The Definitive Guide to Comedy
The Kennedy Center has announced there will be no Mark Twain Prize for American Humor in 2020, postponing the ceremony until June 2021 due to the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic. It’s the first time there will be no Mark Twain Prize given out since The Kennedy Center launched the prestigious honor …
Smosh became the first popular YouTube channel in 2005 and has remained among the most popular channels on YouTube ever since. It would take almost 15 years, however, before Smosh followed other YouTubers by embarking on its first live tour in February 2020, which ended just as the coronavirus pandemic …
Well, this should get interesting right quick. The first TBS Tournament of Laughs premieres tonight, and among the first matchups is Beth Stelling vs. Jeff Ross. Alrighty then! We’ll update this page with videos and results. But here are the brackets, and voting opens to the public at 10 p.m. …
Our hearts go out to not only comedian DL. Hughley, but also the staff at Zanies Nashville and the audience in attendance Friday night. Hughley, 57, was performing at Zanies on Friday night when he passed out in the middle of his set. Hughley’s “manager and security guard” had just …
Today is Juneteenth, and if you don’t know what that means in America, or for Black Americans, then comedians Dulcé Sloan and Amber Ruffin are here to help you, with these explainers they delivered last night on The Daily Show with Trevor Noah and Late Night with Seth Meyers, respectively. …
First the UCB closed up its doors in New York City. Now comes word that the Chicago theater that gave birth to the Upright Citizens Brigade also will not reopen. Charna Halpern, co-founder and still head improviser in charge of improvOlympic (aka iO), confirmed today that Chicago’s iO Theater will …
After years of Emmy-winning jokes about corporate influence in TV, followed by several more years off the air, the cast of NBC’s 30 Rock is reuniting this summer…all in the name of advertising NBCUniversal and Comcast’s Peacock streaming platform. “At NBCUniversal, we’re excited to produce an upfront that reflects a …
So far this month, the longtime CEO of The Second City has announced his resignation and asked the legendary Chicago theater to name a replacement from the BIPOC (Black, Indigenous and People of Color) community, while the four co-founders of the Upright Citizens Brigade theaters in New York City and …
Greg Warren grew up in St. Louis the son of a wrestling coach, and enjoyed a successful high-school and college wrestling career himself before he discovered stand-up comedy while still a student at the University of Missouri. Neither stints at West Point or Proctor & Gamble could sway Warren as …
You may have heard that some comedy clubs have begun reopening after three months since the COVID-19 pandemic forced most of America into self-quarantine. I haven’t seen any of the shows yet (since I’m based in New York City), but this is the first official footage I’ve seen of stand-up …
