The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Louis CK has won his second Grammy Award for Comedy Album of the Year, taking home the trophy tonight for “Live at Madison Square Garden.” He previously won the Grammy in 2012 for “Hilarious.” Live at Madison Square Garden came out of CK’s three sold-out shows last year in New …
You’re likely familiar with the comedians who’ve released stand-up albums in recent years on AST Records: Jimmy Pardo, Karen Kilgariff, Max Silvestri, Sean O’Connor, Liam McEneaney and Dan St. Germain among them. But before comedy nerds took over the mainstream entertainment scene, a few hundred of them were touting their …
Drennon Davis and Karen Kilgariff returned to Conan on Monday night to perform another song off of their EP, “I Don’t Care, I Like It.” And this song takes a moment to build toward its fun reveal. Although since you read the headline, perhaps you already know where it’s going. …
The 58th annual Grammy Awards announced the full slate of nominations this morning, and somewhere Nikki Cox is telling her husband told you so. Cox wrote Jay Mohr’s latest stand-up special, Happy. And A Lot. Which is up for Comedy Album of the Year. I’ve written plenty about the Grammys …
Before Bill Cosby became known as America’s Dad in the 1980s and America’s alleged serial rapist in retrospect in 2014-2015, he let us into his world a little deeper back in 1971. No. I’m not talking about Bill Cosby Talks to Kids About Drugs, the 1972 Grammy Award winner for …
Despite portraying the President of the United States for several years on network television via Saturday Night Live, and singlehandedly winning the MTV Video Music Awards by impersonating Kanye West, Jay-Z and Drake, Jay Pharoah may still be an unknown to many American viewers. So he asks in the title …
The Three Stooges can never die, and that’s not just written into their plotlines. Forty years after Moe Howard and Larry Fine both died in 1975, the often-violent slapstick antics of Moe, Larry and Curly continue to be revived and reanimated. Just in the past month, The Three Stooges estate …
Jim Breuer has a new stand-up special, “Comic Frenzy,” premiering this Friday on EPIX. But for his next trick, Breuer, who can impersonate AC/DC frontman Brian Johnson, will have the real thing rocking out with him for a new song on the comedian’s upcoming rock album. Breuer spoke about recording …
Imagine you’re a woman and you’re funny, so you decide to pursue a career in comedy. Imagine that even just in making that decision, you’ve unintentionally invited lifetimes of structurally built-in gender bias against you. Sometimes subtle and subconscious, you’re ignored or overlooked when it comes to forming improv teams …
Forbes prints out a list each year of the 10 comedians who made the most money from touring, films, TV gigs and commercial endorsements. But who’s really raking in the dough? Graduate student Randy Olson followed the money to CelebrityNetWorth.net and then started crunching the numbers. Here’s what he figured …
