Review: “It Started As A Joke,” a documentary about Eugene Mirman and his Comedy Loves
by It Started As A Joke is not just a documentary, it’s also a love story. It’s a love story about Eugene Mirman and so-called “alt-comedy”; …
Author: Sean L. McCarthy
Editor and publisher since 2007, when he was named New York's Funniest Reporter. Former newspaper reporter at the New York Daily News, Boston Herald and smaller dailies and community papers across America. Loves comedy so much he founded this site.
Episode #306: Jamie Kennedy
Jamie Kennedy still may be best known for playing Randy Meeks in the big-screen Scream franchise, but Kennedy has enjoyed a wild and varied acting …
George Lopez’s Guest Host Monologue for Jimmy Kimmel Live
George Lopez hosted his own late-night talk show for a couple of years in the late 2000s for TBS, but never like this. And never …
Bert Kreischer Expands Summer 2020 Drive-In Tour Dates
Bert Kreischer’s initial foray into touring comedy at drive-in movie joints was so successful, other comedians and drive-in operators have gotten into the act across …
Team Coco Announces First Four HBO Max Stand-Up Specials
We already knew Team Coco was expanding its comedy profile by producing stand-up specials for HBO Max. Now we know who and when. The first …
Nikki Glaser’s Guest Host Monologue for Jimmy Kimmel Live
Nikki Glaser got out of her parents’ house and into the Jimmy Kimmel Live TV house to guest-host Tuesday night’s show. Glaser recalled filming an …
Bridget Everett to star in HBO’s Somebody Somewhere
Comedian and singer Bridget Everett will star in an HBO series inspired by her upbringing in Kansas. HBO today announced it had ordered Somebody Somewhere …
Montreal’s Just For Laughs Goes Virtual For 2020
And now it’s official. Montreal’s Just For Laughs won’t convene in person this summer, or this fall, or at all in 2020. Instead, JFL is …
Joel McHale’s Guest Host Monologue for Jimmy Kimmel Live
To start the third week of Jimmy Kimmel’s summer vacation, guest host Joel McHale took the show out of the house and into the swimming …
Catching Up on United Shades of America with W. Kamau Bell
The fifth season of W. Kamau Bell’s award-winning CNN series, United Shades, premiered Sunday night. I wrote a little bit about Bell and his program …