The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Kevin Schwartz, a 49-year-old agoraphobe, finally got out of his home in Madison, Wisc., when his therapist encouraged him to visit the comedy club a few blocks down the road. Now here Schwartz is telling one-liners on America’s Got Talent. What a country.
If at first you don’t succeed, Sethward failed failed again. This performance artist comedian flashed the audience last summer as a caterpillar turning into a butterfly. This summer, America’s Got Talent let him back onstage. Not once, but twice. First, he tried performing as a giraffe. And later as a …
If you combined Mark Normand with Joe List, would you get Captain America? We’ll never know. But this Steven Rogers made his network TV debut on Friday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert, confidently joking about his own battles with anxiety. Roll the clip.
Letterkenny, which debuted as a webseries in 2013, and became a Canadian TV show in 2015, is now a Hulu Original series. Hulu announced Thursday that, following the acquisition of Crave Original comedy series Letterkenny, the show will return as a Hulu Original for season 7 on Oct. 14, 2019. …
Conan O’Brien recently took Team Coco down under to Australia, and he’s brought back one of their stand-up comedians to perform for you. This is Rhys Nicholson, who believes that lies can sustain a long-term relationship. Making sacrifices for the other person helps, too. Unless he’s lying about that, also. …
Chris Gethard is returning to MNN. This time, Gethard won’t be presiding over his own comedic band of merry mayhem, but instead will present hours of worth of pure, uncensored funny from comedians he enjoys. It’s called Chris Gethard Presents, and will Wednesdays at 11 p.m. on the Manhattan News …
If a Comedy Central Roast can propel Donald Trump’s shady businessman career into the presidency, then what, pray tell, will it do for Alec Baldwin? Find out later in 2019. Comedy Central announced today that the Comedy Central Roast of Alec Baldwin (#BaldwinRoast) will take place in New York with the …
Bill Hader truly loves Dateline NBC and its star correspondent, Keith Morrison. Hader knows years-old stories from Dateline verbatim, and says in this clip for Sunday Today, that he would walk the halls of Saturday Night Live just slipping into Morrison’s voice before the SNL writers decided why not try …
“When I was growing up, there was nobody that looked like me on television, so I kind of want to be the first one that’s doing all that. I want people to be able to look at what I’m doing.” That’s what stand-up comedian Ryan Niemiller told Simon Cowell at …
NBC announced today 40 comedy acts vying for the $250,000 prize package and the opportunity to perform at the 2020 Just for Laughs Festival, who’ll be competing on this summer’s inaugural season of Bring the Funny. Bring the Funny premieres July 9, 2019, after America’s Got Talent. Amanda Seales hosts, …
