The Definitive Guide to Comedy
“This is comedy now. It’s in a park. There’s no microphone. You’re basically just a hobo screaming to strangers…in the park.” Behold Mark Normand, in “Park Normand,” a video posted yesterday following him on three gigs in New York City’s Central Park, trying to find live audiences for stand-up comedy …
You still have three weeks to submit your own favorite moments from Conan for a special fan-built episode called DIY CONAN, and a chance for you to win prizes such as Conan action figures, electronics, and as you can presume from the graphic provided, a whole lot of Snickers. The …
In case you missed the stand-up showcase series Unprotected Sets when it aired on EPIX in 2018, don’t worry. You’ll soon also be able to enjoy it as a podcast. The first episode debuted Aug. 5 via MGM and Audio Up, with Zainab Johnson. Here’s how Audio Up describes the …
The Joan Rivers Estate has announced a deal with Comedy Dynamics to sort through hundreds of hours of previously unreleased material from the late great comedian, with plans to release a box set, digital albums and more in 2021. As Melissa Rivers told Variety: “While hundreds of hours of my …
The hottest comedy club of 2020 isn’t New York City’s Comedy Cellar nor even The Comedy Store in West Hollywood’s Sunset Strip. It’s nowhere near New York or Los Angeles. It’s not even a club, per se, but rather an outdoor pavilion in Yellow Springs, Ohio, a small town of …
Shocking absolutely nobody, both the Moontower Comedy Festival in Austin and the New York Comedy Festival finally announced they were abandoning plans to put on fests in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic. Moontower, which happens in April under normal conditions, first tried to postpone the 2020 event to September. But …
Comedy Central is continuing its nostalgia trip into the early 1990s… After previously green-lighting reboots or reimaginings or revivals or whatever-you-may-call-thems of Beavis and Butt-Head and a Daria spin-off, Comedy Central now has announced it’s bringing back The Ren & Stimpy Show. “I want to thank our partners at Nick …
The inaugural Tournament of Laughs from TBS has wrapped and declared a winner. Would you believe…Piff the Magic Dragon? Sunday’s finale, hosted by Jason Sudeikis, saw the final four competitors quickly winnowed to two, with Piff beating out Natasha Leggero (who claimed in last week’s episode that she didn’t want …
This is a first: America’s Got Talent isn’t waiting for you to watch any more episodes on NBC before revealing who are the 44 acts remaining that will compete in the live shows this August. Among them: comedians Alex Hooper, Usama Siddiquee, and Michael Yo; plus impersonator Vincent Marcus. Season …
The Laugh Factory’s Chicago club has announced it will reopen this Saturday (Aug. 1), in accordance with the city of Chicago’s reopening guidelines during the COVID-19 pandemic. The club plans to put on shows on weekends only through September, with audiences limited to 50 per show. All of the performers …
