The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Comedy Central has been on a hot streak of late. The cable channel has led the resurgence of sketch comedy on TV — launching Key and Peele, Kroll Show, and Inside Amy Schumer — expanded its grip on young viewership of late-night with @midnight, won over critics with series that defy categorization such …
We’re in the final month of David Letterman’s late-night TV reign, and while Billy Crystal won’t be Letterman’s last guest (although he actually was Jay Leno’s first and last!), Crystal did kick things up a notch or two or more with a musical tribute to Letterman’s sunrise and sunset on …
After swinging his big dildo around Coachella over the weekend (you’ll have to look at Eric Andre’s Instagram for that), Eric Andre burst out of a pinata on Monday night’s Conan to make even bigger and more relevant news. There will be a fourth season of The Eric Andre Show …
Want to see a taping of With Bob and David, coming soon to Netflix? Tickets just went on sale minutes ago, via this link. Two tapings each on April 15, 21, 25 and 30, at Andrita Studios in Los Angeles. Tickets are free but going quickly! “We are a little …
Baron Vaughn is a stand-up comedian and actor whom I’ve described on this site before as “a quintuple threat” because of his multitude of capabilities onstage and onscreen. Vaughn appeared on the big screen in Black Dynamite and Cloverfield, on the small screen in USA’s Fairly Legal, and now in the …
In 2007, Stephanie Courtney was a regular performer with The Groundlings and booking small parts in TV commercials, but you likely had no idea who the 37-year-old actress was. Then Courtney filmed her first TV spot for Progressive Insurance as a saleswoman named “Flo.” Now you know. But it took …
Stand-up showcases aren’t just for cable TV anymore. A new series from Comedy Dynamics, Coming To The Stage, will spotlight aspiring comedians on a variety of streaming platforms when it debuts in May. Dan Levy hosts the six-episode series, which features a couple of comedians in each half-hour, beginning May …
It’s OK to approach Oxygen’s Funny Girls with at least a bit of apprehension. Billed as a “docu-reality” series about six aspiring stand-up comedians too young to see the title as wordplay on the 1964 Broadway musical and 1968 movie that starred Barbra Streisand, but old enough to already know that …
Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Jon Stewart happened to be on vacation last week when the network announced correspondent Trevor Noah would replace Stewart as anchor later this year. So Monday night’s episode was Stewart’s first chance to address the upcoming transition, as well as the backlash and the …
The Dave Chappelle comeback is now complete. After touring with Funny or Die’s summer Oddball Festival amphitheater tour, holding down a residency at Radio City Music Hall and more than a year of theater dates across North America, Chappelle recorded his stand-up for a special over the weekend at Austin …
