The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The current tour of Steve Martin and Martin Short is billed officially as “Steve Martin with the Steep Canyon Rangers & Martin Short in a Very Stupid Conversation.” But the audience who paid to see two of The Three Amigos on Friday night in San Antonio received a special treat …
The third annual Funny Or Die Presents Oddball Comedy & Curiosity Festival 2015 will get a later start in late summer, but run through October and include Aziz Ansari and Amy Schumer as its top-billed stars on all of the dates. Joining Ansari and Schumer for this go-around, a cast of …
J.R. Havlan won eight Emmy Awards writing for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart and currently writes for The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon. His boss is on vacation for the week, and Havlan will try to earn some extra cash gambling in Las Vegas. As in millions of dollars …
Last week, President Barack Obama visited comedian Marc Maron’s garage in the hills outside Los Angeles to record a podcast. This week, Stephen Colbert took over a public access cable-TV program in a small town south of Detroit and interviewed the program’s regular hosts as well as superstar rapper Eminem. …
Before anyone else could claim to be “the pit bull of comedy,” before anyone else turned anger directly into laughs, Jack Carter stood tall amongst all comers in the comedy game, ever ready with a bitter supply of hilarious one-liners and bits. Carter died over the weekend at his home …
All lists ranking or otherwise grouping the funniest and/or hottest comedians are inherently biased — subject to the whims of the list-maker. And yet, online media outlets continue to pump out the lists, in part because comedians remain so driven by ego and insecurity that they’ll certainly share any list …
Hasan Minhaj describes and reflects upon his winning audition for The Daily Show with Jon Stewart in a scene from his one-man show, Homecoming King, as seen here in Jessica Pilot’s webseries, “This is Stand-Up.” See more of “This is Stand-Up” in The Village Voice.
Comedy Central kicks off #JonVoyage, aka “Your Month of Zen,” today as an epic tribute to Jon Stewart’s 16-year reign supreme in late-night TV as host of The Daily Show, which he’ll close out on Aug. 6, 2015. It covers multiple platforms — online streaming, satellite radio, cable TV and mobile …
Pam Matteson, a stand-up comedian and impersonator who performed in the 1988 movie Punchline, has died after her third bout with cancer in the past decade. Matteson was 61. Born Sept. 23, 1953, the Brooklyn native made her way toward Hollywood by the early 1980s, where she scored bit parts …
Classic role reversal going on here, as Margaret Cho stars in a brand-new Funny or Die video that imagines “if women ran the writers room of the hottest new network sitcom.” Of course, it’s also hilarious that in this parallel universe, that sitcom is The DUFF and The DILF. You’ll …
