The Definitive Guide to Comedy
All hail Tiffany Haddish, who has now won a Grammy Award for Best Comedy Album for the audio recording of her 2019 Netflix special, Black Mitzvah. The other nominees this year for Best Comedy Album were Bill Burr (Paper Tiger), Jim Gaffigan (The Pale Tourist), Jerry Seinfeld (23 Hours to …
It’s rather noticeable that the person who helped bring roasts to Comedy Central is nowhere to be seen or heard from in the cable network’s forthcoming weeklong celebration of Hall of Flame: Top 100 Roast Moments, planned for March 29 through April 2, 2021, at 10 p.m. Eastern/Pacific. This first …
Last summer, Comedy Dynamics set up a big stage and a bigger screen outside the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, Calif., to film four separate stand-up comedy specials. Now we know when we’ll get to see the results! Tribeca Enterprises and Comedy Dynamics announced they’ll release the specials over the course …
Late-night stand-up comedy is back in the studio, baby! What a long year it has been. Congrats to Mike Vecchione for getting the nod, invited inside 30 Rock to perform on Wednesday night’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Vecchione reminds us of some of the new abnormal …
Paul Reubens is getting a multi-part documentary, thanks in part to HBO and the Safdie brothers. Matt Wolf will direct the two-parter, from HBO Documentary Films and Elara, and produced by Emma Tillinger Koskoff, Sebastian Bear-McClard, and Josh and Benny Safdie. “We all know Pee-wee Herman; it’s time for the …
Comedy Central has hired Roy Wood Jr. for another gig with the network, announcing today a new podcast called Roy’s Job Fair. Produced in partnership with iHeartMedia, the 40-episode weekly series debuts March 17. Fans of Wood already know he’s been working on the podcast, but now we know exactly what …
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah is going where no Daily Show has gone before: Into the daylight for a special geared toward kids. It’s called Remotely Educational. As this teaser clip demonstrates, you’ll be seeing and learning from Jordan Klepper, Dulce Sloan, Michael Kosta, Ronny Chieng, Roy …
Instead of bringing the comedy industry to Austin this March, SXSW 2021 has coordinated a series of filmed performances in front of live audiences at seven different comedy clubs across America. From the festival: “SXSW Comedy invited some of the most lauded comedy venues from around the country to present …
Christina Anthony is an East St. Louis native who came up through the Chicago comedy scene. Anthony joined The Second City, where she performed with e.t.c. and the touring company, and co-wrote three award-nominated sketch revues for the legendary comedy institution. But she almost never got the recognition she deserved …
The 26th annual Critics Choice Awards declared a tie tonight, with both Michelle Buteau’s Welcome to Buteaupia and Jerry Seinfeld’s 23 Hours to Kill named Best Comedy Special of 2020. Other winners included Palm Springs, the Andy Samberg and Cristin Milotti time-looping movie on Hulu, as Best Comedy Movie, and …
