The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Preacher Lawson won the 2016 Seattle International Comedy Competition, so what’s next for him? How about America’s Got Talent in 2017?! Here’s his initial audition before the judges, which prompted them to ask for an encore already. Roll the clip!
Is that Ed Helms? Or is that Ted Nelms? A little bit of both, as Helms dressed up in disguise for a fantasy sequence of a comedy sketch reuniting the gang from The Daily Show with Jon Stewart for a special episode of The Late Show with Stephen Colbert. But …
Comedy Central’s “Comics to Watch” showcases, which had featured up-and-coming stand-ups in recent years at the New York Comedy Festival, is now rebranded as “Up Next” and will debut at Comedy Central’s own festival next weekend in San Francisco. These eight comedians selected to perform at Colossal Clusterfest also will …
Mike Vecchione may look like a police officer. But that’s of little to no help to the comedian when he calls on the cops to help track down his stolen vehicle. Especially if and when they show up on horseback. Which I know is crazy but true because I’ve seen …
Joe, Murr, Q and Sal already have five-and-a-half seasons of embarrassing each other for fun and profit on truTV’s Impractical Jokers, with the sixth-season midseason premiere finding them in Hawaii this July. And a seventh season of 26 episodes coming in 2018. But this fall, you’ll also be able to …
Ellen DeGeneres has received a Presidential Medal of Freedom and hosted the Oscars, all while reigning over daytime TV as host of Ellen, but the one thing she hasn’t done since launching Ellen in 2003 was record and release a new stand-up special. That’s changing now. Netflix announced they’d lured …
Erik Griffin plays one of the comedians in Showtime’s fictional re-enactment of the 1970s comedy scene, I’m Dying Up Here. But back in present-day 2017, Griffin chose to let the audience at The Late Late Show with James Corden know exactly what he thinks about the new live-action movie version …
After Jon Stewart left The Daily Show in the summer of 2015, much was made of his four-year contract with HBO he signed a few months later. Stewart would produce daily animated comedy clips, still commenting on the headlines and the news, only now in cartoons, for HBO’s digital HBO …
Seaton Smith’s proper debut on Conan got bumped by a few weeks, thanks to spillover time from a previous guest. But the wait was worth it for Smith, who joked about growing up his whole life watching Conan O’Brien in late-night TV. Smith got everyone else’s attention with a stand-up …
Seven more weeks! Seven more weeks! Comedy Central has extended the inaugural season of The President Show for an additional seven episodes, Comedy Central President Kent Alterman announced today. The late-night satire of President Trump, starring Anthony Atamanuik, airs late-night Thursdays after The Daily Show. “Whether we’re witnessing the end …
