The Definitive Guide to Comedy
And now we cry for the former “crying comedian,” who later gained fame for throwing confetti and enlivening every situation, whether it was a game show, a talk show or a movie full of jackasses. “Rip” Taylor has died. He was 88. Born and raised in Washington, D.C., Charles Elmer “Rip” Taylor …
Congrats to this year’s crop of comedians Variety will toast at Just For Laughs as its 10 Comics to Watch for 2019! They are, with descriptions provided by Variety: Fahim Anwar – Recently seen in the Comedy Central special “Goatface” with his comedy group of the same name, his special “Fahim …
David Spade’s newest late-night TV venture for Comedy Central has a title and a premiere date. Lights Out with David Spade debuts July 29, 2019, on Comedy Central, following The Daily Show with Trevor Noah. Noah’s TDS has gone through a few time-slot partners in the past few years, from …
Keenen Ivory Wayans and his co-stars from In Living Color, including Tommy Davidson, David Alan Grier, Shawn Wayans and Kim Wayans, reunited for a panel retrospective on their influential FOX sketch comedy show from the early 1990s.
What is it about Barrs in America in 2019? I hesitate to give Roseanne any additional press at this point, because as she openly admits in this profile from Geoff Edgers in The Washington Post, “I’m a troll. I’m the queen of the f‑‑‑ing trolls.” The profile’s headline, equally incredulous: …
Jerry O’Connell has filled in before for Wendy Williams on her syndicated daytime TV talk show. Now Jerry O is giving it a try himself. Funny or Die and Debmar-Mercury will produce the three-week test-run of Jerry O, which will air on FOX stations this summer starting Aug. 12, 2019. …
When they came for the comedians, we would not stay silent. Mohanad Elshieky certainly wouldn’t. Elshieky, named one of Conan’s Comics to Watch in 2018 as well as one of Thrillist’s Best Undiscovered Comedians in America last year, revealed that ICE agents boarded his Greyhound bus this morning in Washington …
In just the past year, comedians as big as Bill Cosby, Louis CK and Chris Hardwick have found their careers halted or suspended due to newly surfaced or resurfaced allegations of sexual misconduct. CK admitted his guilt, Cosby denied it but was convicted of rape, while Hardwick has denied allegations …
On tonight’s Full Frontal with Samantha Bee, Bee delivered a special message following up on the backlash she’d received by calling Ivanka Trump a “feckless cunt” on last week’s episode. Bee said she’d tried to reclaim that word by saying it often, but acknowledged that some women don’t want it …
What happens when a Roast Battle vet auditions for America’s Got Talent, but doesn’t tell the audience or the judges that he’s going to roast them for his audition? Watch and see what happened when Alex Hooper did just that on Tuesday night’s episode on NBC. “Oh! That was just …
