick and head writer James Corden. Talk about social networks! Anyhow. Jordan joked about becoming a father and all the …
Michael Rowland made his late-night TV debut this week on The Tonight Show, and the comedian joked about his friend’s habit of “people watching” perhaps isn’t as good of a habit once you think about it for a minute. Is it better or worse than watching Sex and the City …
Liz Miele started doing stand-up at 16, got profiled by The New Yorker at 18, and earned her first TV credit on Comedy Central by 22. Miele has produced and starred in multiple web series, and written a book, “Why Cats Are Assholes” which came out in 2021. She has …
Lots of comings and goings this summer inside 30 Rock’s offices and studios for Saturday Night Live. Long story short: Kate McKinnon, Aidy Bryant, Pete Davidson and Kyle Mooney bid adieu at the season 47 finale in May. In August, NBC revealed that Alex Moffat, Melissa Villasenor and Aristotle Athari …
If you enjoy listening to Wait Wait…Don’t Tell Me! on your NPR radio dials, then perhaps you might also enjoy seeing some of their regular comedians performing stand-up live in a venue near you? That’s the idea behind the new Wait Wait stand-up tour, which launched with a couple of …
Feel like you missed out on the Fringe, even if you attended and/or performed in the 2022 Edinburgh Fringe? For a limited time, the folks at NextUp are here to help. They’re offering access to 34 Fringe shows that were filmed for livestreams last month. The catch? These 2022 Fringe …
Caitlin Peluffo performed on Thursday’s Late Late Show, joking about moving in with her boyfriend, having a practical body type, and why that’s more practical than the tiny girls some men prefer. And yet surviving a pandemic with a younger boyfriend wasn’t quite the party she was expecting.
Viewers voted to save ventriloquist Celia Munoz a spot in the finals for America’s Got Talent in 2022. She had a few tricks still up her sleeves for this performance, set in a seance. Munoz won Spain’s Got Talent last year. Could she go 2-for-2 here?
Mike E. Winfield stood strong as the only stand-up comedian to make it to the final 11 competing on the 2022 season of America’s Got Talent. Winfield joked about how people remember faces much easier than they remember names, and why his face in particular might even be more memorable …
