The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The most recent Republican presidential debate began on such an unpresidential note, that even though it happened on Thursday night, all of the late-night comedy shows still wanted to address it come Monday. Most made basic jokes. The Nightly Show with Larry Wilmore saw the bigger picture, though. Dick jokes …
Steve Martin remains a great showman after all these years, and whether you want to nitpick about whether he has or hasn’t performed stand-up in the past 35 years and what constitutes stand-up exactly, but it’s great to see Martin entertaining the people live. And that’s exactly what he did …
Chris Rock wasted no time addressing the #OscarsSoWhite talk from the moment he walked onstage to host the 2016 Academy Awards on Sunday night. Rock also had his writers whip up multiple video sketches, a gambit for a meta-Clueless joke involving Stacey Dash and Black History Month, a play off …
Tracy Morgan surprised us all with his continued comeback, starring in two different Oscars spoofs on Sunday night — once during the awards telecast, in a parody of The Danish Girl (eating a danish, because WWTMD); then, during the Jimmy Kimmel Live After-The-Oscars Special, starring in the fictional follow-up to …
Paul F. Tompkins recently visited the Big Think, and shared his thoughts on how political correctness influences comedy. In short, tastes change, and comedians always need to adapt to changing times. “Otherwise you’re irrelevant,” Tompkins said. To wit, he also said, in part: “I would say in most cases, audiences …
If you watch TV on a TV, then you undoubtedly see the law-firm ads seeking patients with mesothelioma. These lawyers hope to win huge class-action settlements against companies responsible for inflicting people with the rare asbestos-related cancer that currently lacks a cure. So if you have mesothelioma, then you’re already …
Before the third season of Broad City premieres tonight on Comedy Central, Estelle Caswell and Caroline Framke at Vox.com enjoyed looking back on past episodes and escapades of Abbi and Ilana, and discovering how the show has incorporated callbacks and Easter eggs for even more jokes their most discerning fans …
He may have lingered in the background on the Magic Mike movies, but Gabriel Iglesias gets center stage on this episode of SPIKE TV’s Lip Sync Battle versus Randy Couture. Here’s a snippet of “Fluffy” moving his lips and his body to that old Color Me Badd hit, “I Wanna …
Marie Cecile Anderson and Katy Frame, the musical duo known as Reformed Whores, released a brand-new music video today for their song, “Eating Out.” If you like it, there’s more where that came from, in a new CD coming out in March, “Don’t Beat Around the Bush.” And if you …
Long before Portlandia was jokingly keeping the dream of the 1990s alive in Portland, Dave Anderson was keeping the Rose City weirdly comfortable for dreamers of all stripes. A quick-witted amiable voice for a generation who woke up watching him on TV, drove home from work listening to him on …
