The Definitive Guide to Comedy
If you haven’t yet watched the new Pete Holmes stand-up hour, Faces and Sounds, it debuted Saturday night on HBO and delivers — and not just because of his many titular faces and sounds! Here’s an excerpt from my review in Decider: HBO’s audience may not be as familiar with …
Congrats to my friends and all of the other comedy writers nominated today for the 2017 Writers Guild Association (WGA) Awards. Awards will be handed out in separate ceremonies held the same night, Feb. 19, 2017, in New York City (hosted by Lewis Black) and Los Angeles (hosted by Patton …
For years, Jimmy Kimmel has hosted a live edition of Jimmy Kimmel Live: After the Oscars, cashing in on all of the Academy Award nominees and winners celebrating just across the street. In 2017, Kimmel will join them for the big show in primetime. He’ll host the 2017 Academy Awards …
“Sometimes God just sends you the material.” — Mo Amer How stand-up comedian Mo Amer initially described his encounter with Eric Trump to his Facebook friends last Wednesday. Amer found himself sitting next to President-elect Donald J. Trump’s son, Eric Trump, on a flight last week from New York City to Scotland, …
The December issue of GQ includes its annual “Men of the Year” profiles, and among them, this essay from Patton Oswalt on becoming both a widower and a single father when his wife suddenly died in her sleep in April. Here’s an excerpt: “This is my first time being a …
This just in. TBS has ordered up a new animated comedy series, Final Space, created by Olan Rogers and produced by Conan O’Brien Conaco with New Form. It’ll launch in 2018. Final Space revolves around an astronaut named Gary and his adorable, planet-destroying friend, Mooncake, as they embark on a quest …
Perhaps your friends already have shown you this video from the past month of someone activating both an Amazon Echo and a Google Home device, and then standing back as the two products of artificial intelligence, Alexa and Google, talk to each other in an almost infinite loop. But someone …
Longtime reader, first-time contributor. Matt Ruby was one of the first people in New York City to come up to me and email me to acknowledge his support of The Comic’s Comic when I launched the site independently more than nine years ago. Ruby said nice things to me inside …
Plenty of cable channels/networks have rebranded and renamed themselves since first launching in the 1980s or 1990s, and now truTV has fully embraced its newer identity as a full-time comedy channel — complete with a new ad campaign and tagline, “Funny Because It’s tru.” The campaign features the following truTV …
Kevin Roper, the 37-year-old Walmart truck driver who plowed into the limousine carrying Tracy Morgan and his entourage — killing comedian James “Jimmy Mack” MacNair on June 7, 2014, and seriously injuring Morgan, comedian Ardie Fuqua and Morgan’s assistant — pleaded guilty Tuesday to vehicular homicide and four counts of …
