The Definitive Guide to Comedy
Bassem Youssef left a career as a heart surgeon to become a successful comedian in Egypt, with a talk show the likes of Jon Stewart’s the garnered tens of millions of viewers until he had to flee. So flee he did. To Hollywood. The kids at CollegeHumor have some questions …
Surprise! It’s a brand-new edition of Between Two Ferns with Zach Galifianakis, with guests Jerry Seinfeld and Cardi B! “What’s next in lazy car-based non-comedy?” Roll it!
In case you missed it, VICE News shipped up to Boston this spring to talk to bookers for three local colleges — Emerson, Simmons and Lesley — about how they decide which comedians to bring to campus, and what kind of expectations they lay down for the stand-ups. It also …
May may have been mental health awareness month, but if the first half of June has reminded us, even celebrities need to be reminded they are loved. Anyone can suffer from depression. All of us need to take care of ourselves mentally as well as physically. The Child Mind Institute has …
Samuel J. Comroe has won the San Francisco Comedy Competition as well as a contest run by Ricky Gervais, but the comedian got his biggest audience yet auditioning Tuesday for America’s Got Talent. Comroe joked about the time his parents sent him to Tourettes camp. Roll the clip!
Sethward is a performance artist of a comedian, who likes to dress up as animals. At least from what we’ve seen of him on TV these past two summers. This Tuesday night on America’s Got Talent, the audience and judges saw even more of him, as Sethward flashed his junk …
Is there ever an appropriate time to look back at the life and legacy of Robin Williams without feeling sad at how it all ended? Whether you’re a “too soon” sort of person or not, this summer you’re getting two chances to remember Robin, with a new HBO documentary and …
Jimmy Fallon didn’t surprise students in Parkland, Fla., on Sunday, so much as he made good on a promise he’d made to some of them following a meeting with them during the March For Our Lives protest for gun reform. Fallon showed up on Sunday to deliver a special commencement …
The 2018 season of America’s Got Talent kicked off tonight, and Oceanside comedian Vicki Barbolak enjoyed her first moment in the spotlight with this winning audition, in which she charmed the judges and audience with a bit about conjugal visits at prison, the problems with finding a proper bra in …
Sadly, I couldn’t make it out to Los Angeles this Mother’s Day for the all-star comedy tribute to The Comedy Store’s Mitzi Shore, who passed away in April after a long illness. Thankfully, though, her son, comedian Pauly Shore, has shared this video he put together for her memorial. I …
