The Definitive Guide to Comedy
To start the third week of Jimmy Kimmel’s summer vacation, guest host Joel McHale took the show out of the house and into the swimming pool. It’s the “Summer Bash Pool Party”? Guillermo is still working, tho.
The fifth season of W. Kamau Bell’s award-winning CNN series, United Shades, premiered Sunday night. I wrote a little bit about Bell and his program for my weekly installment in things to see and experience for the Friday Weekend Arts section of The New York Times. Bell and his crew …
Here we have the final eight comedians remaining in the first-ever Tournament of Laughs competition on TBS. Your votes determine who advances and wins. How many people are voting? Who’s winning by how much? We may never know. For now, all we know is who’s still in the competition this …
Sebastian Maniscalco hosted Wednesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC, and he had some thoughts to share about food shopping during the COVID-19 pandemic, as well as how to behave yourself in a Zoom meeting. For everything else, just ask his 3-year-old daugher, Serafina!
Whitney Cummings guest-hosted Tuesday’s episode of Jimmy Kimmel Live! on ABC, and after reminding us of her D.C. roots with some jabs at her hometown football team and the need for the District of Columbia to get Constitutional representation, she devoted the back half of her monologue to a “Roast …
Even a head writer for Saturday Night Live knows certain comedy sketches won’t fly on live television on NBC, even late at night. So Michael Che is starting his own sketch comedy series for HBO Max. It’s still untitled, but the Untitled Michael Che Project has a six-episode order, with each episode …
Taskmaster is crossing the pond this summer, allowing American audiences this August to get a taste of what comedians and actors are willing to put themselves through to entertain comedian/actor Greg Davies. Comedy Central put out one season of an American edition of Taskmaster in 2018, starring Reggie Watts as …
If you’ve been around this site over the years, then you’ve seen me write about how the Wounded Warriors Project found success in teaching American military veterans to use humor to work through their wartime tragedies. Now comes VET TV. Veteran Television, a streaming subscription platform started in 2017 by …
If you couldn’t tell from the way he said the word “borrowed,” comedian John Hastings is a Canadian. Hastings has lived in London, performed at Edinburgh and Melbourne, and now makes his home in Los Angeles, where he could audition for the almost-empty theater for America’s Got Talent. But as …
A few seasons ago, Alex Hooper auditioned for America’s Got Talent with a roast format, and the audience wasn’t having it. In 2020, with no audience, and missing one judge, Hooper returned. With new roast jokes for each of the judges. “Howie, I’m sorry. These are just jokes. Remember when …
