The Definitive Guide to Comedy
After spending his 20s as a computer programmer, Will Hines caught the improv bug when he began studying and performing at the Upright Citizens Brigade Theatre in 1999 in New York City. He has gone on to become one of the most respected and experienced improv instructors with the UCB …
You’ve been hearing the wit and wisdom of Harry Shearer for the past four decades. Since 1983, Shearer has hosted and produced a weekly hourlong radio program, Le Show, that mixes news reports, interviews and music that can be equal parts referential and comedic. (It’s heard around the world on …
Sophie Santos grew up in locations around the country, moving from Kansas to Alabama and eventually New York City, where she hosts “The Lesbian Agenda,” a satirical comedy show that she plans to take on the road to further her agenda. In 2021, Santos voiced roles in two Audible Original …
Chris Turner didn’t come all the way over from England to make his American network television debut and just deliver some clever wordplay, did he? Alas, no. For his first performance on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, Turner let us know he wasn’t joking when he said he was …
Are push-ups better than therapy? Is Kanye West the Michael Jackson reference for millennials? Nore Davis explains in this stand-up set on Tuesday’s Tonight Show.
Niccole Thurman is an actress, writer, and the co-host of the podcast, The Scroll Down with Marcella Arguello. Originally from Kansas, Thurman studied acting at the University of Kansas before finding her place in comedy through The Second City in Chicago. She served as a correspondent on Comedy Central’s The …
Bo Burnham received six Emmy nominations for his end-of-the-eligibility-period Netflix special, Inside, recorded, shot and edited all by himself in isolation in his guest house. And he already has won three Emmys for it. Over the weekend, the Creative Arts Emmy ceremonies bestowed him with the statues for both writing …
Bill Engvall is a Grammy-nominated comedian from Texas who made up one-fourth of the mega-successful Blue Collar Comedy Tour alongside Jeff Foxworthy, Larry the Cable Guy and Ron White, touring from 2000 to 2006 and making a sketch comedy show together. Since then, Engvall also has starred in multiple solo …
Will Josh Blue be the last comic standing on America’s Got Talent 2021? For his semifinals performance on Tuesday, he tied in the recent closing of the Paralympics Games in Tokyo to joke about his own past experience with the U.S. Paralympic Soccer Team.
We already have one stand-up comedian in this year’s finals of America’s Got Talent. Could we have more? Here’s Kabir Singh shooting his shot in the semis during Tuesday’s live telecast. He’s certainly not ready for rejection in his personal life, as these jokes about his dating life prove. Voting …
