The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The first time I saw Drew Michael perform live, the experience at QED in Astoria felt surreal, like an out-of-body experience. So seeing his comedy, devoid of an actual audience, performed in a virtual void on HBO, doesn’t come as any shock to me. It might you, though, when you …
Marina Franklin lays down a whopper of an opening line in her performance from Wednesday night’s Conan. “I know that’s a lot to tell an audience that doesn’t know me.” It makes a lot more sense once she explains herself. Roll the clip!
We already have one stand-up comedian in the semifinals of America’s Got Talent 2018. Can we make it two for two? Samuel J. Comroe performed on Tuesday night’s live show on NBC, and will find out his fate tonight. You can still place votes to tip the scales in his …
For Netflix’s next new talk show, they’re not messing around with weekly episode releases. No, no. For Norm Macdonald Has A Show, you’ll get all 10 at once. Macdonald and sidekick Adam Eget will welcome hourlong conversations with Drew Barrymore, David Spade, Judge Judy, David Letterman, Jane Fonda, Chevy Chase, M. …
Emmy Blotnick used all those hours watching comic book superhero movies figuring out how to make her boyfriend her ex-boyfriend. This might be the first TV credit to include the phrase “drowning in dick” AND a champagne toast from the host. Thanks, Conan O’Brien. And The Rock. Roll the clip!
MTV is still with the Video Music Awards in 2018, and they brought out Kevin Hart and Tiffany Haddish to open up the proceedings Monday night on live TV with dueling zingers, curse words and even a flubbed joke about who Tiff wants to smash. Oh, and Kev told Trump …
Twitter, like other social media platforms, has a huge legitimacy problem. Nobody is minding the store, so to speak, to separate the lies from the truth, the facts from the fiction. How’s Twitter responding in August 2018? With a humorous TV ad campaign. Starring Greg Barris. The campaign is called …
Talk shows are going to have to try harder to break through the massive programming offerings of Netflix. Chelsea Handler couldn’t do it. And now the streaming giant has broken off both The Break with Michelle Wolf and The Joel McHale Show, both of which had just debuted earlier this …
Dusty Slay made such an impression with his debut as a New Face in Montreal last month that he’s already gotten an invite to perform on The Tonight Show. Here Slay jokes about negotiating with Goodwill, and how the wardrobe makes the man. He likes to wave a lot, too. …
Tonight, Hasan Minhaj makes his final appearance as a correspondent on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah, filing his own take on Moviepass and subscription-based services. What’s next for Minhaj? Most immediately, a late-summer stand-up comedy tour. 8/18 – MORRISTOWN, NJ 7PM 9:30PM 8/19 – PITTSBURGH, PA GET TIX 8/24 – MIAMI, FL GET …
