The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Nick Thune‘s hometown Seattle Seahawks might not have sent the stand-up comedian off on a victory tour this week, but off to tour he shall go, nevertheless. Thune will have friends Kate Berlant and Ben Kronberg opening for him on a tour that kicks off Wednesday in Portland, Maine, and …
My father’s family is from Boston; my comedy career began in Seattle. My alliances, therefore, remain neutral as an arbiter — at least at the start — of this Super Bowl face-off among comedians for ESPN’s “Enemy Territory.” In two days of segments for SportsCenter on your TV and online …
Louis CK sent out a sincerely funny email on Monday to his fans, letting them know that the blizzard named Juno had forced him to prematurely cancel his fourth and final planned performance tonight at Madison Square Garden. He wrote Monday afternoon: “Well I didn’t know you could call a …
Tig Notaro has the first and more dramatic documentaries about her recent life debuting this month at the Sundance Film Festival. Tig will screen five times this week at Sundance. It covers a trying period in Notaro’s life in 2012, when, as the film’s description notes: “Having just recovered from …
Betty White turned 93 on Saturday. To celebrate her, White’s cast and crew from TV Land’s Hot In Cleveland surprised her on the studio lot with a flash mob hula dance. Enjoy.
The MTA runs New York City’s subway system, for what that’s worth. The funny things you may see or experience on a subway ride are another story, and NYC-based TV shows, movies and comedians have enjoyed this platform to share them with us over the years. Last week was a …
“Comedy is not cool. It shouldn’t be cool, in my opinion. Every time it gets cool, that’s bad…it should never be cool. Comedy is not the winner. Comedy is not the guy that gets laid. It’s the guy that doesn’t get laid. Comedy is not the gorgeous girl, comedy is …
Chris Wade produced this video piece for Slate on four of the people he thinks you should know in comedy who you may not always see in front of the camera. Who’d he pick out? Jonathan Krisel, writer/producer/director on such projects as IFC’s Portlandia, Comedy Central’s Kroll Show, SNL digital …
His latest stand-up comedy special eschews color, either literally onscreen or indirectly via color commentary cutaway shots of the audience. Bill Burr’s “I’m Sorry You Feel That Way,” new this month to Netflix, is a stark black-and-white production. Look at Burr. Hear what he’s telling you. Watch as he acts …
Sometimes alternative comedy isn’t alternative at all, but rather an insane looking-glass mirror of what mainstream stand-up comedy is. In Dan Klein‘s “This is Comedy” special, he could have put the quotations marks anywhere, really. “This” “is” “Comedy” “special.” It’s an hourlong take on stand-up comedy from the perspective of …
