The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Carl LaBove died today following a long battle with cancer. He was 62. LaBove, an original founding member of “The Outlaws of Comedy,” was born in Fort Worth, Texas, and grew up a military child, seeing the world, before landing back in Texas as a teen to begin his comedy …
Three months after Donald Trump left the White House, Comedy Central’s Jordan Klepper reflected on his 14 months covering the 2020 Trump campaign in a new half-hour special, in The Daily Show with Trevor Noah Presents: Jordan Klepper Fingers The Pulse – Into The MAGAverse, From an undisclosed parking lot in …
It’s April 20, or 4/20, and that’s the not-so secret code for stoners everywhere to celebrate, because it’s finally 4:20 everywhere. For a new spin on it, comedian Ron Funches hosts a special spin-off of the popular Food Network competition series, Chopped, called what else, Chopped 420. As of now, …
Emmy Blotnick has a newfound appreciation for weighted blankets, and wonders how some of us ended up with so many sleeping accessories, in this performance on The Tonight Show.
Here’s your first look at what could be Chappelle’s Show for a new generation. It’s THAT DAMN MICHAEL CHE! The new six-episode Max Original comedy series THAT DAMN MICHAEL CHE premieres May 6. This groundbreaking new original comedy series uses sketches and vignettes to illustrate what it feels like to experience various …
Erica Rhodes is an actress and comedian who got her start at the age of 10, performing on the nationally syndicated public radio hit, A Prairie Home Companion. Rhodes began her stand-up comedy career two decades later, inspired by a bad audition. But things have looked up for her since then. …
The past year has been both blessing and curse for comedian Orlando Leyba, and both good and bad revolve around the changing nature of his personal space in the pandemic. Leyba explains in this new performance on The Tonight Show.
Maronzio Vance has appeared on Wanda Sykes: Wanda Does It, Jamie Foxx’s Laffapolooza, Last Comic Standing, and The Tonight Show, and put out a half-hour special on Comedy Central, back when those credits seemed to mean something. Vance has released a double-album of comedy called 20, out on Blonde Medicine, laced with his understated …
Another of the original writers for Saturday Night Live has died. Anne Beatts, who was the first woman hired to help edit The National Lampoon, and after SNL went on to create the cult sitcom Square Pegs, died Wednesday. Beatts was 74. Her former colleague, SNL’s Laraine Newman, confirmed the …
Ester Steinberg started performing stand-up on the lunch tables of her high school in Tampa before attending NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. While living in Los Angeles before the pandemic, she produced and hosted a regular comedy show in the Kibitz Room of Canter’s Deli, co-starred in the Oxygen …
