The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Matt Farley has written more than 18,000 songs in the past eight years, but his biggest performance came Tuesday night when Jimmy Fallon took up the “Suggestion Box” offer of a gig by Papa Razzi and the Photogs. So here was Farley performing his song, “Used to be a Pizza …
Years before 30 Rock hit NBC and won all of the Emmys, Dino Stamatopoulos, Stephen Colbert, Scott Adsit, Robert Smigel and Michael Stoyanov wrote a sitcom pilot in the 1990s starring themselves and a then-unknown Tina Fey, set behind the scenes of a show much like Saturday Night Live. This has to …
There’s something so assured, so steady about Tommy Johnagin onstage. The guy’s a joke murderer, with clinical precision, striking time and time again, even if the material seems too “edgy” for a TV audience. Such was the case again Tuesday night, as Johnagin performed on The Late Late Show with …
Dan Naturman returned to Conan on Tuesday night, once more a new uncle, fresh with jokes about how much simpler a job being an uncle is than a father. Especially to just not be bad at it. Naturman also joked about the difference between texting a potential mate and calling …
In case you missed it over the weekend, Comedy Central debuted the first-ever televised edition of The Goddamn Comedy Jam, the live concert held monthly in Los Angeles. Comedians tell stories and stand-up jokes that relate to a song of their choosing, then belt out that song with a full …
The Comedy Central Roast of Rob Lowe hates Ann Coulter so much more than anyone else, the website doesn’t even include her in its photo gallery of dais participants! As you may have heard (read: read) from eyewitness reports inside Saturday night’s taping of the #LoweRoast in Culver City, Calif., …
The Tonight Show under Jimmy Fallon has demonstrated a comforting throwback trend when it comes to stand-up comedy, in allowing or convincing (whatever the case may be) stand-up comedians to actually perform a few minutes onstage proper instead of (but also in addition to) sitting on the panel to chat …
How many stand-up comedians open their sets with operatic singing? Matteo Lane, that’s who. Lane used his vocals to voice his sexuality to his father, as he jokes opening his set Thursday night on Late Night with Seth Meyers. As if you were still questioning him after hearing his voice. …
Comedy Central continues its tradition of mashing up comedians, friends and random celebrities and infamous people for the dais of its annual celebrity roasts for this weekend’s planned Roast of Rob Lowe. The full, final lineup of roasters toasting Lowe? David Spade will preside over the #LoweRoast, with comedians Jeff …
HBO’s comedy brand is offering something old, something new, something borrowed and something blue for Fall 2016, announcing new editions of Tracey Ullman’s signature sketch comedy, a revamped Def Comedy showcase series from Russell Simmons, plus stand-up hours from Silicon Valley star T.J. Miller, Pete Holmes and Jerrod Carmichael. Let’s …
