The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Check out the first five weeks of guest hosts for Comedy Central’s The Daily Show, kicking off next Tuesday with Leslie Jones, and continuing with Wanda Sykes, D.L. Hughley, Chelsea Handler, and Sarah Silverman. More details on that, plus all of the first 10 days of comedy industry news and …
Kelly Monteith died on New Year’s Day at his home in California. Monteith was 80, and has suffered two strokes in early 2021 that left him unable to perform due to aphasia. But long before that, Monteith established the idea that American comedians could enjoy successful careers across the pond …
Let’s do better in 2023, comedy industry! Please?!?! Read my last weekly comedy news dispatch for 2022, which catches up with some of the most notorious men in comedy today.
Brandon Montrell, better known as the comedian Boogie B., died tragically Friday in a shooting outside of a New Orleans supermarket. Montrell was 43. Montrell was home for the holidays and not the intended victim in the shooting, according to New Orleans police. Anyone with information or can locate these …
My weekly update on all the comedy news you need to know, now up on my Substack!
Noah Gregoropoulos, a celebrated teacher of improv comedians from Chicago, has died from cancer. He was 63. A graduate of Northwestern University, Gregoropoulous taught comedians and comedic actors at improvOlympic (iO) since the early 1990s, and fully took over when Del Close died in 1999. Which meant he helped shape …
Comedy news of the week, including Trevor Noah’s final TDS, the final month for Carolines on Broadway, and more. All for subscribers of my Substack, Piffany!
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Comedy doesn’t have a Human Resources department, so leave it to The Comic’s Comic to dole out honors and/or discipline accordingly. Our Employees of the Month for November 2022 are the comedians mocking Elon Musk on Twitter. Congrats! NOTE: This is a feature I introduced on my Substack, Piffany, in 2021, and …
This weekend, I posted the first in what I hope becomes a regular end-of-the-week newsletter column that catches you up on everything that’s happening in the world of comedy. My first dispatch “From The Comic’s Comic” this weekend includes breaking news on the musical chairs among NYC sketch/improv theater groups …
