The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Andrew “Dice” Clay brought Roseanne Barr onstage during one of his Vegas shows at The Laugh Factory this spring, marking Roseanne’s first stand-up appearance since ABC fired her from her own sitcom reboot. Turns out these comedy icons from the 1980s will be making more joint appearances and performances this …
Thanks to @RockinPins for letting us all know there’s a memorial park bench in honor of the late Brody Stevens outside a baseball diamond in Reseda, Calif. The Hollywood Reporter also just published a piece talking to comedians and friends of Stevens about the days surrounding his suicide in February. …
New York City’s top stand-up comedians will hit the books again this summer, writing their freshest, most topical jokes each week for This Week at The Comedy Cellar. The second season will premiere on Comedy Central on Friday, July 19 at 11 p.m. Eastern/Pacific. Each episode includes new jokes ripped …
Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival has booked Louie Anderson to deliver its keynote address for the 2019 comedy confab next month. Anderson’s address, “Never Give Up,” will touch on his 40 years of ups and downs in show business. His career has made a big splash of a comeback since …
The hip-hop improv comedy group now known famously for featuring Lin-Manuel Miranda as its frontman used to play for audiences at Ars Nova more than a decade ago. They moved on to dates at Comix and Joe’s Pub, performed at Super Bowl Week for ESPN, and a TV series on …
The Brits may be grappling with Brexit, still. But give ’em this much credit. They’re showing U.S. up with respect to improving the working conditions for women in TV comedy. Saskia Schuster, the head of comedy programming for Britain’s ITV network, told a festival audience Monday that: “I won’t commission …
An auction last week of items from the estate of Bob Hope included the sale of thousands of jokes typed up on index cards for the legendary comedian. Many of the auction items dated from Hope’s USO tours. There also were lots of military pins, hats and collectibles given to …
Dave Chappelle already is winning the Mark Twain Prize this year. Why not also make his Broadway debut? Chappelle will perform five nights this July at the Lunt-Fontanne Theater on West 46th Street (capacity just over 1,500). He has previously sold out lengthier runs at the larger Radio City Music …
The Upright Citizens Brigade is opening up a Spanish-language comedy boot camp in Mexico City, thanks to a new partnership with Mexico-based Endemol Shine Boomdog. The production company in Mexico is looking to cast upcoming sketch and variety shows there. For the Mexico City boot camp, Endemol Shine Boomdog will …
Letterkenny, which debuted as a webseries in 2013, and became a Canadian TV show in 2015, is now a Hulu Original series. Hulu announced Thursday that, following the acquisition of Crave Original comedy series Letterkenny, the show will return as a Hulu Original for season 7 on Oct. 14, 2019. …
