The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Nick Griffin jokes that eating ice cream, or a can of soup, at night as an adult says a lot more about you than it would if you were a kid. So does knowing how much you have in your bank account. Come to think of it, those things might …
On Sunday night’s episode of The Simpsons, the writers had little Lisa give advice to her mom about something or other, using it instead as an opportunity to defend themselves against charges of racism for having a white actor voice an Indian character with a heavily stereotyped accent. “It’s hard …
Jimmy Fallon’s favorite stand-up comedian, Nate Bargatze, returned to The Tonight Show on Thursday night, this time recounting an adventure he took with a friend attempting to climb Mount Rainier in Washington state, and seeing a dead horse along the way. What would you do? Roll the clip!
The Netflix catalog of original programming keeps growing and growing, as the streaming giant has announced two more new comedy series in just the past two days. The first project, Paradise P.D., is an animated look at a poorly-run small-town police department, from the creators of Brickleberry, Waco O’Guin and …
Most people who were fans of the animated cult classic Ren & Stimpy knew that its creator had a troubled past with Nickelodeon, withJohn Kricfalusi getting fired from his own show. And people who worked on the show likely knew that Kricfalusi liked to date younger women. But until BuzzFeed …
For the second year, truTV is partnering with the New York Television Festival to sponsor the truTV Comedy Breakout Initiative, offering up to $25,000 for the winning creator to develop his/her/their pitch into a potential series for the cable network. It’s free to submit. To qualify, you need to submit …
Ryan Reiss knew he’d have a good audience Tuesday night on Late Night with Seth Meyers, because it’s his job to warm them up. In this set, Reiss joked about seeing Russian strippers in New York City, the difference between American football fans and world football fans, and how the …
Trevor Moore and Comedy Central believe Facebook isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Moore will host a live 24-hour talk show onComedy Central Stand-Up’s Facebook on April 19 to promote his newest one-hour comedy special for Comedy Central, Trevor Moore: The Story of Our Times, which will debut at midnight April 20. “Comedy …
Sometimes, it turns out for the best that your big break never broke. Tom Segura told the story on Tuesday’s Late Show with Stephen Colbert about how, more than a decade ago, Segura had booked a nationwide TV commercial spokesman campaign with Subway to appear as the unhealthy brother of …
Erin Jackson made her late-night stand-up debut on Monday’s Conan. She didn’t get to also debut a that new grudgery business idea she talked about, but we understand a lot better why she’d want to get married and some more appropriate single-lady questions for online credit access. It’s bananas! Roll …
