The Definitive Guide to Comedy
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 …
Short-form comedy segments in late-night TV all are the rage now, as IFC becomes the third cable channel to jump into the field, announcing today that its Comedy Crib collection of more than two dozen webseries will begin airing on TV come Fall 2016. The weekly half-hour episodes of Comedy …
Jerry Seinfeld booked two new comedy dates with Margaret Cho today. One for all of us with Internet access, and one just for the crowd upset with one of Cho’s shows last month at the Stress Factory in New Brunswick, N.J. TMZ got its hands on an email the Stress …
Fullscreen announced its launching its own ad-free On Demand service, targeting the YouTube generation with a variety of movies, webseries, TV shows and more, starting April 26, 2016, with a $4.99 monthly subscription via iPhone, iPad, Chromecast, www.fullscreen.com and select Android Phones. “This is for an audience that we know …
Two months into 2016, New York City seems even safer than ever — and yet, there’s a curious, crazy uptick in slashing attacks. That’s not funny. And yet, the first thing I thought of was a comedian, Doug Smith. Smith has thought of this, too. In 2011, the stand-up comedian …
How can you deal with depressing and dark subject matter and still find the laughs? Eddie Pepitone, describing his own views on comedy with Jessica Pilot in the latest installment of her webseries, “This is Stand-Up,” says he feels like a blue-collar worker clocking in for the night, except he’s …
Wondering what all the fuss is about regarding Louis CK’s new project, Horace and Pete? Here’s an explanation from the comedian and creator himself: Hello friend guy lady or other, Some of you are aware that, last Saturday, I launched a new series on my site louisck.net called “Horace and Pete”. …
Seeso continues to roll out new original streaming comedy series in its second month as a standalone paid subscription platform, announcing a March 17, 2016, start date for Bajillion Dollar Propertie$, Big Jay Oakerson’s What’s Your F@%king Deal?! and New York’s Funniest. The following week, Cameron Esposito’s debut stand-up special, Marriage …
“Yeah, that was a weird thing,” Zach Galifianakis told Conan O’Brien, almost two years after he had sat down with President Barack Obama for an installment of his Funny or Die series, Between Two Ferns. “I went to the White House before we shot it,” Galifianakis told O’Brien on Tuesday’s …
Eagle-eyed viewers of NBC News during Sunday night’s Democratic presidential candidate debate in South Carolina noticed a familiar canine puppet head bobbing behind NBC’s Chuck Todd. Triumph the Insult Comic Dog just photobombed Chuck Todd… #DemDebate pic.twitter.com/bJ8FfzygyO — Kate Sherrill MLS (@KateSherrill) January 18, 2016 And plenty of media folks …
