The Definitive Guide to Comedy
For his 60th birthday in 2017, Rich Vos received a roast for a lifetime at The Comedy Cellar’s Village Underground, a venue that his friends joked, he can’t even get booked at! The Vos Roast was uploaded in 2018 to Vimeo On Demand. Now it’s free! As his wife and …
There’s a new stand-up showcase series to keep you company during the coronavirus quarantine, thanks to Comedy Central and Refinery29. CC x R29: Taking the Stage, a short-form stand-up showcase, premiered Tuesday on Comedy Central’s Stand-Up YouTube channel. CC x R29: Speak Up, a series featuring intimate one-on-one conversations with stand-up …
The Sandman is here to cheer us up, and perhaps even more importantly, shout out the need to support our doctors and nurses fighting to keep as many of us alive as possible through the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic. Adam Sandler performed a new original song on Thursday’s Tonight Show. Behold! …
Moves like Jagger? Jon Daly’s got ’em! The comedian and actor, directed by Jake Fogelnest, learned the choreography Mick Jagger strutted around to for The Rolling Stones 1981 single, “Start Me Up,” and presto change-o some of the lyrics, and here we go. Start it up! And if you need …
The folks at Time Life have launched an official Robin Williams YouTube channel today to celebrate the late great comedian who died in 2014. There’s only a handful of clips on it as of today, including bits from his 2002 special, Live on Broadway, about golf and Koko the gorilla, …
Before news broke that Ari Shaffir’s planned comedy special taping had been canceled, but after Shaffir had received plenty of blowback for his social media trolling about Kobe Bryant’s death, his comedy pals Tom Segura and Bert Kreischer talked about trying to put their friend’s bad public behavior into context. …
Most late-night talk-show chats are not designed to be newsworthy. Guests agree to come on to promote their new or next gigs, and the hosts are just happy to have a continuous flow of new guests to promote said gigs and fill up airtime and make us laugh or help …
Finally. Finally! James Adomian has the real-deal U.S. Senator from Vermont, Bernie Sanders, sitting with him for a “Bernie vs. Bernie” or really, a Bernie For All. A very special edition of Adomian’s podcast series, The Underculture. Roll the clip!
Well, ain’t this a surprise. Eddie Murphy sat down with Jerry Seinfeld outside of their regularly-scheduled Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee for a discussion moderated by Joy Reid to talk about comedy for another 40 minutes. Who would they put on the Mount Rushmore of Comedy? That’s a question I’ve …
Stand-up comedians love starting or ending their sets with thunderous applause. But what about an honest-to-goodness earthquake? That’s what happened to Atsuko Okatsuka on July 5, 2019, when a 7.1-magnitude quake began rumbling just after she took the stage at The Ice House in Pasadena, Calif. The quake was even …
