The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The greatest unanswered question in short-form improv will return to TV this summer as The CW has revived the game show that’s not a game show (unless you consider improvised comedy a game), Whose Line is it Anyway? Wayne Brady, Ryan Stiles and Colin Mochrie will return, too, as primetime …
Mr. George Wallace is an all-star comedian, and this weekend, he’ll be celebrated by his fellow comedians as a Comedy Icon during the Centric Comedy All-Stars special. Wallace told The Comic’s Comic it’s more of a lifetime achievement award. You can see what it actually is when host Bill Bellamy, …
Warning. The year is 2013. You’re about to be transported back 25 years to 1988, when Marc Maron appeared on the TV program, Rascals Comedy Hour. You can tell it’s 1988 because he noted at one point in his set that it was two weeks following the 19th anniversary of …
Kevin McDonald is a solo act in 2013, but the Kids in the Hall comedian isn’t alone. McDonald is touring North America, teaching aspiring comedians how to write their own sketches, and also sometimes performing alongside them in improv theaters. McDonald spoke backstage with The Comic’s Comic at The PIT …
Over the past week, Dave Chappelle has spent several late nights of his most recent trip to New York City dropping in at the Comedy Cellar to work the crowd and work out new comedic material. Over the past few months, Chris Rock has done likewise, albeit more methodically on …
Midnights will get a little more weird this fall on TBS. Stand-up comedian Pete Holmes, who you may know by voice more readily via his popular podcast, “You Made It Weird,” or his long-running stint as the talking spokebaby for E*Trade. TBS is giving him four weeks this fall in …
One of these seasons, a comedian will emerge as a viable candidate to win Dancing with the Stars, right? Right? After all, Bradley Cooper and Jennifer Lawrence just made dancing funny and successful in the movies with Silver Linings Playbook. So how will D.L. Hughley and Andy Dick fare this spring on …
Phyllis Diller, who died in 2012 at the age of 95, helped blaze a trail for generations of funny women not only in stand-up comedy, but also in TV and film. “Just as people say Ginger Rogers did everything that Fred Astaire did, but backward and in high heels, Phyllis …
Did you hear the one about the satirical publication that live-Tweeted a joke on Oscars night that won hundreds of favorites and ReTweets, only to vanish an hour later after many more voices called out said publication for being tasteless, misogynist and even racist, and then prompt an extremely rare …
Televised sketch comedy in the Internet video era has found its match in this current crop of Comedy Central series. Key & Peele is between seasons, but that’s not stopping Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele from putting out new topical sketches online. New today is this video, “Ballbusters,” in which …
