The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Iliza Shlesinger has a new stand-up hour-plus debuting this weekend on Netflix, and to celebrate/promote it, the former Last Comic champ performed on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Now that Shlesinger is in her 30s, she’d like to be more serious about her dating experiences. Now if only she …
Alingon Mitra made a big splash last summer on NBC’s Last Comic Standing, and for this performance on Monday night’s episode of Conan, he once more tells us about his own issues with gay athletes and gay marriage. Which isn’t so much first-hand. Then again, he doesn’t know why people …
You knew Kevin Hart would bring the energy and enthusiasm when he hosted Saturday Night Live for the second time, but would he, the cast and the writers bring the funny to go with it as we kicked off the 2015 portion of this 40th anniversary season? To the recap! …
Remember when CBS announced two months of guest hosts for The Late Late Show to kick off 2015 and couldn’t seem to find a single woman capable enough to carry out the duties by herself? Well, consider that rectified. Whitney Cummings is a new addition to the guest-host rotation, taking …
The second episode of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central took off the gloves, “Kept it 100” as Wilmore wants us to turn into a catchphrase, and left no doubt that Wilmore believes Bill Cosby is guilty of serial rape of dozens of women over the past …
Betty White turned 93 on Saturday. To celebrate her, White’s cast and crew from TV Land’s Hot In Cleveland surprised her on the studio lot with a flash mob hula dance. Enjoy.
The MTA runs New York City’s subway system, for what that’s worth. The funny things you may see or experience on a subway ride are another story, and NYC-based TV shows, movies and comedians have enjoyed this platform to share them with us over the years. Last week was a …
Johnny Beehner made his network television debut on Friday night’s Late Show with David Letterman, and Beehner let us know what his life is like with a wife, a daughter and another baby on the way. Lots of healthy food, not so lots of phone sex. Roll the clip.
What do they say about New York City: There are eight million stories, and sometimes it seems as though eight million of the people telling them think they’re comedians? No, that’s not it. It is a fact, though, that America’s biggest city is also its biggest comedy mecca. Hollywood may …
Phoebe Robinson made her debut on Late Night with Seth Meyers on Thursday, and lets us know what it was like to meet her boyfriend’s white family. More importantly, perhaps, Robinson wants to reinforce for us the point of interracial dating — it’s not about answering cultural questions, but about …
