The Definitive Guide to Comedy
How’s your Hinglish? That’s not a rhetorical question. Because Aditi Mittal, the first Indian woman to get her own Netflix hour comedy special, freely mixes English and Hindi in Things They Wouldn’t Let Me Say. Most of her work translates easily. But as I wrote in my review on Decider: …
Is Joe Mande using the power of “The Secret” with the title of his first Netflix hour comedy special? Not exactly. As I wrote in my review on Decider: The conceit, in fact, is that Mande wants to win the (fictitious) “American Humour Award,” and before we see him perform any …
Sarah Tiana has appeared regularly on @midnight, and previously on the panels for E!’s Chelsea Lately and CMT’s The Josh Wolf Show, but as she notes on her website, those are perhaps the only things you know about Tiana. She also has written for many Comedy Central Roasts, for Jeff Ross’s The …
First things first: The best performances from Wednesday night’s debut New Faces showcases in Montreal came from Taylor Tomlinson, Martin Urbano, Preacher Lawson, Sam Jay and James Austin Johnson. Secondly: The early showcase Wednesday (Group 1) was otherwise solid from top to bottom, despite a lackluster opening by host Sugar Sammy, …
Jen Kirkman comes out singing and swinging in her newest stand-up hour. As Kirkman told the audience Tuesday night during the weeklong run of her new show, “Irrational Thoughts,” at Montreal’s Just For Laughs festival: “I like to come out singing because I feel like the point of performing, for me, …
“Have you ever seen a saxophone opening a stand up comedy set? I don’t think so. Anything can happen on Stand Up on the Spot!” Jeremiah Watkins, the host of Jeff Ross Presents Stand-Up On the Spot, made his entrance Tuesday night playing the sax while his sidekick, Avery Pearson, …
As part of its ongoing promotion for the network’s new drama about stand-up comedy, I’m Dying Up Here, Showtime has rolled out solo stand-up specials for each of the three comedians playing comedians in the series. The third and final of these specials, Erik Griffin: The Ugly Truth, premiered earlier in …
It’s perhaps fitting that in this era of too much comedy, the first stand-up to deliver two new comedy specials at the same time would be Ari Shaffir. As I wrote for Decider, it’s an audacious move: No, if it’s audacious you seek, look no further than the guy who …
FOX has used recent summers to test out shows for potential syndication in both daytime and late-night, with The Wendy Williams Show and Page Six TV being the most notable success stories so far. In between, Real Housewives of New York‘s Bethenny Frankel also earned a talk show this way, …
Dylan Brody looks like he could be Dana Gould’s big brother. Both in life and in comedy. They’re both funnier and smarter than even the above-average stand-up comedian, still funny more than three decades after they started hitting the comedy club stages, and perhaps more appreciated by their peers than …
