The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
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 …
Tony Hendra has died at 79. His wife, Carla Hendra, told The New York Times the cause was amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, often known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, which was first diagnosed in 2019. Tony Hendra began his career at Cambridge University with the famed Footlights as the comedy partner of Graham Chapman, …
Overnight, an FBI wanted plea on Twitter became a mourning ground for comedy fans as it slowly dawned on many of them that what, at first, jokingly appeared to be comedic actor Jay Johnston in photos from the U.S. Capitol insurrection of Jan. 6, 2021, kept being confirmed by comedy …
If you’re on the go and just need a fast laugh, and wondering why Quibi hasn’t filled that need for you, well then, now Netflix has something for you. It’s called Fast Laughs. From Netflix HQ: Fast Laughs offers a full-screen feed of funny clips from our big comedy catalog …
While waiting for VIacomCBS to flip the switch and relaunch CBS All Access as Paramount+, I thought, hey, why not see what’s cooking, so to speak, over on Discovery+? After all, they’re promising 55,000+ real-life TV episodes on the new Discovery+ streaming platform, and if you have Verizon Wireless, you …
Richie Tienken, the founding owner of The Comic Strip on New York City’s Upper East Side and former manager of Eddie Murphy and Adam Sandler, has died. As Sandler said back in 2012 for a TV tribute to Murphy: “I tried to do everything he did in his career,” Sandler …
Feel like you missed out on what happened this past month? Let’s catch up! LAST THINGS FIRST, MY PODCASTS! Episode #324: Erin Jackson Episode #325: Patton Oswalt Episode #326: Lucas Brothers HEADLINES Seth Meyers renewed his Late Night contract with NBC through 2025. That’s coincidentally conveniently lining up with the …
Comedian and actress Erica Faye Watson died on Saturday in Jamaica after contracting COVID-19. She had just turned 48 on Friday. Watson was a regular contributor to Windy City Live in Chicago, and performed on multiple TV series and movies that filmed in Chicago, including The Chi, Chi-Raq, and Chicago …
Stand-up comedian Erik Myers died suddenly and tragically this morning when he was hit by a car near Amarillo, Texas. Myers, 40, was en route to a weekend of gigs at Hyena’s Comedy Club in Dallas, where he was scheduled to perform tonight through Saturday. Hyena’s modified its page today: …
