The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Twitter used to be great, but now is so much greater. — Said no one ever. Ouch. Bad joke. But is it the Worst Twitter Joke Format? You can help decide in this bracket-style competition election, created by Michelle Spies, a Chicago-based contributor to @TheOnion & @Clickhole who also writes for @botnikstudios and @mcsweeneys. Spoiler alert: …
There’s a fun new oral history piece out from ESPN The Magazine today about the late great Garry Shandling and his longtime Sunday basketball games that brought together so many funny people to his home over a couple of decades. “It was ‘Fight Club’ with better jokes,” said Shandling’s writing …
Inside Jokes will premiere on Friday, Nov. 30, 2018, exclusively on Prime Video for Amazon customers in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia and New Zealand. The six-episode series follows up-and-coming comedians in New York and Los Angeles as they pursue their dream of being selected for the prestigious Montreal Just for Laughs Festival New Faces showcase. Specifically: Rosebud …
This week in TV development, we’re taking you around the dial and down the streaming services to get you all caught up. In alphabetical order by network… ABC Untitled half-hour from Robin Thede, executive produced with Kay Cannon and Doug Robinson. Inspired by Thede’s childhood growing up in a trailer …
Super Deluxe the website has died a second time. Turner shuttered the company’s digital comedy pursuit, again; this time, on Oct. 19, 2018, in the wake of the big AT&T merger/acquisition of Time Warner. Super Deluxe shone as an early beacon for alt comedy in 2007 only to die out …
A year after the Upright Citizens Brigade left Chelsea to move their NYC theater up 16 blocks to Hells Kitchen, there’s improv and sketch comedy afoot underneath Gristedes once more. Improv Asylum, based in Boston for 20 years, reopened the joint last weekend. They’re currently offering shows only on Friday …
On the day Conan O’Brien and friends perform in New York City as part of the 2018 New York Comedy Festival, Team Coco has released the premiere date and initial lineup of guests for O’Brien’s podcast Conan O’Brien Needs a Friend debuts on Monday, Nov. 19 with guest Will Ferrell. In a …
Now that the 2018 election results are beginning to sink in, we can all get back to our regularly scheduled ridiculousness. Which means, in the comedy world, wondering if Donald Trump is bad for comedy. A recent debate, sponsored by Intelligence Squared, posed the question. For the Motion: P. J. …
Celebrity Autobiography, the long-running Off Broadway show that’s also played around the world for a decade, will get limited Broadway engagement over four Mondays this fall, starting the week after Thanksgiving. The show, which features celebs reading aloud and acting out the memoirs of other celebs, will have stars such …
Last year’s Comics To Watch showcase was so successful, several of the stand-ups who performed for Team Coco eventually earned spots on Conan in 2018. Will this year’s crop prove just as promising? The ninth annual Comics To Watch at New York Comedy Festival happens Nov. 7 at Carolines on …
