The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Irish comedian Sean Hughes was only 24 when he won the Edinburgh Fringe Festival’s top prize for his 1990 showcase, “A One Night Stand with Sean Hughes.” Hughes returned to Edinburgh this past August with friends for an improvised showcase, “Sean Hughes’s Blank Book.” Hughes broke through young, and he …
Wyatt Cenac is joining John Oliver and Jon Stewart in making the jump to HBO. HBO announced a new 10-episode late-night series starring Cenac that will debut in spring 2018. The untitled series stars Cenac, and will be executive produced by him alongside Oliver, Ezra Edelman and Hallie Haglund, who’ll …
Kevin Hart will return to an arena near you in 2018, as he’s just announced his new Irresponsbile Tour, kicking off New Year’s Eve in Orlando. The first 16 dates of the tour, produced by Live Nation, will feature new stand-up material, with tickets going on sale Oct. 20 at …
Kumail Nanjiani hosted the Oct. 14, 2017, episode of Saturday Night Live (season 43, episode 3) and delivered a stand-up comedy monologue that was as funny as it was heartfelt. Much like his critically-acclaimed movie from earlier this year, The Big Sick. Nanjiani touched not only on how his Muslim …
Welcome to the late-night TV hosting club, Robin Thede! Thursday night’s premiere of The Rundown with Robin Thede on BET proved that Thede had a lot more to offer than we saw in her brief tenure as head writer and correspondent on Comedy Central’s The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore. As …
Ralphie May, a larger than life stand-up comedian who won the hearts of America if not also their votes in the very first season of NBC’s Last Comic Standing, has died. May was 45. Though battling pneumonia for the past week, May continued to show up for his 2017 residency …
Something remarkable happened on Wednesday’s episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. It wasn’t one of the many game shows within Fallon’s talk shows, or something his musical guest performed, or anything from Fallon’s monologue or from his overly enthusiastic interactions with his guests. Nor was it even particularly …
Kathleen Madigan is going on her very own theater tour to kick off 2018, taking her to at least 30 cities between January and June. Madigan announced her “Boxed Wine & Bigfoot Tour” from one of her favorite local bars. “I had most of the summer off, then this September …
Congrats to Ellis Rodriguez from Sacramento, who won the 42nd annual San Francisco Comedy Competition, which wrapped up its monthlong contest around Northern California this past weekend. Wait, who won again? The other finalists: 2nd Place: Tyrone Hawkins (Cincinnati, OH) 3rd Place: Mark Smalls (San Francisco, CA) 4th Place: Matt …
Comedy acting couple Seth Rogen and Lauren Miller Rogen have a new partner for their program Hilarity For Charity (HFC), which raises awareness and money among millennials to help deal with and fight Alzheimer’s. It’s Netflix! I'm thrilled to announce that Netflix has joined HILARITY FOR CHARITY as a presenting …
