The Definitive Guide to Comedy
When Josh Gondelman isn’t writing for HBO’s Last Week Tonight with John Oliver, he’s performing stand-up comedy across America or inspiring Twitter followers around the world with his pep talks. On Late Night with Seth Meyers, Gondelman joked about his new marriage and the new pug he and his wife …
For the first time, a stand-up comedian from Finland performed on American TV. Call him Ismo! Ismo Leikola is a big deal over in Finland, and moved to America after winning the Laugh Factory’s Funniest Person in the World contest. Ismo made his his American late-night TV debut Monday on Conan, …
Catch this exclusive sneak peek at Rachel Feinstein’s performance on the new truTV series Laff Mobb’s Laff Tracks, which acts out comedians’ stand-up acts. Here you can see the cast act out Feinstein’s routine about her mother thinking she can connect with black Americans. Roll the clip! Laff Mobb’s Laff …
Apple’s launch into original TV/streaming programming continues, with the announcement late last week that Kristen Wiig will star in a half-hour sitcom for them, executive produced by Reese Witherspoon and her production shingle. Wiig starred for seven seasons on Saturday Night Live and earned four Emmy nominations during that time. …
Amazon, in the wake of ousting its programming chief for sexual harassment and more, is moving forward without some of its better-loved female-fronted programming. Say what? I know. And yet. Amazon has renewed The Tick, while cancelling Tig Notaro’s One Mississippi after two seasons, and I Love Dick and Jean-Claude …
If you miss The Soup, and you particularly missed Joel McHale, then Netflix has great news for you. The Joel McHale Show with Joel McHale, a new weekly topical half-hour series, debuts Feb. 18, 2018, with 13 episodes ordered. It’ll tape on Thursdays and air new episodes Sundays. The official …
“I’m at work right now. Does this blow anybody else’s mind?” Jeff Dye wonders why any woman would call him immature, when stand-up comedy is what he does, professionally. Dye explained in this performance Friday on The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Roll the clip.
Mo Welch dreamed of playing in the WNBA, but performing stand-up comedy on Conan isn’t half-bad, right? Especially if you can weave in a song about the WNBA into your comedy act. Roll the clip!
On last night’s episode of Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Bee opened her weekly TBS show by examining how there’s already a backlash against the #MeToo movement, or as Bee jokingly calls the backlash, the #YouTooLoud movement. Bee said the “Shitty Media Men” list that was so popular and anonymous …
Tiffany Haddish loves Groupon so much, the online discount company decided to return the favor and make Haddish the company spokesperson! As the company explained yesterday: “Tiffany Haddish likes us. No, she really, really likes us. We were tickled when we heard her tell a story about taking certain A-listers …
