The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Who is the better Jerry Seinfeld: Seinfeld himself, or Jimmy Fallon? Fallon challenged Seinfeld to a “stand-up battle” on the Thanksgiving 2017 episode of The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. Really more just a chance to hear some old Seinfeld bits, as well as for Fallon to show off his …
Trae Crowder and his fellow “liberal redneck” comedians Corey Ryan Forrester and Drew Morgan accepted an invitation to perform in the Poconos at The Gathering, a gay naturist retreat. What’s a naturist? They find that out and more in this nine-minute short film presented by Funny or Die. The wellRED fellas …
“For those of you who don’t know me, I am Anthony Anderson from ABC’s blackish.” Roy Wood Jr. from Comedy Central’s The Daily Show with Trevor Noah delivered the keynote speech Wednesday night at the 2017 Radio and TV Correspondents Association Dinner. Wood’s colleague Hasan Minhaj graduated from last year’s …
Kumail Nanjiani hosted the Oct. 14, 2017, episode of Saturday Night Live (season 43, episode 3) and delivered a stand-up comedy monologue that was as funny as it was heartfelt. Much like his critically-acclaimed movie from earlier this year, The Big Sick. Nanjiani touched not only on how his Muslim …
Not since William Shatner’s spoken-word music album became nostalgically and ironically hip in the 1990s have I not known what to make of something like this, but here was Bill Murray, performing a medley of West Side Story tunes alongside his classical music friends on Thursday’s Late Show with Stephen …
Don’t get as excited about the title for this Google Talk as I and others may have. Yes, Brian Regan visited Google for an interview and Q&A session this summer, and Google titled it “How to Make People Laugh.” The interview with Regan doesn’t quite go that deep on the …
Vic and Gene are two guys who sell suits for a living. They may be #notallmen, but they are most definitely Men, and this short film for Super Deluxe explores a day and long night in the lives of these two schmucks. Most definitely Not Safe For Work. Directed by …
During the Emmys, Netflix not only served notice with the number of awards it won in the ceremonies, but also in an extended TV ad showcasing four of its hit series with four of its exclusive A-list stand-up comedians making specials on the streaming giant. You could see Dave Chappelle …
Anything Google’s YouTube can do, Facebook can do, too, and keep it and you confined within Facebook. That seems to be the strategy, if there has been one, to Facebook’s video strategy over the past few years, starting with its own proprietary video platform, to the launch of Facebook Live …
In case you missed it, HBO’s VICE News recently took a look at joke theft through the prism of an ongoing lawsuit by a Twitter user named Robert Alex Kaseberg, who alleges Conan O’Brien and his Team Coco staff on TBS stole jokes from him for use in his monologues. …
