The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Kids say the darnedest things if they can memorize them. And America’s Got Talent had no shame opening its 2016 season with a 6-year-old kid telling jokes. Meet Nathan Bockstahler. He’s cute. He knows how to interact with the judges — asking for one million Legos instead of $1 million …
Last night, presumptive Republican presidential nominee Donald J. Trump (you voted for him) visited Jimmy Kimmel Live, where Kimmel presented a debate challenge from Democratic candidate Bernie Sanders. Trump said yes, but only if Sanders pays up, for charity. “If he paid a nice sum toward a charity, I would …
Haven’t enjoyed a great mashup in ages, so thanks to Robert Dean for making one for the ages, taking Spike’s Bar Rescue and having Jon Taffer tackle the bar from Cheers. That’s all you need to know to enjoy this. Roll the clip!
“Welcome to Negro Night here at the Washington — or as FOX News will report, ‘Two thugs disrupt elegant dinner in D.C.’” And with that, Larry Wilmore was off to the races. So to speak. Wilmore, host of The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore on Comedy Central, creator of The …
I told you last week that the audiences at the 2016 Moontower Comedy Festival in Austin loved the pre-show videos that screened before every live showcase, and here’s the video local sponsors Chaotic Moon Studios made for the occasion. It features a stand-up comedian getting back at a heckler with …
On tonight’s season finale of Dr. Ken on ABC, Ken Jeong’s title character makes his stand-up debut at the Laugh Factory. In real life, Jeong made his TV debut on ABC’s The View, and this week he revisited the scene of the crime — where he won the show’s search …
You knew Joan Laurer as Chyna, the bodybuilder who broke through the gender lines of professional wrestling and became a superstar with the WWE when it was still known as the WWF in the late 1990s. Billed as “The Ninth Wonder of the World,” Chyna became the first and only …
Louis CK appeared on Monday morning’s edition of The Howard Stern Show on SiriusXM, wherein he acknowledged that he needed the publicity now to help spur sales of his DIY-TV drama, Horace and Pete. CK had sprung the show’s first episode online on his website in January as a complete …
Promoting his new movie, Barbershop: The Next Cut, Cedric The Entertainer fielded a question from VH1’s Sway about how comedy has evolved. The o.g. Original Kings of Comedy alum — who’s touring now with a crew of D.L. Hughley, George Lopez, Eddie Griffin and Charlie Murphy for The Comedy Get …
Forget about taking honorary degrees from Bill Cosby? Why not take something away from Cosby that matters? That’s what Wanda Sykes suggested when she sat down with Conan O’Brien for Tuesday’s episode of Conan. Roll the clip!
